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Soil conditions are awfully dry to start out the 2024-25 campaign in much of Argentina and Brazil. The weather pattern during the next couple of weeks is not favorable for very many down there.

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

Nebraska's governor has signed an executive order banning state agencies from buying lab-grown protein products and create a new rule to add more labels for those products. Three other states have either banned the sale of lab-grown meats or added similar restrictions.

Biofuels groups filed public comments in response to California's proposed amendments to the low-carbon fuel standard.

Old crop soybean sales and shipments as a percent of the August old crop export estimate vs. new crop sales as a percent of the August new crop export estimate, both as of the third week in August.

Overall weather conditions for much of the country's Corn Belt should be relatively warm and dry. That is good news for those ready to harvest, but may not be what all folks need. La Nina is forecast to make an appearance and could disrupt that pattern, as well.

There are still a plethora of external pressures looming overhead of the cattle complex, but maybe, just maybe, the market showed some effort and desire to press onward as Monday's market closed with higher prices.

One person can make a difference as an advocate for a worthy cause. No one is too young or too old to make a difference and be a Voice for Agriculture.

Different versions of industrial policy can have very different implications for agriculture.

November soybeans have been battered and beaten up. The market was already reeling when USDA came up with one million additional acres of soybeans planted and a record yield of 53.2 bpa. In the past few weeks, soybeans have registered new contract lows as funds reveled in...

For Alberta, in the provincial early yield estimates, regional dryland crop yield estimates are at or below the 5- and 10-year averages, with the exception of a higher-than-average yield expectation reported for the South Region as of July 30. In Saskatchewan, as of July 29, the...

It takes 4 to 6 weeks after planting for SCN females to begin appearing on soybean root surfaces. It is an early clue that you need to do more testing.

The Space Weather Prediction Center has issued a minor-level geomagnetic storm watch for this weekend. A storm of this intensity will have little to no impact on farming guidance systems.

On Friday, June 14, DTN will host a webinar examining the cattle market's long-term outlook and how producers can use livestock risk protection insurance to protect their business from downside market risk.