Blogs

  • Canada Markets

    The amount of soybean oil used in the production of biofuel is expected to increase by a whopping 3.25 billion pounds in 2025-26 from 2024-25 levels thanks to recent legislative changes, according to USDA estimates. As a result, exports will have to fall sharply with it being the market's job to ensure the relative price is strong enough to enforce it. (DTN chart, USDA data)
    Posted by Mitch Miller , DTN Contributing Canadian Grains Analyst

    The July WASDE report reflected USDA's expectations based on the implementation of the budget bill changes. An unprecedented 7 cent per pound increase in the estimate of the average annual cash price demonstrates how significant the changes are.

  • Ag Policy Blog

    In a congressional hearing on Tuesday, California's state veterinarian stressed the need for developing a vaccine for dairy cattle against highly pathogenic avian influenza. Veterinarian and national testing lab leaders also talked about the risks from the New World Screwworm as well. (DTN file photo)
    Posted by Jerry Hagstrom , DTN Political Correspondent

    In a House Agriculture Subcommittee hearing on Tuesday, state and federal veterinarians talked about some of the risks from highly pathogenic avian influenza and the New World Screwworm.

  • Minding Ag's Business

    As demand for farm loans continues to grow, lenders report plenty of funding is available to meet the demand. (Chart courtesy of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City)

    While more farmers are leaning on bank financing for 2025, others are finding it tough to stay in business. Farm banks are well-situated to support increased loan demand as capital levels and profitability grew in 2024.

  • Ag Weather Forum

    Temperatures in the extended range suggest higher readings for late July across the South, which may extend northward as we get into August. (DTN graphic)
    Posted by John Baranick , DTN Meteorologist

    The weather through much of the U.S. east of the Rockies has been active with seasonable temperatures. But a ridge developing over the South this week could be the catalyst for major changes the rest of summer.

  • Production Blog

    These dried corn ears may look odd, but miracles such as the gene that makes roasting ears super sweet can lie within. The lab that delivered this tasty treat and many other innovations is now in jeopardy from budget cuts. (Photo by Lauren Quinn, University of Illinois)
    Posted by Pamela Smith , Crops Technology Editor

    The University of Illinois lab responsible for innovations such as short stature corn and super sweet varieties of sweet corn is in jeopardy of closure. A vital soybean seed lab is also on the proposed closure list.

  • Market Matters Blog

    Koznitza is docked at CHS Elevator on June 17 as it loads spring wheat bound for Italy. Built in 1936, CHS Superior, Wisconsin, is the largest grain shipper in the Duluth-Superior port, handling about 60% to 70% of the port's total grain volume. (Photo courtesy of Schauer Photo Images)

    CHS Inc. announced it is permanently closing its Superior, Wisconsin, grain terminal, the largest in the Port of Duluth-Superior.

  • Sort & Cull

    Although boxed beef prices traded lower last week, both the live cattle and feeder cattle markets ran to new contract highs. (DTN ProphetX chart)

    Limited supplies and strong demand have been the biggest reasons why both the live cattle and feeder cattle markets have traded higher, and why for now the market will likely remain strong.

  • An Urban's Rural View

    In his first half year as Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has proposed some commendable changes in food policy and some less commendable ones. ((File screenshot of livestream video of Senate Committee on Health, Labor, Education and Pensions hearing)
    Posted by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus

    As presidential candidate, Donald Trump promised to make Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Secretary of Health and Human Services and said he'd let Kennedy "go wild on the food." And so Kennedy has.

  • Ethanol Blog

    Biofuels groups on Tuesday weighed in on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Renewable Fuel Standard volumes proposal. (DTN photo by Joel Reichenberger)

    Biofuels groups praise EPA's "strongest-ever" RFS proposal, while urging proper handling of small-refinery exemptions to maintain the 15-billion-gallon commitment.

  • Fundamentally Speaking

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

    Soybean oil's percent contribution of the combined soybean crush value over the past 30 years along with the average and plus and minus one and two standard deviation lines.

  • MachineryLink

    AGCO's Trimble PTx brand is adding Fendt tractors and tillage functions to its award-winning OutRun autonomous technology, a solution already giving farmers an automated grain cart capability. (Photo courtesy of AGCO Trimble PTx)
    Posted by Dan Miller , Progressive Farmer Senior Editor

    DTN/Progressive Farmer recently talked with Trimble PTx Senior Product Manager Dinen Subramaniam about Trimble PTx's award-winning OutRun autonomous technology. Available now as an autonomous grain cart solution, Trimble PTx is adding tillage functions and AGCO-brand Fendt...

  • 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...

  • 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.

  • 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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