Market Matters Blog

The Mississippi River is in dire need of rain throughout the system as terminals struggle to load out harvest bushels.

DTN's weekly average spot price for domestic distillers dried grains was $4 higher versus one week ago.

Water levels in the Lower Mississippi River have been falling for months and relief may not be in sight.

DTN's weekly average spot price for domestic distillers dried grains was $4 higher versus one week ago.

The U.S. all-winter wheat harvest is almost complete as the Pacific Northwest has less than 10% of the crop left to harvest.

DTN's weekly average spot price for domestic distillers dried grains was $9 higher versus one week ago.

After years of failed negotiations, the rail unions and U.S. Class 1 railroads reached a tentative agreement, avoiding a rail strike.

In less than one week, rail workers could walk off the job, leaving railroads stranded and commerce in an uproar.

DTN's weekly average spot price for domestic distillers dried grains was $3 higher versus one week ago.

The deadline is approaching next week to end the 30-day cooling off period for rail workers to accept the latest contract proposals from the Presidential Emergency Board (PEB 250), and not all unions have agreed to the terms. Agricultural groups have called for Congress to...

Two weeks after the Presidential Emergency Board issued recommendations for a contract between rail workers and railroads, the majority of workers are not in agreement. Some unions are making it clear they want to keep working to reach agreements without Congress getting...

DTN's weekly average spot price for domestic distillers dried grains was $2 higher versus one week ago.

Given the poor stands seen in some new crop corn fields, especially in the southern Midwest and south, end users may have to pull from other areas to buy corn.

DTN's weekly average spot price for domestic distillers dried grains was $8 higher versus one week ago.

CBOT announced amendments to the daily price limit rules of the wheat, mini-sized wheat, KC HRW wheat, and mini-sized KC HRW wheat futures contracts for all non-spot months.

The Presidential Emergency Board recently released their nonbinding recommendations for rail workers and railroads to consider.

DTN's weekly average spot price for domestic distillers dried grains was $1 higher versus one week ago.

Germany's most important waterway is drying up, creating serious concerns that commerce on the river will be stopped.

DTN's weekly average spot price for domestic distillers dried grains was $2 higher versus one week ago.

The Freight Rail Shipping Fair Market Act was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives, which would reauthorize the Surface Transportation Board.