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8 Jun 2018
By Todd HultmanDTN Analyst OMAHA (DTN) -- This week's export sales report should be viewed as bearish for wheat and soybeans and neutral for corn and milo, according to DTN Analyst Todd Hultman. Weekly export sales of corn showed a total of 49.5 million bushels (mb) (1,256,900 metric tons) with 33.0 mb (838,600 mt) for the 2017-2018 marketing year....
8 Jun 2018
By Jerry HagstromDTN Political Correspondent WASHINGTON (DTN) -- Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and ranking member Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., said early Thursday that their committee will mark up a new farm bill on Wednesday, June 13. The markup of the five-year bill will be held at 9:30 a.m. in Room 328A of the Russell S...
8 Jun 2018
By Jerry HagstromDTN Political Correspondent WASHINGTON (DTN) -- Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and ranking member Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., said early Thursday that their committee will mark up a new farm bill on Wednesday, June 13. The markup of the five-year bill will be held at 9:30 a.m. in Room 328A of the Russell S...
8 Jun 2018
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, MD. (DTN) -- Today, Bayer became the sole owner of Monsanto. Both companies will continue to operate as separate entities for another two months, while Bayer sheds the $9 billion in assets regulators required it divest. Only then will the Monsanto name be retired, and the new Bayer emerge. What will i...
7 Jun 2018
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Average retail fertilizer prices finally began to decline the fourth week of May 2018 as spring application wrapped up, according to retailers surveyed by DTN. After weeks of prices for a few fertilizers moving slightly lower and then rising again, this is the first week most fertilizer prices are lowe...