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With the cattle complex off to an aggressive start for the new week, cattlemen are crossing their fingers that prices will remain strong as some set out to market their 2025 calves.

The New York Times on Monday spotlighted how Kansas farmers came up with the idea for Food for Peace. The Iowa Capital Dispatch last week also reported on plans to scrap USDA's Climate Hubs. The House appropriations bill zeros out the funding for USDA's 11 climate hubs.

Love them or hate them, participants other than those directly involved with a commodity use futures markets for various purposes. In the coming months, commodity index traders could be the best hope there is for higher grain and oilseed prices.

The House passed the "One, Big, Beautiful Bill," extending the 45Z Clean Fuels tax credit through 2029 with provisions favoring North American feedstocks and removing penalties for corn ethanol.

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

Soybean oil's percent contribution of the combined soybean crush value over the past 30 years along with the average and plus and minus one and two standard deviation lines.

Meteorologists tend to talk about weather in terms of being above or below normal, especially in the longer ranges. But what do they mean, and why are they used?

DTN/Progressive Farmer recently talked with Trimble PTx Senior Product Manager Dinen Subramaniam about Trimble PTx's award-winning OutRun autonomous technology. Available now as an autonomous grain cart solution, Trimble PTx is adding tillage functions and AGCO-brand Fendt...

It's time to see if you can spot tar spot in cornfields.

The Declaration of Independence was signed at the height of a movement historians call the Enlightenment. The Enlightenment has few fans among the increasingly influential faction of post-liberal intellectuals.

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...

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.

Stemming from multiple factors, agricultural employers nationwide find hiring workers difficult, reflecting a widespread farm labor shortage.

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.