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Business & Inputs

Per-acre prices of recent farmland sales. (DTN graphic)
Posted by Todd Neeley

Recent Sales Results From Grundy County, Illinois, Crawford County, Iowa; Decatur, Norton Counties, Kansas; and Clay County, Minnesota

World & Policy

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Crude futures ended Friday's trading with the largest weekly drop in 10 months, ahead of U.S.-Iran talks that could drive energy prices lower if a peace deal is struck after more than a month of fighting that upended Middle East oil supplies.

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Farm Life

Transforming farm photos into coloring books is Connie Rohloff's latest creative way to tell agriculture's story. (Photo courtesy of Connie Rohloff)

A new collection of realistic coloring books deliver fresh-from-the-farm details.

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What DTN Is Watching

Friday at 7:30 a.m. CDT, the Bureau of Labor Statistics will release the Consumer Price Index report for March. After the close, USDA will release a series of follow-up reports to Thursday's WASDE such as updating the Feed Grains and wheat databases at 1 p.m. CDT. At 2:30 p.m. CDT, the CFTC will round out the week with the Commitments of Traders report, updating positions as of Tuesday, April 7.

Weather

A cold front has largely stalled from the Kansas-Oklahoma border up through the Ohio Valley on Friday morning. That front will cause periods of showers and thunderstorms throughout the day, including parts of the very dry southwestern Plains.

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