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DTN's weekly average spot price for domestic distillers dried grains is steady versus one week ago.

Warmth and dryness have brought on a dramatic increase in drought since early summer.

A system is bringing scattered showers into central Brazil on Oct. 10 and are expected to continue after the storm passes next week. However, models disagree on the coverage and intensity of the rainfall, which may or may not make a difference for producers planting...

From the latest in seed corn production technologies to the newest ideas for cover crop mixes to continued consolidation in the seed industry, we'll cover the 2025 seed selection waterfront in a series of stories starting the week of Oct. 7.

Every other year, Syngenta hosts its agricultural media summit, which this year was held in Greensboro, North Carolina. Here are some developments the company shared with journalists this year.

As part of an event on competition issues with farmers and producers at the White House, USDA released a new study on competition issues in the meat industry. USDA also announced a proposal to consider some regulatory restrictions on Alternative Marketing Agreements...

2023 and 2024 winter wheat yields for the top 18 growing states and the U.S. vs. the percent those yields deviated from the 25-year trend.

Over the last four weeks, feedlot managers have been able to steadily advance the cash market. But with futures up against resistance thresholds, will feedlot managers be able to do it again this week?

China dominates world manufacturing and it's redoubling its investments in new factories, hoping to make other countries more reliant on it. Policymakers in those countries are struggling to solve this China problem.

As one Canadian union ends a strike in the Port of Vancouver, another union went on strike in the Port of Montreal.

A bipartisan group of federal lawmakers introduced legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday to allow permanent sales of E15 nationally.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit last month rejected appeals filed by attorneys who represented farmers in the Syngenta corn settlement. The attorneys for years have been contesting court allocations of compensation for legal fees in the case.

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...

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.