Blogs

  • Ag Weather Forum

    A band of incredibly heavy snow is forecast from Montana to northern Michigan through March 16. Some discrepancy is noted in the track, and the potential accumulations farther south across the Midwest. (DTN graphic)
    Posted by John Baranick , DTN Meteorologist

    A massive winter storm will roll through the northern tier of the country this weekend through March 16. Snowfall totals could be extremely large and break records while strong winds produce blizzard conditions. There are still many unknowns.

  • Market Matters Blog

    DTN's weekly spot price for domestic distillers dried grains for the week ended March 12 is up $5 on average versus one week ago. (DTN file photo)
    Posted by Mary Kennedy , DTN Basis Analyst

    DTN's weekly spot price for domestic distillers dried grains for the week ended March 12 is up $5 on average versus one week ago. (DTN file photo)

  • Production Blog

    Those growing spring or winter wheat, either irrigated or dryland, are encouraged to enter the 11th annual National Wheat Yield Contest. (DTN photo by Jason Jenkins)

    The 11th annual National Wheat Yield Contest expands participation options for both spring and winter wheat farmers raising grain under both irrigated and dryland scenarios.

  • Fundamentally Speaking

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

    U.S. export sales and shipments as of the first week in March as a percent of the USDA's March WASDE estimate vs. new crop sales also as of the first week in March as a percent of the USDA Ag Outlook Forum estimates given in late February.

  • An Urban's Rural View

    The new twist in the glyphosate controversy is that all three branches of the federal government are weighing in on it. (DTN file photo)

    The Trump administration and House Republicans are taking action to support glyphosate and the Supreme Court might join them.

  • Ag Policy Blog

    Jed Bower, an Ohio farmer and president of the National Corn Growers Association, testified in a U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee hearing on Tuesday about E15 legislation. Nearly every senator agreed they support E15, yet it's not directly under the committee's jurisdiction. (Photo from video livestream)

    Farmers highlighted E15, local food purchasing and tax credits for cotton at a U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee hearing focusing on how to boost domestic markets. Senators said they recognize the financial straits facing farmers due to input prices that continue to rise...

  • Canada Markets

    A picture is still worth a thousand words. One look at the updated CPI readings compared to the 1970s and it's vividly clear why some are concerned about a repeat. Especially given the crushing interest rate increases required to halt the advance. (DTN chart, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Data)
    Posted by Mitch Miller , DTN Contributing Canadian Grains Analyst

    A serious uptick expected in future CPI and PPI readings thanks to the Middle East conflict suggests the inflation relief seen over the last few years is over and a turn higher will be eerily similar to what occurred in the 1970s.

  • Sort & Cull

    With a strike looming at the JBS plant in Greeley, Colorado, the futures complex plummeted lower on Monday. (DTN ProphetX Chart)

    The notion of a looming strike does not bode well for the cattle complex as fear and uncertainty unravel both the market's fundamental and technical components.

  • South America Calling

    Soil moisture anomalies computed via satellite from NOAA depict below-normal levels just as safrinha corn planting is running slower than normal. (NOAA graphic)

    Safrinha corn planting is slightly behind schedule, a large concern with limited soil moisture and only about two months of the wet season left.

  • Editors' Notebook

    Pics, or it didn't happen. The author, about to turn as blue as the 47-year-old jacket he managed to pry on. (DTN photo courtesy of Greg D. Horstmeier)
    Posted by Greg D Horstmeier , DTN Editor-in-Chief

    The intimidation tactics becoming all-too familiar in politics today have now reached a trusted institution in agriculture: The FFA. Enough's enough.

  • Ethanol Blog

    The owner of a Florida biodiesel company pleaded guilty to wire fraud among other crimes in connection with a Renewable Fuel Standard scheme. (Getty Images photo)

    Christopher Burdett pleaded guilty to generating $7 million in fraudulent renewable fuel credits by vastly overstating biodiesel production, as part of Renewable Fuel Standard scheme.

  • Technically Speaking

    The chart above is a daily chart of March corn futures showing plenty of overhead resistance. (DTN ProphetX chart)
    Posted by Dana Mantini , Senior Market Analyst

    While the corn market has reacted in a positive manner from the renewed concern about dryness in the southern half of Argentina, the sharp fall in the U.S. dollar, rise in crude oil and recent talk about a policy in favor of year-round E15, there are some technical roadblocks...

  • Minding Ag's Business

    Determine your price and time action points based on your operation's cost of production and cash-flow needs. (Photo by Michael Westhoff, Getty Images)
    Posted by Katie Micik Dehlinger , Progressive Farmer Editor-in-Chief

    Commodities brokers advise farmers to develop disciplined grain marketing plans based on production costs, stick to price targets, seek professional guidance and utilize futures and options for effective risk management.

  • MachineryLink

    The Space Weather Prediction Center has issued a Severe G4 geomagnetic storm watch, the result of a coronal mass ejection (CME) that left the sun on Jan. 18 that is anticipated to arrive at Earth as early as late Jan. 19 (EST) to early Jan. 20. (DTN image courtesy of NOAA)
    Posted by Dan Miller , Progressive Farmer Senior Editor

    A G4 geomagnetic storm may degrade satellite navigation for some hours and disrupt low-frequency radio navigation. But given this is January and not the middle of spring planting, this storm if it arrives will have negligible effect on U.S. farms.

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