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11 Apr 2018
By Mary KennedyDTN Cash Grains Analyst The National Grain and Feed Association (NGFA), with assistance from the North American Millers Association (NAMA), alerted the Surface Transportation Board (STB) on March 10 of major concerns it had received from rail-service customers. These included severe rail service problems and excessive charges involvi...
11 Apr 2018
By DTN Staff OMAHA (DTN) -- U.S. winter wheat condition worsened last week, according to USDA's latest weekly Crop Progress report issued Monday. For the week ended April 8, 2018, winter wheat was rated only 30% in good-to-excellent condition, down 2 percentage points from 32% the previous week and well below 53% at the same time last year. It is t...
11 Apr 2018
By Darin NewsomDTN Senior Analyst As I've mentioned before, DTN holds a meeting to discuss what could be seen in upcoming USDA reports before those called to duty head off to the lockup in Washington, D.C. For the April set of Crop Production and Supply and Demand reports, the conversation centered on two topics: South American corn and soybean pro...
9 Apr 2018
By Mary KennedyDTN Cash Grains Analyst OMAHA (DTN) -- The average distillers dried grains (DDG) spot price from the 39 locations where DTN collected bids was $162 for the week ended April 5, up $3 versus a week ago. The domestic and export markets remain firm. Prices in California rose as supplies are tight in that area. A merchandiser told me that...
9 Apr 2018
By John HarringtonDTN Livestock Analyst Long before there was George Lucas, J.K. Rowling or Michael Crichton, there was Jules Verne. He was one of my favorite boyhood storytellers and considered by many to be the father of science fiction literature. My grandfather was a major Verne-geek (back when those types were just politely called "a little di...