Blogs

  • Sort & Cull

    Although the fed cash cattle market is trading lower, feeder cattle sales remain incredibly strong. (DTN ProphetX chart)

    Packers have slowly been able to build up supply, which is hindering the fed cash cattle market trade. However, thus far, that has not affected the feeder cattle market as buyers continue to buy calves at record-high prices.

  • Ag Policy Blog

    Farm groups wrote leaders of the U.S. Senate to raise concerns about Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley's proposed amendment to the budget reconciliation bill that would tighten eligibility for farm program payments. (DTN file photo)
    Posted by Jerry Hagstrom , DTN Political Correspondent

    Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, proposed an amendment to the budget reconciliation bill that would require more management or labor to qualify for farm programs. Nearly 50 farm groups representing most major commodities and the American Farm Bureau Federation and the...

  • Ag Weather Forum

    Humidity added to the atmosphere from corn can also enhance midsummer rainfall prospects. (DTN photo by Bryce Anderson)
    Posted by Bryce Anderson , Ag Meteorologist Emeritus

    Recent research points to increased midsummer rain prospects due to corn's humidity contribution.

  • Market Matters Blog

    DTN's weekly spot price for domestic distillers dried grains for the week ended June 26 is lower on average versus one week ago. (DTN file photo)
    Posted by Mary Kennedy , DTN Basis Analyst

    DTN's weekly average spot price for domestic distillers dried grains is lower versus one week ago.

  • Canada Markets

    The Statistics Canada June Principal Field Crop Areas report released Friday confirmed the canola market had indeed failed at one of its primary functions of encouraging supply with area not only declining from last year, but also from the March estimate. That should ensure supply will be uncomfortably tight for another year. (DTN chart, Statistics Canada data)
    Posted by Mitch Miller , DTN Contributing Canadian Grains Analyst

    With the canola market's failure to attract acres going into seeding, canola stocks should remain uncomfortably tight for another year.

  • Ethanol Blog

    A federal court issued a key ruling on ethanol this week in favor of agriculture groups. (DTN file photo by Joel Reichenberger)

    A federal court overturned a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 2024 rule that undervalued ethanol in fuel economy calculations, siding with corn and sorghum producers who argued the methodology was flawed.

  • Production Blog

    Kochia, a highly competitive weed that can reduce crop yields by as much as 70%, has been found in soybean fields in northwest Missouri. (DTN file photo)
    Posted by Jason Jenkins , DTN Crops Editor

    In what may likely be a first, kochia has been reported in soybean fields in northwest Missouri.

  • Fundamentally Speaking

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

    Average percent change in corn acreage from the March prospective plantings report to the June acreage figures for the top 18 producing states and the U.S. vs. the highest and lowest percent change from 2000 to 2024.

  • Technically Speaking

    This is a daily chart of December corn futures showing the vulnerable support area and little below that. (DTN ProphetX chart)
    Posted by Dana Mantini , Senior Market Analyst

    December corn on Monday is under severe pressure again and for about the eighth time is challenging the support area of $4.33 to $4.34. The more a chart point is challenged, the more vulnerable it becomes with each additional test. A look at the weekly version of the December...

  • Minding Ag's Business

    Join us for an exclusive webinar focused on the biggest near- and long-term trends in the cattle markets on June 24 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. CDT. (DTN image by Nick Scalise)

    Join Oklahoma State University Livestock Marketing Specialist Derrell Peel and DTN experts for an in-depth examination of cattle market dynamics, as well as what you can expect from weather and prices for the rest of the year.

  • An Urban's Rural View

    In the dot plot, the 19 members of the interest-rate-setting Federal Open Market Committee give their forecasts for the path of the Fed's benchmark federal funds rate. In the latest plot, 10 members see two cuts by the end of this year, two expect one cut and seven expect rates to remain at today's level between 4.25% and 4.5%. (Federal Open Market Committee graphic)

    Though the effects of tariff hikes have yet to show up in the inflation reports, the Federal Reserve expects to learn a lot more about their effects in the next few months. In the meantime, it's keeping its benchmark interest rate unchanged.

  • Editors' Notebook

    According to a recent informal, online DTN/Progressive Farmer poll as well as interviews with experts and national statistics, finding good ag labor is difficult these days. (Photo by Debra Ferguson)
    Posted by Anthony Greder , DTN/Progressive Farmer Content Manager

    Stemming from multiple factors, agricultural employers nationwide find hiring workers difficult, reflecting a widespread farm labor shortage.

  • MachineryLink

    CNH reports lower sales and moderate price increases as it releases first quarter 2025 financial results. (Image courtesy of Case-IH)

    CNH Industrial, parent company of Case IH and New Holland, forecasts lower ag sales and income for 2025, while also announcing a moderate price increase "in the low single digit(s)."

  • South America Calling

    The April forecast from DTN is calling for well-below-normal rainfall for the tail end of Brazil's wet season. (DTN graphic)
    Posted by John Baranick , DTN Meteorologist

    Soil moisture is below normal in many of Brazil's safrinha corn growing areas. A drier outlook for April puts that corn crop at a higher risk of drought and damage.

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