Blogs

  • 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 Policy Blog

    A cover crop mix for a field near Spring Mills, Pa. The new Treasury guidance for using biofuels to produce sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) requires both corn and soybean farmers to use cover crops. While praising the use of on-farm practices to lower a biofuel's carbon intensity score, groups also criticized the Treasury rule for penalizing farms that do not use no-till practices or cover crops. (DTN photo by Joel Reichenberger)

    After months of talks and delays, leaders of the House and Senate Agriculture Committees each laid out separate farm-bill frameworks Wednesday with goals of pushing Congress to pass a new bill this year. The proposals still suffer from the same divisions over nutrition and...

  • 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.

  • Market Matters Blog

    Planting corn in Marquette, Nebraska on April 25, trying to beat the incoming rains. (Photo by Cale Carlson)

    As Upper Midwest farmers finish up with spring wheat planting, most of the rest of the Midwest states have been busy planting or trying to plant corn and soybeans depending on the weather.

  • 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.

  • An Urban's Rural View

    War games indicate that in a Taiwan Strait conflict, the U.S. would run out of long-range, precision-guided munitions like this Patriot missile in less than a week. (Photo by Frank Trevino, Public Domain)
    Posted by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus

    The U.S. won World War II in large part because of its ability to out-manufacture its enemies. Today China is the world's manufacturing powerhouse.

  • Ethanol Blog

    The head of the Renewable Fuels Association asked USDA to reconsider a decision to stop reporting county-level crops data. (NASS logo)

    The head of the Renewable Fuels Association asked USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service to reconsider a decision to stop reporting county-level farm data.

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