
DTN's weekly average spot price for domestic distillers dried grains was $2 higher versus one week ago.
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Mary Kennedy has been in the grain business for more than 25 years and has worked in the Minneapolis, Duluth-Superior and PNW markets as a buyer/merchandiser of spring and winter wheat, durum, corn, barley, pulse crops and various other small grains. She is a native of St. Paul, Minn., and has lived in North Dakota and in Wisconsin where she worked as a commodity buyer in local grain elevators and an ethanol plant.
Mary has been a member of the North Dakota Grain Dealers Association and has served as the secretary of the Durum Industry Advisory Commission. She also served as a board member at the Portland Merchants Exchange and was a member of the arbitration committee at the Minneapolis Grain Exchange.
She has two sons and one daughter: Kevin, who lives in Chicago with his wife and daughter and son; Daniel, who is a lieutenant in the U.S. Army based at Fort Sam Houston with his wife and two sons; and Kelly, who resides in Minnesota with her husband and twin sons.
DTN's weekly average spot price for domestic distillers dried grains was $2 higher versus one week ago.
The Freight Rail Shipping Fair Market Act was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives, which would reauthorize the Surface Transportation Board.
Corn, SRW wheat and soybean basis was weaker, while spring wheat basis was steady and HRW wheat basis was stronger Thursday.
Corn, HRW wheat and soybean basis was weaker, while spring wheat and SRW wheat basis was steady Wednesday.
Corn and soybean basis was weaker, while spring wheat basis was steady and HRW wheat and SRW wheat basis was stronger Tuesday.
Corn, spring wheat and HRW wheat basis was weaker, while SRW wheat and soybean basis was stronger Monday.
Corn, spring wheat and HRW wheat basis was weaker, while SRW wheat and soybean basis was stronger Monday.
The Freight Rail Shipping Fair Market Act was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives, which would reauthorize the Surface Transportation Board.
Corn basis was steady, while soybean, SRW wheat, spring wheat and HRW wheat basis was weaker Thursday.
Corn, soybean and spring wheat basis was weaker Monday, while SRW wheat and HRW wheat basis was stronger.
Recently, the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Railroad Administration proposed a rule that would require a two-man crew as railroads are pursuing changing to one-man crews.
Corn, HRW wheat, soybean and spring wheat basis was weaker Friday, while SRW wheat was steady.
Corn, HRW wheat, soft red winter wheat, soybean and spring wheat basis was weaker Thursday.
Corn and HRW wheat basis was steady, while soft red winter basis is steady, and soybean and spring wheat basis is weaker Friday.
Independent truckers have been striking at the Port of Oakland for nearly a week, creating serious slowdowns there.
President Biden created a Presidential Emergency Board in the hopes of helping rail-worker unions and railroads settle ongoing contract issues.
Soybean and corn basis was weaker, while SRW wheat basis is stronger and HRW wheat and spring wheat basis is steady Thursday.
Soybean, corn and SRW wheat basis is weaker and HRW wheat basis is stronger, while spring wheat basis is steady Wednesday.
Corn, spring wheat, SRW wheat and HRW wheat basis was stronger while soybean basis was weaker Monday.
A recent Senate hearing concerning the water sources in the West drying up warned states in the Colorado River Basin to act sooner than later.
While railroads and worker unions are still in a 30-day cooling-off period, various shipper groups have asked President Biden to intervene sooner than later.
Corn, spring wheat and soybean basis was weaker, while HRW wheat basis was steady and SRW wheat basis was stronger Wednesday.
Corn, spring wheat and HRW wheat basis was stronger, while soybean and SRW wheat basis was weaker Tuesday.
Corn, spring wheat and HRW wheat basis was weaker, while soybean and SRW wheat basis was stronger Friday.
Corn, spring wheat and HRW wheat basis was stronger, while soybean and SRW wheat basis was weaker Thursday.
Corn and soybean basis was stronger, while HRW wheat was steady and SRW wheat and spring wheat basis was weaker Tuesday.
Corn and HRW wheat basis was weaker, while soybean, SRW wheat and spring wheat basis was stronger Monday.
Rail and port workers are in the midst of contact negotiations, and failure to come to an agreement could be a disaster for West Coast ports and railroads.
After more than two years of contract negotiations and three weeks of mediation, rail unions rejected the railroads' current proposals.
Corn, soybean, spring wheat and HRW wheat basis was stronger and SRW wheat basis was steady Monday.
Contract talks between the Pacific Maritime Association and the International Longshoreman Warehouse Union are taking place as current contract expiration looms.
Corn basis was steady, while soybean, spring wheat and HRW wheat basis was weaker and SRW wheat basis was stronger Friday.
Corn, soybean, and SRW wheat basis was stronger Thursday while spring wheat basis was steady and HRW wheat basis was weaker.
Hard red winter wheat and soft red winter basis ended the old crop year without much fanfare.
Corn SRW wheat and HRW wheat basis was stronger, while soybean, basis was weaker and spring wheat basis was steady Friday.
Corn and SRW wheat basis was stronger, while soybean, HRW wheat, and spring wheat basis was weaker Wednesday, the last trading day of the old crop year for HRW and SRW wheat.
A bipartisan group of 21 senators is asking the Surface Transportation Board to continue to monitor and address rail issues.
Nonstop rain and overland flooding in parts of North Dakota and Minnesota are dampening the hopes of farmers wanting to get all their intended wheat, durum and other crops planted.