Blogs

  • Market Matters Blog

    DTN's weekly spot price for domestic distillers dried grains for the week ended May 21 is down $1 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 slightly lower versus one week ago.

  • Production Blog

    Asian copperleaf seedlings in the left photo have round cotyledons and opposite first leaves. The photo to the right shows vegetative Asian copperleaf plants growing in a soybean field. (Photos by Meaghan Anderson, Iowa State University Extension and Outreach)

    A new weed is showing up in Iowa and Illinois, and farmers are being asked to watch for it this season.

  • Ag Weather Forum

    Heavy rainfall is forecast across a lot of the U.S. South and Southeast with still good amounts in parts of the West and Plains. (DTN graphic)
    Posted by John Baranick , DTN Meteorologist

    Heavy rainfall will help ease many areas of drought across the U.S. through the end of May.

  • Ag Policy Blog

    A trade update from North Dakota State University's Center for Agricultural Policy and Trade shows the impact of lost export sales to China from March 2026 through February 2026. Soybeans took the brunt of the trade retaliation, accounting for more than half of the lost sales. (Chart from NDSU report)
    Posted by Chris Clayton , DTN Ag Policy Editor

    While the White House touts that China has agreed to buy $17 billion in agricultural commodities under an agreement reached last week, a new report shows U.S. agricultural exports to China fell by $14.9 billion during much of the past year.

  • Technically Speaking

    The chart above is a daily chart of July soybean futures, which really gives no hint as to which direction it will take. (DTN ProphetX chart)
    Posted by Dana Mantini , Senior Market Analyst

    Over the next several weeks, spot July soybean futures could move in either direction with both bullish and bearish factors likely to assure continued volatility in the weeks and months ahead. Iran, China and large speculators could all have a say in which direction soybeans...

  • An Urban's Rural View

    This much-discussed new book arrives at some surprising conclusions about how agriculture can help fight global warming. (Photo of cover by Urban C. Lehner)
    Posted by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus

    Michael Grunwald's "We're Eating the Earth" argues the best thing agriculture can do to fight climate change is leave land wild.

  • Canada Markets

    Following years of China's domestic corn consumption exceeding its production, ending stocks (with 2026-27 in green) are falling rather significantly due to the lack of imports to compensate for it. (DTN chart, USDA data)
    Posted by Mitch Miller , DTN Contributing Canadian Grains Analyst

    Should China fulfill its commitment to purchase additional U.S. ag products as announced following Trump's visit, corn would certainly be a sensible option.

  • Ethanol Blog

    Poet LLC announced it is getting closer to full operation of thermal energy storage at its ethanol plant in Big Stone City, South Dakota. (DTN file photo)

    Poet LLC and Antora have commissioned a 5-gigawatt-hour thermal battery system at Poet's Big Stone City, South Dakota, ethanol plant.

  • Fundamentally Speaking

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

    Percent the U.S. winter wheat yield deviates from the 25-year trend vs. U.S. winter wheat crop ratings.

  • Sort & Cull

    With next week a holiday-shortened week and the Cattle on Feed report set to be released Friday, the cattle complex may not see as much support from traders. (DTN ProphetX chart)
    Posted by ShayLe Stewart , DTN Livestock Analyst

    The cash cattle market has been on fire lately. But with a holiday-shortened week coming up and the futures up against resistance pressure, feedlots may not see as much interest from packers this week as they have over the last month.

  • Editors' Notebook

    The April 2026 issue of Progressive Farmer magazine focused on the challenges facing rural America and what some communities are doing to survive. Those stories will run on DTN/PF's digital platforms over the next few weeks. (AI-generated illustration from a concept by Katie Dehlinger)
    Posted by Anthony Greder , DTN/Progressive Farmer Content Manager

    DTN/Progressive Farmer examines the challenges facing rural America and the solutions some communities are embracing to succeed, in a series titled "Rural Resilience."

  • MachineryLink

    A University of Missouri diesel cost study shows 50% higher diesel fuel prices cut expected net returns to land by 10%. (DTN photo by Dan Miller)
    Posted by Dan Miller , Progressive Farmer Senior Editor

    In this equipment roundup, DTN/Progressive Farmer looks at high diesel costs hitting returns; March equipment sales down; reports that Cat buys Monarch technology; Fieldwork Robotics readying an autonomous picker; new equipment from KIOTI and Loftness; and Kubota offering...

  • South America Calling

    The last month of the wet season does not look particularly wet for Brazil. (DTN graphic)
    Posted by John Baranick , DTN Meteorologist

    Yet another month of below-normal precipitation puts into question how much corn Brazil can produce with its safrinha crop.

  • 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.

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