Market Matters Blog

On July 6, China imposed a 25% tariff on U.S. soybean imports in retaliation for President Donald Trump's 25% tariff on $34 billion of Chinese goods. Since then, the trade war continues to escalate, leaving soybean farmers in Western states without a Pacific Northwest market at...

The DTN domestic dried distillers grains average price was lower at $132 per ton for the week ended Sept. 13.

After a severe drought covering most of North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana in 2017 cut spring wheat and durum wheat production by 22% and 47% respectively, those states were hoping that 2018 would be a better year.

The DTN domestic dried distillers grains prices were unchanged on average this past week at $134 per ton for the week-ended Sept. 6.

DTN domestic dried distillers grains prices were lower on average this past week at $134 per ton for the week-ended Aug. 30.

The third major compliance date will soon arrive for the preventive-controls-for-animal-food rule under the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). This will be the first year in which all three business sizes (large, small, and very small) have reached at least one of their...

The 2018 HRW wheat harvest continues advancing toward completion in the Northern Plains and Pacific Northwest, lagging behind the five-year average as noted by the U.S. Wheat Associates in their recent weekly harvest report.

The DTN domestic dried distillers grains prices were slightly higher on average this past week at $139 per ton for the week-ended Aug. 16.

The Senate recently passed a bill that would extend the electronic logging device (ELD) waiver for livestock haulers and live insect haulers by one year. However, Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety and the Trucking Alliance oppose any waivers to the mandate.

The DTN domestic dried distillers grains prices were higher this past week at an average of $138 per ton for the week-ended Aug. 9.

Eleven years ago in August, the unthinkable happened in Minnesota. An eight-lane bridge in downtown Minneapolis collapsed during rush hour, sending cars, trucks and construction workers into the Mississippi River below.

The DTN domestic dried distillers grains prices were higher this past week at an average of $134 per ton for the week ended Aug. 2.

When former Surface Transportation Board chairman Dan Elliott announced he was resigning Sept. 30, 2017, the number of STB members went from three to the current number of two. The two-person board has been waiting patiently since then for the appointment of three new...

The Wheat Quality Council hard red spring and durum wheat tour will get underway this week, with scouts checking fields throughout North Dakota and parts of South Dakota and Minnesota.

The DTN domestic dried distillers grains prices were lower this past week at an average of $121 per ton for the week ended July 19.

The 2015 implementation of the system known as positive train control was extended by Congress to have the systems in place in December of this year. It also left open the possibility of an additional extension to 2020.

The DTN domestic dried distillers grains prices were lower this past week at an average of $122 per ton for the week ended July 12.

Besides the continuation of heavy rains in southern Minnesota and northern Iowa, hail reared its ugly head not once, but twice in central South Dakota and parts of Nebraska, as well as in areas of North Dakota and Iowa.

Constant rains the past few weeks continue to fill the Mississippi River from St. Paul to Winona, along with its tributaries and other U.S. rivers in rain-soaked regions.

The DTN domestic dried distillers grains price moved lower to an average of $126 per ton for the week ended June 28.