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Market Matters Blog
More evidence of the strength of export demand, this time in the form of some big sales to Egypt, triggered increases in cash wheat prices Wednesday.
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Technically Speaking
Market bulls are trying to talk up the DJIA following Wednesday's rally. The market's daily chart indicates otherwise.
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Fundamentally Speaking
This piece looks at the yields of Russia's corn, wheat, and barley crop expressed as a percent deviation from the 24 year trend.
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Ag Policy Blog
I'm issuing my own cease-and-desist order this morning against NCBA and R-CALF over the silly season that has begun between the two groups since last Friday's livestock competition meeting.
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Minding Ag's Business
Recently I reported that the permanent farm disaster aid program made princes and paupers out of farmers in states struck by farm revenue losses when it first launched for the 2008 crop last January. SURE, the Supplemental Revenue Assistance program, rewarded some growers with maximum $100,000 payments while others with equally legitimate losses collected zero because of technical glitches.
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Ag Weather Forum
How the 2010 growing season played out on the rainfall side.
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Ethanol Blog
A common practice in bankruptcy law is causing big headaches for many farmers who did business with the now-bankrupt ethanol producer VeraSun Energy Corp., according to a piece on Minnesota Public Radio, http://dld.bz/ukzh.
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Production Blog
My Two Cents 8/27 2:39PM
Can't criticize yield estimates if you understand the process and goal - one national number.
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Harrington's Sort & Cull
The U.S. faces two new challenges in growing Japanese beef demand: a falling birth rate in Japan, and a rising average life expectancy of Japanese citizens.
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South America Calling
Winds of Change 8/27 12:31PM
Presidential election years are normally a period of high volatility in Brazil. It is an indication of how far the country has come, though, with just over a month to Election Day and the financial markets have hardly flinched as left-wing female candidate Dilma Rousseff leads the polls.
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Editor's Notebook
The national economic mood is increasingly pessimistic, yet the agricultural economy is doing well. Can this continue? It depends on the answer to the question at the heart of today's national economic debate -- slow growth or double dip?
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Machinery Chatter
Monday Claas rolled out its new series of combines at the Farm Progress show.
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In Other Media Blog
The U.S. Department of Justice is suing a western Michigan dairy it claims sold cows that contained illegal traces of antibiotics in their bodies, according to the Associated Press. Justice Department officials filed a complaint Tuesday in a federal court in Grand Rapids that Scenic View Dairy sold cows from three farms for human consumption in spite of numerous warnings.
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What DTN Is Watching
Thu Sep 2, 2010 06:29 AM CDT

Markets Weekly Export Sales (7:30 a.m. CT)

Outside Markets Factory Orders, Pending Home Sales Index (9 a.m. CT); Stock markets, dollar, crude oil

Weather Extent of rain in northern, western and central Midwest; Continued dry conditions elsewhere, raising concerns in parts of the Eastern Corn Belt

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