
Making adjustments to counter growing-season challenges has proven more difficult because of the unpredictability of weather, leading farmers to explore and implement practices to make their...
New York Mercantile Exchange oil futures and Brent crude traded on the Intercontinental Exchange edged higher early Friday.
A five-year survey looking at land ownership trends in Iowa shows how land demographics and ownership are shifting. It shows that more land is...
The Des Moines Area Religious Council is seeing record numbers of people seek food assistance from its pantries and mobile units around the city...
Anthony Greder has been managing editor of DTN since February 2017. He joined DTN in 2007 as wire editor and was promoted to news editor in 2009.
Prior to joining DTN, he worked as an agriculture/county government reporter and associate editor at the York News-Times in York, Nebraska, a news researcher for a media monitoring company, communications specialist at Metropolitan Community College in Omaha and communications coordinator at Dana College in Blair, Nebraska.
He was born and raised on a corn and cattle farm near the small town of Johnstown, Nebraska, in the Sandhills region of the state.
He holds a bachelor's degree in journalism with a commercial art minor from Midland University in Fremont, Nebraska.
Making adjustments to counter growing-season challenges has proven more difficult because of the unpredictability of weather, leading farmers to explore and implement practices to make their...
Corn was 96% planted and soybeans were 91% planted as of Sunday, June 4, according to USDA NASS' weekly Crop Progress report.
Corn was 81% planted and soybeans were 66% planted as of Sunday, May 21, according to USDA NASS' weekly Crop Progress report.
Corn was 65% planted and soybeans were 49% planted as of Sunday, May 14, according to USDA NASS' weekly Crop Progress report. Winter wheat condition was unchanged.
Corn was 49% planted and soybeans were 35% planted as of Sunday, May 7, according to USDA NASS' weekly Crop Progress report. Wheat condition improved slightly again.
Corn was 26% planted and soybeans were 19% planted as of Sunday, April 30, according to USDA NASS' weekly Crop Progress report. Wheat condition improved slightly.
Corn planting moved ahead 6 percentage points last week to reach 14% as of Sunday, April 23, according to USDA NASS' weekly Crop Progress report. Soy planting reached 9%.
Corn planting moved ahead 5 percentage points last week to reach 8% as of Sunday, April 16, according to USDA NASS' weekly Crop Progress report.
Winter wheat was rated 27% in good-to-excellent condition as of Sunday, April 9, down 1 percentage point from the previous week and tied for the lowest rating in 40 years.
Winter wheat was rated 28% in good-to-excellent condition as of Sunday, April 2, below last year's rating of 30%.