Blogs

  • Market Matters Blog

    The April full moon lit the way to prepare for the start of spring wheat planting in Crookston, Minnesota. (Photo by Tim Dufault)
    Posted by Mary Kennedy , DTN Basis Analyst

    Planting this spring started early in parts of the U.S Upper Midwest as weather conditions during April were favorable for most farmers to plant spring wheat, small grains and get a start on corn and even soybeans.

  • Technically Speaking

    This is a daily chart of Kansas City July wheat. April 28 marked the eighth consecutive trading session of higher prices. Above the market should be formidable resistance and overbought momentum indicators. (DTN ProphetX chart)
    Posted by Dana Mantini , Senior Market Analyst

    Kansas City new-crop wheat meandered within a 40-cent range for two consecutive months and appeared to have little chance of a breakout of that sideways pattern. That is until just eight days ago. Since then, the rally has not paused. Ultra-short-managed money funds and...

  • Canada Markets

    Canada's total production of principal grains (wheat, durum, oats, barley, corn) is forecast to increase by 4.9 percent to 61.4 million metric tons (mmt) over the previous year on an additional 1.7 mmt of wheat production, according to USDA's recently released the Canada Grain and Feed Annual report. (DTN file photo by Elaine Shein)
    Posted by Mary Kennedy , DTN Basis Analyst

    It was a busy week with various reports for Canada Agriculture of weekly exports, canola crush and other important information.

  • Production Blog

    This year's View From the Cab farmers will report in from Idaho and Kentucky throughout the growing season. (Lakey photo courtesy of Dan Lakey; Pottinger photo by Leah Pottinger)
    Posted by Pamela Smith , Crops Technology Editor

    Follow us to Idaho and Kentucky to meet the farmers who will participate in DTN's View From the Cab series this season.

  • Ag Weather Forum

    Despite a more active pattern that has brought some needed precipitation in some areas in April, drought conditions based upon the Palmer Drought Index suggest that drought is still a big issue throughout most of the region. (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada graphic)
    Posted by John Baranick , DTN Meteorologist

    An active storm track in and around the Canadian Prairies won't bring a lot of needed precipitation, but may keep producers out of their fields.

  • MachineryLink

    Gerrit Marx has been named the incoming CEO at CNH Industrial. (Photo courtesy of Iveco Group)

    In this Equipment Roundup, DTN/Progressive Farmer looks at the latest Association of Equipment Manufacturers report on tractor sales, the new CEO of CNH Industrial and AGCO's recent recipient of the 2024 Women MAKE Award.

  • Ag Policy Blog

    Migrant workers in a North Carolina tobacco field. The Department of Labor on Friday issued new rules for farmer employers that Labor officials say would product farmworkers from potential abuse. (DTN File Photo
    Posted by Chris Clayton , DTN Ag Policy Editor

    The new rule for employing H-2A agricultural guest workers includes several provisions, including allowing workers to talk about labor organzing or choosing not to attend employer-led meetings that are meant to discourage workers from joining unions. There are also new...

  • Fundamentally Speaking

    Chart by Joel Karlin, DTN Contributing Analyst
    Posted by Joel Karlin , DTN Contributing Analyst

    Five-, ten- and twenty-year average weekly CME soybean crush margins in dollars per bushel vs. the weekly 2024 values

  • Sort & Cull

    Recent work by the Iowa Cattlemen's Association and Iowa Farm Bureau will help save producers tax money. (DTN/Progressive Farmer photo by Jennifer Carrico)
    Posted by Jennifer Carrico , Senior Livestock Editor

    Farmers and ranchers are always looking for the right organization to belong to who will support them as a member. The Iowa Cattlemen's Association and Iowa Farm Bureau recently showed what they are doing for their members through work at the Iowa Capitol.

  • South America Calling

    Wet weather during the last 30 days has caused all sorts of issues for the maturing and harvest of the corn and soybean crops in Argentina. (DTN graphic)
    Posted by John Baranick , DTN Meteorologist

    The corn and soybean crop in Argentina had looked really good for most of the growing season. But late wetness has led to issues with pests, disease, the inability for the crop to mature properly, and especially harvest.

  • Minding Ag's Business

    AcreValue's Market Explorer tool shows a heat map of farmland sales for any state nationwide. Above shows Illinois's sales since 2021, with darker purple showing higher-values land sales. (Map courtesy of AcreValue)
    Posted by Katie Micik Dehlinger , Farm Business Editor

    Farmland analytics company AcreValue simplifies land research by making title records easy to search and weaving them together to show broader trends.

  • An Urban's Rural View

    War games indicate that in a Taiwan Strait conflict, the U.S. would run out of long-range, precision-guided munitions like this Patriot missile in less than a week. (Photo by Frank Trevino, Public Domain)
    Posted by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus

    The U.S. won World War II in large part because of its ability to out-manufacture its enemies. Today China is the world's manufacturing powerhouse.

  • Ethanol Blog

    The head of the Renewable Fuels Association asked USDA to reconsider a decision to stop reporting county-level crops data. (NASS logo)

    The head of the Renewable Fuels Association asked USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service to reconsider a decision to stop reporting county-level farm data.

  • Editors' Notebook

    Posted by Greg D Horstmeier , DTN Editor-in-Chief

    March 19 is National Ag Day in the U.S. DTN hopes you'll join us to recognize and celebrate the many benefits agriculture brings to our nation, to our overall economy, and to the world.

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