Blogs

  • Sort & Cull

    On Monday, Oct. 6, the market may have been able to close $5.00 higher without a major driving force. But someday in the future, the market will also likely tumble $5.00 without much of a reason. (DTN ProphetX chart)

    In today's environment, it seems the increased daily trading limits have had an inflation effect on the market. Seeing a $1.00-move five years ago was normal. Today, the market sees a daily movement of $3.00 to $4.00 with the same $1.00 regard.

  • Production Blog

    Put soil testing for soybean cyst nematode (SCN) on your fall agenda and outsmart this yield threat. (DTN photo by Jason Jenkins)
    Posted by Pamela Smith , Crops Technology Editor

    It's National Nematode Day. What do you know about this yield threat?

  • Market Matters Blog

    Soft red winter wheat harvest in June in Clarksville, Tennessee. U.S. Wheat Associates reported the 2025 soft red winter wheat crop, including Tennessee production, generally showed good quality with strong milling characteristics and market value, despite weather challenges that led to uneven results in some areas. (DTN photo by Mary Kennedy)
    Posted by Mary Kennedy , DTN Basis Analyst

    The U.S. 2025 hard red winter, soft red winter and soft white winter wheat crops proved to be good quality for the milling and export industry.

  • South America Calling

    Central Brazil producers are significantly ahead of schedule in planting soybeans (red line). (IMEA graphic)
    Posted by John Baranick , DTN Meteorologist

    The official start of the wet season has central Brazil producers going full bore on soybean planting, but a continued dry weather forecast threatens those plants.

  • Ag Policy Blog

    A farm worker moves a crate during onion harvest near Brawley, Calif., earlier this year. The Labor Department has issued a new rule that will lower H-2A worker costs by roughly $2.5 billion per year. (DTN photo by Chris Clayton)

    A new Labor Department rule lowers the Adverse Effect Wage Rate methodology for H-2A workers. The wage changes in the interim final rule published in the Federal Register will save H-2A employers $2.46 billion per year.

  • Editors' Notebook

    A simple family recipe stirs up memories of why tradition and taste are often connected. (DTN photo by Pamela Smith)
    Posted by Pamela Smith , Crops Technology Editor

    Discovering a long-ago family recipe brings back fond memories of food and how it connects us.

  • Ethanol Blog

    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has asked at least one federal court to hold biofuels cases in abeyance during the current government shutdown. (DTN file photo by Joel Reichenberger)
    Posted by Todd Neeley , DTN Environmental Editor

    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency filed multiple requests to hold biofuels litigation in abeyance because of the federal government shutdown.

  • Canada Markets

    With the amount of soybean oil used in biofuel production expected to increase by 3.25 billion pounds in 2025-26 from 2024-25 levels, exports will have to fall sharply, and it is the market's job to ensure the relative price is strong enough to enforce that. As you can see by this chart, that may not be happening as the premium to palm oil declines. (DTN ProphetX chart)
    Posted by Mitch Miller , DTN Contributing Canadian Grains Analyst

    With soybean oil used in biofuel production set to soar in 2025-26 (assuming a short government shutdown), there is no room for exports to see a repeat of last year's surge. Yet the market may be allowing it.

  • An Urban's Rural View

    There's a generation gap in Americans' support for freedom of speech. (Image by Ed Uthman, CC-BY-SA-2.0)
    Posted by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus

    A survey shows younger Americans are more willing than their elders to accept violence as a response to offensive speech.

  • Ag Weather Forum

    Rainfall totaling 200% to 300% of normal covered most of central and western Kansas in September. Resulting root zone soil moisture is abundant for early growth of winter wheat. (High Plains Regional Climate Center and NASA GRACE soil moisture project graphics)
    Posted by Bryce Anderson , Ag Meteorologist Emeritus

    Soil moisture is rated wet over high-production Kansas winter wheat districts as the new winter wheat cycle begins.

  • MachineryLink

    AGCO is looking for technologies that will make alternative fuels more practical in U.S. farming operations. Shown here is AGCO's Fendt e100 V Vario tractor, available now in Europe, and coming to targeted U.S. markets next year. (Photo courtesy of AGCO)
    Posted by Dan Miller , Progressive Farmer Senior Editor

    AGCO is looking at a range of alternative fuels to accommodate different farmer needs across the globe. At the lower horsepower end, it is examining uses for electrification. AGCO is looking at applications for larger machinery, not yet commercially available, but powered by other...

  • Fundamentally Speaking

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

    Percent that USDA's September 1 corn in all stocks estimate deviated from the average trade estimate and percent change in the USDA's old crop U.S. corn ending stocks estimate from the September to October WASDE reports vs. percent of Sep 1 corn stocks stored on...

  • Minding Ag's Business

    Washington forage grower Andrew Eddie learned so much from TEPAP that he's attended three times in the past few years. (DTN/Progressive Farmer file photo by Joel Reichenberger)

    Success requires continuous improvement, and there's no better program than TEPAP. Applications for the week-long business bootcamp are due Oct. 31.

  • Technically Speaking

    This is a daily chart of November soybean futures showing key moving averages just below. (DTN ProphetX chart)
    Posted by Dana Mantini , Senior Market Analyst

    The jury is still out on the 2025 soybean crop; but a decision may be close at hand. Dryness in parts of the southern and eastern Midwest in August might very well have compromised yield to some extent. However, there is a far bigger issue facing soybean growers and...

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