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DTN's weekly average spot price for domestic distillers dried grains is $2 lower than one week ago.

CGC's study looks at licensed deliveries of select crops into licensed facilities during the first half of the crop year, while calculating this volume as a percent of the total volume available for delivery, based on current government estimates.

The Handy Bt Trait Table provides a helpful list of trait packages to make it easier to understand seed guides, sales materials, and bag tags.

The legislation would establish regional cash minimums and equip producers with more market information, including permanently authorizing a cattle contract library. The bill is reintroduced after getting extensive discussion in the last Congress, but did not receive any floor...

Another round of rain late last week was beneficial for the corn and soybean crop in Argentina. However, the forecast for February is not favorable for continuing the upward trend.

Continued moisture stress in the Western Corn Belt is suggested by the latest seasonal drought outlook.

The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark rate by 0.25% on Feb. 1. At previous meetings the increases had been 0.75% and 0.5%. But there are likely more rate hikes ahead.

The corn market has been up and down, but still in a minor uptrend, as traders determine how much Argentine corn could actually be lost.

With beef cow processing as rapid as it was through 2022, I don't think it's out of line to anticipate that the January 2023 beef cow herd could be below 29 million head, which happened in 2014 and is the record low for the industry.

Although Clean Air Act deadline came and went in July 2022 for EPA to respond to states' request to take action to allow year-round E15 sales, the agency has yet to act after 270 days. Attorneys general are now giving the EPA until the end of January.

In this Equipment Roundup, DTN/Progressive Farmer looks at the Association of Equipment Manufacturers' thoughts on parts and employees, JCB's hydrogen-powered engine technology and an AI precision spraying pact between Greeneye and FBN.

The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City's most recent survey of lenders shows that non-real estate farm loans increased by 20% on average as production costs climbed. Interest rates also climbed to a 10-year high, putting additional pressure on financing costs.

DTN's new weekly feature is aimed at helping you be aware of the things that may affect your business and family in the coming week.

There is an inverse relationship with high prices resulting in lower corn fed per GCAU and vice-versa with the formula explaining about 70% of the variability seen in corn feed use.