Blogs

  • Ag Policy Blog

    Outside one of the Trump stores in Branson, Mo., where multiple retailers sell nothing but memorabilia with President-elect Donald Trump's image or brand. A lot of polls underestimated Trump's support in rural America. (DTN photo by Chris Clayton)

    There just isn't a political personality in recent memory that rural Americans embrace quite like Donald J. Trump. That showed up in the Pulse of Rural America Poll, and it showed up on Election Day as well.

  • Market Matters Blog

    DTN's weekly spot price for domestic distillers dried grains for the week ended Nov. 7 is 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.

  • Ethanol Blog

    A Florida man pleaded guilty to charges as part of a scheme to fraudulently file for biofuels tax credits in the Renewable Fuels Standard. (Photo by Tim-Evanson-(cc-by-sa-2.0)

    Florida resident Royce Gillham pleaded guilty to wire fraud and filing false claims, after a federal investigation found he claimed to have generated more than $7 million in fraudulent biofuels tax credits.

  • Ag Weather Forum

    Almost the entire Ohio Valley region is in some phase of drought. Rainfall forecasts through mid-November indicate moderate to heavy amounts in the lower Ohio Valley, but limited moisture in the extreme drought areas of the upper Ohio Valley. (Drought Monitor and DTN graphics)
    Posted by Bryce Anderson , Ag Meteorologist Emeritus

    Increased flows from the Ohio River into the Mississippi River during the next two weeks will depend on rainfall in the lower portion of the basin.

  • Canada Markets

    The first sign that yet another labor dispute on Canada's West Coast is becoming a market factor should show up in the spread between ICE canola and European rapeseed. (ProphetX chart)
    Posted by Mitch Miller , DTN Contributing Canadian Grains Analyst

    Although yet another labor disruption is not necessarily acceptable, the spread between Canadian canola and European rapeseed suggests no meaningful supply disruption is expected.

  • South America Calling

    Soil moisture has improved across Argentina and Brazil during the last month, but there is still work to do to reverse the extreme drought from earlier in the season. (NOAA Climate Prediction Center graphic)
    Posted by John Baranick , DTN Meteorologist

    The drought that had built up in Argentina and central Brazil during the winter and early spring has taken a massive hit from the last month's-worth of active weather and heavy rain. But soil moisture is still teetering on the dry side or normal for most places.

  • Minding Ag's Business

    Illinois farmers are forecast to have a third consecutive year of operating returns that fall short of paying their land rent. (Farmdoc chart)
    Posted by Katie Micik Dehlinger , Farm Business Editor

    Fuel and fertilizer prices are expected to soften for the 2025 growing season, but projected corn and soybean returns remain negative for 2025.

  • An Urban's Rural View

    The 30-year mortgage interest rate is one of several other bond market-based rates that was coming down before the Federal Reserve slashed its benchmark rate on Sept. 18 but went up after it. (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis chart)
    Posted by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus

    Despite the Federal Reserve's half-point interest-rate cut in September, some market interest rates have unexpectedly been going up.

  • Sort & Cull

    Soils across the major beef cow states are largely bone-dry. Poor grazing supply is a big reason why the percentage of heifers in U.S. feedlots remains well above the long-term average. (Cattle graphic courtesy of Derrell Peel, Oklahoma State University; dryness graphic from NASA)
    Posted by Bryce Anderson , Ag Meteorologist Emeritus

    Fall drought has helped force heifers into feedlots instead of the U.S. breeding herd.

  • Fundamentally Speaking

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

    First fall winter wheat rating for the top 18 producing states and the U.S. for the both the 2024 and 2025 crops along with the 2000-2025 average vs. the rank of this year's initial winter wheat crop rating.

  • Production Blog

    Tank mixing herbicides may be the most effective means of controlling the advance of herbicide resistance in tough-to-control weeds such Palmer amaranth, according to new research. (DTN photo by Pamela Smith)

    Farmers have been advised to rotate their herbicide modes of action to help prevent the proliferation of resistant weeds, but is that the most effective tactic? The scientist-led GROW (Getting Rid of Weeds) network shares the latest research on the topic.

  • Editors' Notebook

    At the All American Quarter Horse Congress, more than 200 Congress champions are crowned each year. Trophies represent the champion in each class, while medals are awarded to reserve champion, top 15 and finalists. (DTN photo by EllaMae Reiff)
    Posted by EllaMae Reiff , DTN Content Editor

    A weekend at the All American Quarter Horse Congress filled with exciting classes, shopping, delicious food and a strong sense of community that makes the event truly special.

  • Technically Speaking

    This is a daily chart of November soybeans, showing an extreme oversold condition and trading just above Friday's contract low. (DTN ProphetX chart)
    Posted by Dana Mantini , Senior Market Analyst

    November soybeans have been battered and beaten up. The market was already reeling when USDA came up with one million additional acres of soybeans planted and a record yield of 53.2 bpa. In the past few weeks, soybeans have registered new contract lows as funds reveled in...

  • MachineryLink

    The Space Weather Prediction Center has issued a watch for a minor-level geomagnetic storm this weekend (DTN image courtesy of the Space Weather Prediction Center)

    The Space Weather Prediction Center has issued a minor-level geomagnetic storm watch for this weekend. A storm of this intensity will have little to no impact on farming guidance systems.

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