Blogs

  • Market Matters Blog

    DTN's weekly spot price for domestic distillers dried grains for the week ended May 2 is down $3 per ton 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 down $3 on average versus one week ago.

  • Ethanol Blog

    U.S. agriculture and biofuels interests have applied to intervene in a lawsuit in Europe challenging a regulation that effectively bans crop-based biofuels from being used as feedstocks to produce sustainable aviation fuel. (DTN file photo by Todd Neeley)

    Agriculture and biofuels interests are trying to intervene in a lawsuit in Europe challenging a European Union law that effectively bans the use of crop-based biofuels to produce sustainable aviation fuel.

  • An Urban's Rural View

    Jerome Powell's term as Federal Reserve chair doesn't expire until 2026 but some Trump advisors want to can him as soon as Donald Trump is elected. (Public domain photo)
    Posted by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus

    Thoughts on why the plans being drawn up by Trump advisors to undo the Federal Reserve's independence are a bad idea.

  • Ag Policy Blog

    Florida has joined three other states in banning lab-grown meat from being sold in the state. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said the law stops a global-elitist agenda against beef. (DTN file photo)
    Posted by Chris Clayton , DTN Ag Policy Editor

    Florida is the fourth state now to ban lab-grown meat from being sold in the state. Also, USDA has tested ground beef and found no signs of the H5N1 virus that has plagued the dairy herd. In other news, a potato remains a vegetable.

  • South America Calling

    Heavy, flooding rain in the state of Rio Grande do Sul continues for the next 10 days. (DTN graphic)
    Posted by John Baranick , DTN Meteorologist

    Heavy rain that has fallen recently over the state of Rio Grande do Sul in southern Brazil has caused many issues with flooding including injuries, deaths and impact to both the harvest of the summer crop and planting of the winter crop. Heavy rain that continues there for...

  • Editors' Notebook

    (DTN/Progressive Farmer photo by Joel Reichenberger; ribbon by Getty Images; DTN/Progressive Farmer illustration by Barry Falkner)
    Posted by Anthony Greder , DTN/Progressive Farmer Content Manager

    Throughout May, Mental Health Awareness Month, DTN/Progressive Farmer will feature stories and columns on the unique mental health challenges that farmers and ranchers face and the resources and support available to assist those who are struggling to find help and hope.

  • Ag Weather Forum

    Drought is now in effect over almost one-third of winter wheat areas, mostly due to a sharp degradation in drought conditions in Kansas during the past four weeks. (USDA and NDMC graphics)
    Posted by Bryce Anderson , Ag Meteorologist Emeritus

    Harsh springtime dryness in Kansas wheat areas shows the loss of El Nino winter moisture benefits.

  • Fundamentally Speaking

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

    U.S. corn export sales and shipments in million bushels as of the third week of April on the left-hand axis while reported on the right-hand axis are those figures as a percent of the USDA's April WASDE estimates.

  • Technically Speaking

    This is a daily chart of Kansas City July wheat. April 28 marked the eighth consecutive trading session of higher prices. Above the market should be formidable resistance and overbought momentum indicators. (DTN ProphetX chart)
    Posted by Dana Mantini , Senior Market Analyst

    Kansas City new-crop wheat meandered within a 40-cent range for two consecutive months and appeared to have little chance of a breakout of that sideways pattern. That is until just eight days ago. Since then, the rally has not paused. Ultra-short-managed money funds and...

  • Canada Markets

    Canada's total production of principal grains (wheat, durum, oats, barley, corn) is forecast to increase by 4.9 percent to 61.4 million metric tons (mmt) over the previous year on an additional 1.7 mmt of wheat production, according to USDA's recently released the Canada Grain and Feed Annual report. (DTN file photo by Elaine Shein)
    Posted by Mary Kennedy , DTN Basis Analyst

    It was a busy week with various reports for Canada Agriculture of weekly exports, canola crush and other important information.

  • Production Blog

    This year's View From the Cab farmers will report in from Idaho and Kentucky throughout the growing season. (Lakey photo courtesy of Dan Lakey; Pottinger photo by Leah Pottinger)
    Posted by Pamela Smith , Crops Technology Editor

    Follow us to Idaho and Kentucky to meet the farmers who will participate in DTN's View From the Cab series this season.

  • MachineryLink

    Gerrit Marx has been named the incoming CEO at CNH Industrial. (Photo courtesy of Iveco Group)

    In this Equipment Roundup, DTN/Progressive Farmer looks at the latest Association of Equipment Manufacturers report on tractor sales, the new CEO of CNH Industrial and AGCO's recent recipient of the 2024 Women MAKE Award.

  • Sort & Cull

    Recent work by the Iowa Cattlemen's Association and Iowa Farm Bureau will help save producers tax money. (DTN/Progressive Farmer photo by Jennifer Carrico)
    Posted by Jennifer Carrico , Senior Livestock Editor

    Farmers and ranchers are always looking for the right organization to belong to who will support them as a member. The Iowa Cattlemen's Association and Iowa Farm Bureau recently showed what they are doing for their members through work at the Iowa Capitol.

  • Minding Ag's Business

    AcreValue's Market Explorer tool shows a heat map of farmland sales for any state nationwide. Above shows Illinois's sales since 2021, with darker purple showing higher-values land sales. (Map courtesy of AcreValue)
    Posted by Katie Micik Dehlinger , Farm Business Editor

    Farmland analytics company AcreValue simplifies land research by making title records easy to search and weaving them together to show broader trends.

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