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EPA is expected to officially announce on Monday a settlement with Growth Energy that will require the agency to propose 2023 Renewable Fuel Standard volumes by Sept. 16.

This study looks at recent weather maps indicating wet springs, along with Statistics Canada's summerfallow acre estimates and the change in seeded acres from the March Intentions report to the final acres reported in December.

It's been a tough 2022 for U.S. farmers in the market for equipment. Farm equipment prices -- new and used -- are only going up while supplies are going down.

Demand for labor is strong, but the labor force participation rate still hasn't returned to where it was before the pandemic. Should the boomers be blamed?

DTN's weekly average spot price for domestic distillers dried grains was $17 lower on average versus two weeks ago.

Low hay and pasture supply could force extensive western U.S. cow herd liquidation.

Southern Brazil has escaped the greatest risk of frost this week thanks to cloud cover and elevated winds. Skies clear out and calm down for Friday and Saturday, which may still bring morning frost to portions of southern Brazil's safrinha corn crop.

Long-term CME soybean meal/corn ratio on per ton basis with average and plus and minus one and two standard deviations from January 1990 to the present.

The House Agriculture Committee advanced several bills in areas, including a bill that would create a special investigator office at USDA to investigate meatpacking market manipulation issues.

Over the weekend, more bad news emerged for world wheat markets. Just days after USDA projected India wheat production to be nearly record high and India wheat exports to reach a record high 8.5 mmt (312 mb), India chose to ban all wheat exports beginning in July. The net...

Packers know that the market favors their position for now, but when the cattle that are currently fed get worked through, the cash market is going to drastically change to favor feedlots.

Pulses, such as dry peas, are being tested in some rotations as farmers look for ways to reduce use of nitrogen.

A recent report from the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City finds that a record number of operating loans surpassed $1 million in the first quarter of 2022, reflecting soaring prices for inputs.

During an international video meeting of agricultural journalists this week, a Ukrainian ag journalist gave a glimpse of some of the challenges farmers as well as journalists are facing in his country after the Russian invasion.