Prairie Durum Bids Shown Flat Through Spring 2020
Posted by Cliff Jamieson , Canadian Grains AnalystAustralia is in the news selling durum to Italy early in the new year, while providing a challenge for Canada's exports.
Blogs
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Canada Markets
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Sort & Cull
Waiting Paid Off for Feedlots
Posted by ShayLe Stewart , DTN Livestock AnalystHeading into this week, and seeing what potential opportunities could be around the corner, feedlots could have another opportunity to rally the cash cattle market.
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An Urban's Rural View
The Big Question in US-China Relations
Posted by Urban C Lehner , Editor EmeritusShould the U.S. abandon "strategic ambiguity" and tell China it will defend Taiwan militarily?
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Market Matters Blog
2020 Spring Wheat Harvest: A Tale of Two Crops
Posted by Mary Kennedy , DTN Basis AnalystThe 2020 spring wheat crop fared better than the 2019 crop, but yields varied on timing of planting.
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Fundamentally Speaking
How Much Higher Will Soybean Export Forecasts Go?
Posted by Joel Karlin , DTN Contributing AnalystU.S. soybean exports in million bushels (mb) already on the books as of the second week in the marketing year starting September 1 vs these sales as a percent of the USDA's Sep WASDE export projection
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Technically Speaking
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Ag Policy Blog
Groups Praise New Aid Package, But Some Also Seek More
Posted by Chris Clayton , DTN Ag Policy EditorFollowing the president's declaration Thursday evening of a new aid package, USDA announced $14 billion for CFAP 2 with enrollment to begin Monday. The first round of CFAP paid for losses largely before April 15, 2020. The new round of payments will cover losses throughout the...
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Ag Weather Forum
Drought to Expand During Fall 2020
Posted by Bryce Anderson , DTN Senior Ag MeteorologistThe official NOAA mid-September outlook calls for no drought easing in affected areas of the Midwest and Plains over the next three months. DTN forecasts lean even drier with expectations for below-normal precipitation through almost all the central and eastern U.S. except for...
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Production Blog
Not So Magical Mystery Seeds
Posted by Pamela Smith , Crops Technology EditorOfficials are still digging into the origins of seeds that arrived in mailboxes this summer.
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MachineryLink
AEM: Positive Trend Continues in Tractor, Combine Sales
Posted by Russ Quinn , DTN Staff ReporterAccording to the Association of Equipment Manufacturers' latest report, unit sales of agricultural tractors and self-propelled combines in August 2020 were positive for the fifth month in a row in the U.S.
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South America Calling
Late Start Likely to Brazil Rainy Season
Posted by Bryce Anderson , DTN Senior Ag MeteorologistBrazil's top soybean production state, Mato Grosso, has a later-than-average start to its rainy season indicated.
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Ethanol Blog
Grassley: 'Trump Takes RFS Exemptions Issue Off Political Table'
Posted by Todd Neeley , DTN Staff ReporterIowa Republican Sen. Charles Grassley said on Tuesday he believes President Donald Trump has garnered support from rural America by rejected retroactive small-refinery exemption requests to the Renewable Fuel Standard.
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Editors' Notebook
New DTN Location Feels Like Homecoming
Posted by Russ Quinn , DTN Staff ReporterDTN Staff Reporter Russ Quinn writes that the location where DTN has now moved its office to in Omaha is the place where he used to walk beans.
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Minding Ag's Business
Will China Make It?
Posted by Katie Micik Dehlinger , Farm Business EditorChina may be hard-pressed to make up ground to fulfill its $36.5-billion commitment to the United States in phase one of a trade deal.