Blogs

  • Minding Ag's Business

    Serving prime rib for the holidays can have sentimental and economic benefits. (DTN photo by Katie Dehlinger)
    Posted by Katie Micik Dehlinger , Farm Business Editor

    DTN's Senior Farm Business Editor Katie Dehlinger enjoys preparing prime rib for Christmas and she makes arguments for the emotional attachment and practical benefits of doing so.

  • Canada Markets

    My Happy Place -- complete with more cherished memories than I could ever have hoped for, and the opportunity to create many more. May everyone have such a gift. (DTN photo by Mitch Miller)
    Posted by Mitch Miller , DTN Contributing Canadian Grains Analyst

    May the holidays bring the focus back on what truly is important in life. With that perspective helping to offset the daily stresses one must navigate.

  • Ag Policy Blog

    USDA's headquarters building caused controversy by putting up a banner with President Donald Trump on it in May 2025. A new report highlights USDA agencies cut more than 20,000 jobs in less than six months. (DTN file photo by Jerry Hagstrom)

    A new report from USDA's Office of Inspector General points out more than 20,000 employees across every agency left USDA in the first half of 2025. Most of the job losses were through a buyout program. The cuts hit some agencies harder than others.

  • Sort & Cull

    The Christmas holiday may be looming, but traders actively worked to push both the live cattle and feeder cattle contracts higher through Monday's close. (DTN ProphetX chart)
    Posted by ShayLe Stewart , DTN Livestock Analyst

    More than anything, I believe traders' positive interaction throughout the marketplace on Monday again shows hard evidence their core desire is to push the contracts higher as they know and understand the market's long-term, bullish fundamental position.

  • An Urban's Rural View

    The car carrier RCC America being lifted in the second step of the Panama Canal's Miraflores locks. (DTN photo by Urban C. Lehner)
    Posted by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus

    The Panama Canal affords the world enormous economic benefits, yet most of us take it for granted. Understanding how it works and what it took to build it is a useful tonic.

  • Ag Weather Forum

    The Southern Plains drought monitor of Dec. 16, 2025, shows more than 37% of the region with no drought. In contrast, more than 96% of the region was in drought in August 2022, during the peak of the 2020-2025 drought. (Drought Monitor graphic)
    Posted by Bryce Anderson , Ag Meteorologist Emeritus

    Significant losses in wheat, cotton and livestock occurred during the Southern Plains five-year drought.

  • Market Matters Blog

    DTN's weekly spot price for domestic distillers dried grains for the week ended Dec. 18 is $3 higher on average 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 higher versus one week ago.

  • South America Calling

    Soil moisture across most of South America's primary growing areas is in fair condition or improving heading into the most important few months of the season. (NOAA graphic)

    Though it hasn't been perfect by any means, the weather situation in South America generally remains favorable for crops.

  • Ethanol Blog

    Two refining companies appealed small-refinery exemption decisions made by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in two separate appeals courts. (DTN file photo by Joel Reichenberger)

    Refining companies filed appeals on recent small-refinery exemptions decisions by the Trump administration in two different federal appeals courts, despite a Supreme Court ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit was the proper venue.

  • Editors' Notebook

    This week we start our countdown of the 10 most influential issues and events affecting agriculture in 2025. (DTN image)
    Posted by Greg D Horstmeier , DTN Editor-in-Chief

    In the coming days, DTN will begin our annual review of the top 10 issues and events that we believe influenced agriculture in 2025.

  • Technically Speaking

    This is a daily chart of March futures showing a key moving average and trend line just below. (DTN ProphetX chart)
    Posted by Dana Mantini , Senior Market Analyst

    March corn, having fallen 20 cents recently, is facing a crossroads of sorts, hovering just above the 100-day moving average and moving sideways in a consolidation phase. How will the next several weeks play out? There are conflicting fundamental and technical factors, making...

  • Production Blog

    View From the Cab farmers Ethan Zoerb and Stuart Sanderson have finished harvest and their season of reporting in as part of DTN's project. It's time to look forward to 2026. (DTN photo courtesy of Ethan Zoerb)
    Posted by Pamela Smith , Crops Technology Editor

    The cab door is open. Apply for a chance to tell your farm's story as part of DTN's ongoing project called View From the Cab.

  • Fundamentally Speaking

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

    2025 soybean yields for the top 18 producing states and the U.S. vs. the percent that this year's yield deviates from the 25-year trend and the percent change vs. the 2024 final yield.

  • MachineryLink

    Preliminary numbers from equipment manufacturers show sales of all tractors, especially large four-wheel-drive tractors, were down sharply in October, compared to October 2024. Sales of combines were off by more than 25% October 2025 compared to October 2024. (Photo courtesy of Case IH)
    Posted by Dan Miller , Progressive Farmer Senior Editor

    As has been true for many months, 2025 compared to the same month in 2024, sales of tractors and combines were down again in October.

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