Blogs

  • Editors' Notebook

    DTN Crops Editor Jason Jenkins won Journalist of the Year from the North America Agricultural Journalists during the association's annual meeting in Washington. (Photo by Allison Jenkins)
    Posted by Elaine Shein , DTN/Progressive Farmer Associate Content Manager

    The DTN/Progressive Farmer staff received several awards at this year's NAAJ awards banquet in Washington and had three finalists in the Jesse H. Neal Awards competition.

  • Market Matters Blog

    DTN's weekly spot price for domestic distillers dried grains for the week ended June 5 is down $2 on average versus one week ago. (DTN file photo)
    Posted by Mary Kennedy , DTN Basis Analyst

    DTN's weekly average spot price for domestic distillers dried grains is slightly lower versus one week ago.

  • Ag Weather Forum

    There is more rainfall forecast for the region in the extended range between June 11-15. (DTN graphic)

    Systems have been largely disappointing in the Canadian Prairies during the last couple of weeks. More rainfall is forecast in the extended range, but can we trust that to actually occur?

  • Fundamentally Speaking

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

    Second U.S. corn rating of each year from 2000 to 2025 vs. percentage of the U.S. corn area in some form of drought D1-D4 as recorded in the U.S. Drought monitor site.

  • Production Blog

    Gibberella ear rot in corn is caused by Fusarium graminearum, the same the mycotoxigenic fungus that causes Fusarium head blight (scab) in wheat. (Photo by Charles Woloshuk, Purdue University)

    While the alleged smuggling of a fungus into the United States by two China nationals raised concerns of a potential agroterrorism plot this week, farmers have been dealing with Fusarium graminearum for decades.

  • Canada Markets

    With wheat markets trying to leave bottom formations behind and drought conditions impacting spring wheat areas with comparisons to 2021 common, the premium for Minneapolis wheat needs to remain in focus. Note the $3.50/bushel gain in the spread in 12 months thanks to the drought in 2021. It is especially important given the lowest U.S. spring wheat planting intentions since 1970. (DTN ProphetX chart)
    Posted by Mitch Miller , DTN Contributing Canadian Grains Analyst

    With all three U.S. wheat markets displaying bottom formations, other spring wheat areas being lost to corn at a greater rate than expected this year, and drought conditions impacting spring wheat areas on both sides of the U.S. border, the Minneapolis wheat premium to Chicago...

  • Ag Policy Blog

    Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro announced Wednesday his state is suing USDA for canceling the state's contract under the Local Food Purchasing Agreement (LFPA) program. (photo from Gov. Shapiro's X account)
    Posted by Chris Clayton , DTN Ag Policy Editor

    USDA canceled roughly $900 million nationally in contracts under the Local Food Purchasing Program. Gov. Josh Shapiro, a Democrat, announced a lawsuit against USDA for canceling the state's contract.

  • An Urban's Rural View

    The dollar should increase in value when long-bond yields rise. Instead, the 30-year Treasury bond's yield increase has been accompanied by a lower dollar. (DTN ProphetX chart)
    Posted by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus

    When interest rates on long bonds rise, the U.S. dollar usually gains value. That this has stopped happening suggests foreign investors are seeing the U.S. as a riskier place to invest and are demanding even higher interest rates.

  • Ethanol Blog

    Gevo has agreed to sell an ethanol plant in Minnesota for $7 million. (DTN file photo by Todd Neeley)

    Gevo agreed to sell its Minnesota ethanol plant for $7 million while retaining assets for potential sustainable aviation fuel production, while the new owner plans to restart production.

  • Sort & Cull

    On the flipside of being worried about when the good times will end: What if the escalation in price continues to be fueled by a downward spiral of the beef herd fed in part by the escalation in price? (DTN ProphetX chart)
    Posted by Mitch Miller , DTN Contributing Canadian Grains Analyst

    Feeder cattle's dramatic rise to record highs is certainly cause for celebration in the short term -- and anxiety for long-term planning.

  • Technically Speaking

    On the flipside of being worried about when the good times will end: What if the escalation in price continues to be fueled by a downward spiral of the beef herd fed in part by the escalation in price? (DTN ProphetX chart)
    Posted by Mitch Miller , DTN Contributing Canadian Grains Analyst

    Feeder cattle's dramatic rise to record highs is certainly cause for celebration in the short term -- and anxiety for long-term planning.

  • Minding Ag's Business

    A unique set of weather conditions kicked up dust storms ahead of a line of strong thunderstorms in several parts of the Corn Belt. High winds with gusts up to near 60 mph on May 16 blew dust across fields near North Bend, Nebraska. (DTN photo by Elaine Shein)

    Powerful winds whipped up planting season dust across the country during the weekend, prompting a dust storm warning in Chicago, which has not seen one of such magnitude since 1934.

  • 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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