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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit dismissed a lawsuit filed by the Humane Society of the United States against the National Pork Board, challenging its purchase of trademarks associated with the campaign, "Pork: The Other White Meat."

European demand for Canadian canola will be seen as a blessing for the canola industry as a whole and may prevent a further build in stocks. When the continuous active rapeseed price is compared to the continuous active canola price, in Canadian dollar terms, one could perhaps...

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue outlined a number of possible changes to federal biofuels policy, in an email to President Donald Trump.

Late-starting crops need a late freeze to reach maturity.

DTN's weekly average spot price for domestic distillers dried grains was $1 per ton higher at $131 per ton.

North American sales of combines and four-wheel-drive tractors were mostly lower in July 2019 compared to the previous year while mid-range tractor sales were slightly higher, according to the July Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) U.S. Ag Tractor and Combine...

Foreign policy experts agree the U.S. should get tough with China. They disagree on how tough.

DTN's weekly analysis of the grain markets.

This year heading to the field to pull yield samples confirms there's a lot of variability hiding in this year's crop.

Using a simple regression of end of July U.S. crop ratings and the percent that the national yield deviated from the 30-year trend comes up with a figure close to the USDA number of 169.5 bushels per acre.

Effective transitions require more than planning.

As U.S. farmers hear more troubling news about trade disputes with China, the largest Chinese grain and oilseed company, COFCO, plans to buy more Brazilian soybeans over the next five years and help finance Brazilian farmers to expand production on more than 60 million...

Loren Lindler, a student at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College, shares how she spent a summer internship with DTN/Progressive Farmer.

DTN Associate Editor Cheri Zagurski has an idea about what to call meatless meat products.