Blogs

  • 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...

  • Ag Weather Forum

    This week's hot spell is before most corn moves into pollination, which helps mitigate yield loss potential. (DTN photo by EllaMae Reiff)
    Posted by Bryce Anderson , Ag Meteorologist Emeritus

    Soil moisture and duration of extreme temperatures are key to avoiding yield loss.

  • Sort & Cull

    Cattle market fundamentals remain extremely bullish. Some extra volatility comes naturally with these record high prices. (DTN photo by ShayLe Stewart)
    Posted by ShayLe Stewart , DTN Livestock Analyst

    Record high cattle prices come with more volatility. You'll never outthink the cattle market, but you can have a plan to deal better with it.

  • Market Matters Blog

    A ripe, hard red winter wheat field in southern Kansas waiting for harvest after rains slowed progress. This field is leaning quite a bit according to the farmer, but not laying on the ground. (Photo courtesy of Scott Van Allen)
    Posted by Mary Kennedy , DTN Basis Analyst

    Areas in the Southern Plains hard red winter wheat territory have been inundated with heavy rain and severe storms, slowing harvest and negatively affecting quality.

  • Ag Policy Blog

    The Senate parliamentarian has determined two provisions to cut federal SNAP costs would require 60 votes to pass the Senate, meaning they cannot stay in a budget-reconciliation package that only requires a majority vote. The biggest provision would have shifted a percentage of SNAP costs to states based on their payment error rates. (DTN file photo by Chris Clayton)

    Shifting a percentage of SNAP spending to states was a major move under the budget reconciliation plan. Those cost savings were expected to help offset more than $67 billion in proposed spending for commodity programs and crop insurance expansion in the budget reconciliation...

  • Ethanol Blog

    A federal court remanded a Renewable Fuels Standard rule back to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Friday. (DTN file photo by Joel Reichenberger)

    A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., remanded the first Renewable Fuels Standard set rule back to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

  • 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.

  • Canada Markets

    Between the unsustainable pace of use not being slowed by market prices early enough, the possibility of insufficient acres thanks to the same signals, too much of the Canadian Prairies receiving less than 40% of normal precipitation since April 1, and excellent news regarding support for the U.S. biofuel industry, prices have rallied more than $180/mt from the post-China-tariff lows. Little stands in the way now of gains being extended, technically speaking anyway. (DTN ProphetX chart)
    Posted by Mitch Miller , DTN Contributing Canadian Grains Analyst

    Bullish fundamental and technical factors have driven canola prices sharply higher from their March lows. Charts show there should be room to run yet before hitting significant resistance.

  • An Urban's Rural View

    In the dot plot, the 19 members of the interest-rate-setting Federal Open Market Committee give their forecasts for the path of the Fed's benchmark federal funds rate. In the latest plot, 10 members see two cuts by the end of this year, two expect one cut and seven expect rates to remain at today's level between 4.25% and 4.5%. (Federal Open Market Committee graphic)

    Though the effects of tariff hikes have yet to show up in the inflation reports, the Federal Reserve expects to learn a lot more about their effects in the next few months. In the meantime, it's keeping its benchmark interest rate unchanged.

  • Fundamentally Speaking

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

    Price change in the July-December corn spread from January 1 to June 1 vs. the change in the old crop corn stocks-to-use ratio from January to the June WASDE report and the change from last June to this year's June figure.

  • Production Blog

    Depending on the crop height or growth stage, time may be running out to spray herbicides over the top of corn. (DTN photo by Pamela Smith)

    With application windows narrowed by either wind or rain, time may be running out for spraying herbicides over the top in some corn fields.

  • 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.

  • MachineryLink

    CNH reports lower sales and moderate price increases as it releases first quarter 2025 financial results. (Image courtesy of Case-IH)

    CNH Industrial, parent company of Case IH and New Holland, forecasts lower ag sales and income for 2025, while also announcing a moderate price increase "in the low single digit(s)."

  • 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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