
Minneapolis wheat has recovered 50% of the selloff from all-time highs in 2008.
Reversing earlier losses, oil futures nearest delivery on the New York Mercantile Exchange and Brent crude traded on the Intercontinental...
As renewable diesel demand increases, more soybeans will be needed. Here are some of the projections for soybean acreage and yield, as well as...
Farmers Marc Arnusch of Keenesburg, Colorado, and Luke Garrabrant of Johnstown, Ohio, are reporting on crop conditions and agricultural topics...
Dana Mantini is a senior market analyst for DTN, and has 30-plus years of experience in the commodity futures industry.
Dana began as a wheat buyer and cash grain merchandiser for major flour millers, General Mills and International Multifoods. He was an independent member of the Kansas City Board of Trade, and spent 15 years as a broker/trader there. He has been hedge desk manager at Koch Industries (Koch Ag), and a commodity broker for Prudential Securities in Kansas City. He joined DeBruce Grain in 2001 as the Hedge Desk Manager, and did all of the futures/options trading, all of the hedging, spreading and initiated and managed a new farm contract program. Facilitated multiple farmer outlook meetings each year. DeBruce Grain managed 140 million bushels of storage capacity, and had 10-consecutive record-profit years before Gavilon acquired DeBruce in late 2010. Dana moved to Omaha in July 2012 to join Gavilon, first as a proprietary futures/options trader and then worked with Gavilon Producer Solutions, writing three times daily market wires, and advising producers on marketing.
It was the love of analyzing, interpreting, educating and writing that drove me to the open analyst position at DTN.
Dana graduated from Amherst College with a major in Economics, where he played baseball and basketball.
He is married to Ruthanne -- a certified pilates instructor -- and has two daughters -- Anna, 19 (sophomore at UNL), and Maggie, 16, (junior at Marian HS).
Minneapolis wheat has recovered 50% of the selloff from all-time highs in 2008.
Just one trading day removed from reaching an all-time high price, active July bean oil futures plunged early Monday. Clarification from Indonesia regarding last week's announced ban on palm oil...
The highlight of the May 12 USDA WASDE report turned out to be wheat, featuring a greater-than-expected drop in both U.S. and world stocks, sending all three wheat futures markets briefly up the daily limit, before setting back.
The WASDE report released Friday featured some bearish news for corn and wheat, yet both markets rallied sharply, with new-crop December corn printing a new contract high for the fifth time in the last seven trading sessions...
USDA's March 1 Grain Stocks and Prospective Planting reports threw a curveball to traders. Corn seeding intentions were much lower than expected, and soybean seeding intentions were the opposite -- both moving 3.8 million to 3.9...
The March 2022 WASDE report had few major surprises in it, but long liquidation continued for wheat following the mildly bearish wheat portion of the report, sending wheat to limit down. The corn and soybean parts of the report...