Blogs

  • Ag Policy Blog

    There are a lot of questions USDA will have to sift through when laying out the rules for adding new base acres to farm programs. Agricultural economists noted the 30 million acres of new base is a major expansion for farm commodity programs. (DTN/The Progressive Farmer file photo by David L. Hansen)

    The budget reconciliation bill includes a provision that will allow USDA to add 30 million acres of new base acres to farm programs. Under the changes, farmers who have planted commodity crops from 2019-2023 will get a chance to add acres to farm program base if they meet the...

  • Market Matters Blog

    Koznitza is docked at CHS Elevator on June 17 as it loads spring wheat bound for Italy. Built in 1936, CHS Superior, Wisconsin, is the largest grain shipper in the Duluth-Superior port, handling about 60% to 70% of the port's total grain volume. (Photo courtesy of Schauer Photo Images)

    CHS Inc. announced it is permanently closing its Superior, Wisconsin, grain terminal, the largest in the Port of Duluth-Superior.

  • Sort & Cull

    Although boxed beef prices traded lower last week, both the live cattle and feeder cattle markets ran to new contract highs. (DTN ProphetX chart)

    Limited supplies and strong demand have been the biggest reasons why both the live cattle and feeder cattle markets have traded higher, and why for now the market will likely remain strong.

  • An Urban's Rural View

    In his first half year as Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has proposed some commendable changes in food policy and some less commendable ones. ((File screenshot of livestream video of Senate Committee on Health, Labor, Education and Pensions hearing)
    Posted by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus

    As presidential candidate, Donald Trump promised to make Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Secretary of Health and Human Services and said he'd let Kennedy "go wild on the food." And so Kennedy has.

  • Canada Markets

    2024-25 corn export commitments to date (shown in green) have only been exceeded once in the last 25 years (by a mere 14 million bushels). With that, USDA should be expected to revise its export estimate higher again on Friday. (DTN chart, USDA data)
    Posted by Mitch Miller , DTN Contributing Canadian Grains Analyst

    With corn export commitments to date only being exceeded once in the last 25 years (and barely), the USDA should be increasing its export estimate again on Friday.

  • Ag Weather Forum

    Heat waves that occur with drought are most common in the western United States but have also been noted elsewhere in the contiguous 48 states. (DTN file photo by Chris Clayton)
    Posted by Bryce Anderson , Ag Meteorologist Emeritus

    The tendency for air temperature to increase because of heat from dry soils is key to drought enhancing heat waves.

  • Ethanol Blog

    Biofuels groups on Tuesday weighed in on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Renewable Fuel Standard volumes proposal. (DTN photo by Joel Reichenberger)

    Biofuels groups praise EPA's "strongest-ever" RFS proposal, while urging proper handling of small-refinery exemptions to maintain the 15-billion-gallon commitment.

  • Fundamentally Speaking

    Chart by Joel Karlin, DTN Contributing Analyst
    Posted by Joel Karlin , DTN Contributing Analyst

    Soybean oil's percent contribution of the combined soybean crush value over the past 30 years along with the average and plus and minus one and two standard deviation lines.

  • MachineryLink

    AGCO's Trimble PTx brand is adding Fendt tractors and tillage functions to its award-winning OutRun autonomous technology, a solution already giving farmers an automated grain cart capability. (Photo courtesy of AGCO Trimble PTx)
    Posted by Dan Miller , Progressive Farmer Senior Editor

    DTN/Progressive Farmer recently talked with Trimble PTx Senior Product Manager Dinen Subramaniam about Trimble PTx's award-winning OutRun autonomous technology. Available now as an autonomous grain cart solution, Trimble PTx is adding tillage functions and AGCO-brand Fendt...

  • Production Blog

    Look for the spot that won't rub off the corn leaf to determine if corn is infected with tar spot. (Photo by Matthew Vandehaar)
    Posted by Pamela Smith , Crops Technology Editor

    It's time to see if you can spot tar spot in cornfields.

  • Technically Speaking

    This is a daily chart of December corn futures showing the vulnerable support area and little below that. (DTN ProphetX chart)
    Posted by Dana Mantini , Senior Market Analyst

    December corn on Monday is under severe pressure again and for about the eighth time is challenging the support area of $4.33 to $4.34. The more a chart point is challenged, the more vulnerable it becomes with each additional test. A look at the weekly version of the December...

  • Minding Ag's Business

    Join us for an exclusive webinar focused on the biggest near- and long-term trends in the cattle markets on June 24 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. CDT. (DTN image by Nick Scalise)

    Join Oklahoma State University Livestock Marketing Specialist Derrell Peel and DTN experts for an in-depth examination of cattle market dynamics, as well as what you can expect from weather and prices for the rest of the year.

  • Editors' Notebook

    According to a recent informal, online DTN/Progressive Farmer poll as well as interviews with experts and national statistics, finding good ag labor is difficult these days. (Photo by Debra Ferguson)
    Posted by Anthony Greder , DTN/Progressive Farmer Content Manager

    Stemming from multiple factors, agricultural employers nationwide find hiring workers difficult, reflecting a widespread farm labor shortage.

  • South America Calling

    The April forecast from DTN is calling for well-below-normal rainfall for the tail end of Brazil's wet season. (DTN graphic)
    Posted by John Baranick , DTN Meteorologist

    Soil moisture is below normal in many of Brazil's safrinha corn growing areas. A drier outlook for April puts that corn crop at a higher risk of drought and damage.

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