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19 Sep 2018
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Omaha-based Green Plains Inc. announced plans earlier this year to sell four to six ethanol plants as part of a plan to make the business more profitable. In response to a report by Reuters on Monday that the company had shut down plants, Green Plains CEO Todd Becker told DTN on Tuesday his company ha...
19 Sep 2018
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- In the latest round of tariffs, China responded Tuesday to the U.S. by announcing new 5% to 10% tariffs on $60 billion in U.S. goods after President Donald Trump late Monday announced similar tariffs on roughly $200 billion in goods from China effective Sept. 24. China did not provide a list of s...
18 Sep 2018
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- With rainfall totals in parts of North Carolina reaching as much as 36 inches since Thursday due to Hurricane Florence, a big chunk of rural North Carolina was largely marooned Monday with more than 1,000 roads closed in the state. Still, North Carolina Farm Bureau President Larry Wooten noted th...
18 Sep 2018
By Anthony GrederDTN Managing Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- In its first soybean harvest report of the season, USDA's National Ag Statistics Service estimated that 6% of the U.S. crop was harvested as of Sunday, Sept. 16, 3 percentage points ahead of the five-year average, according to the agency's weekly Crop Progress report released Monday. This year's s...
17 Sep 2018
By Todd HultmanDTN Analyst Each fall, when Lucy convinces Charlie Brown that he is supporting the great Thanksgiving tradition of kicking the football, we plead with him not to do it. Of course, Lucy wins out and Chuck ends up on his back, betrayed again by Lucy's dirty trick of pulling the ball away. No matter how many times Charlie tries and fail...