News Topics

Business & Inputs

Commercial grain hedgers will take an offsetting futures market position when they buy grain but expanded trading hours could cause problems with cash and futures price convergence. (DTN file photo by Pamela Smith)

The National Grain and Feed Association said expanding futures trading hours, potentially to 24 hours a day, seven days per week, would dilute market liquidity, create staffing and compliance burdens, and generate a disconnect between cash and futures...

World & Policy

Posted

Oil futures jumped close to 2% overnight on renewed fears of a broader conflict in the Middle East following reports of a potential imminent Israeli strike on Iranian nuclear facilities.

Farm Life

Nebraska farmer Ethan Zoerb put corn planting behind him on May 17 as the last kernels of the season were dropped, with hopes that rain would arrive soon to help germination. (Photo courtesy of Ethan Zoerb)
Posted by Pamela Smith

It's wet in Alabama and dry in Nebraska, where farmers report weekly as part of DTN's View From the Cab series.

What DTN Is Watching

Initial Jobless Claims at 7:30 a.m. CDT

Weekly Export Sales Report at 7:30 a.m. CDT

Buenos Aires (Argentina) Grain Exchange Weekly Crop Report at 12 p.m. CDT

Weekly and Monthly Livestock Slaughter Reports at 2 p.m. CDT

Weather

A slow-moving system continues with showers in the northeast quadrant of the country on Thursday. Though that is leaving, the next system will be entering the Plains Thursday night, bringing scattered showers and thunderstorms during the day and evening out ahead of it.