Friday, May 24, 2013 2:17PM CDT
Phase one of construction of a new Nebraska facility that will manufacture a plastic resin enhancer from dried distillers grains should be completed next month.
Friday, May 24, 2013 2:06PM CDT
Several ethanol companies and renewable-fuel backers, banding together under the Fuels America coalition, wrote a congressional committee this week that the best way to reduce dependence on oil and cut greenhouse-gas emissions is to stay the course on the Renewable Fuels Standard.
Thursday, May 23, 2013 5:10PM CDT
Opponents of COOL on Thursday criticized USDA and the new labeling requirements. Those criticisms were loudest from U.S. meatpackers, feeders and Canadians. The new rule would prohibit packers and retailers from co-mingling meat coming from animals born or raised in different countries.
Corn basis levels were strong for the week as river terminals needed spot supplies while they continued to catch up on shipments to the Gulf after barges we...
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A couple of weeks ago I posted a blog talking about some of the bullish signals being seen in July soybeans (April 20, "July Beans Still Bullish")...
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Earlier this month the USDA lowered its expected 2013 U.S. corn yield by 5.6 bushels per acre (bpa) to 158.0 from the 163.6 bpa figure given at their annual...
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Attention agricultural employers: Mandatory health care coverage under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) won't start until January 2014, but government requ...
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Farmers have been able to make good strides in seeding progress during the middle of May. Weather has been good for the most part, with few rainy days that...
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Prices of dried distillers grains that were reported to DTN this week were a mixed bag, with some prices up over the past two weeks, some prices down and so...
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DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- The first alert for armyworm has been issued from the state of Missouri and growers across the Midwest are urged to begin scouting fo...
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We're a fickle bunch when it comes to the WTO, championing its authority and free-trade mission when it serves our purpose, ignoring its rulings and directi...
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Brazil's top appeals court Thursday reiterated its ruling that Monsanto's patent on first-generation RoundUp Ready soybeans expired in September 2010 and th...
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I'm sending this from Soccoro, N.M., the latest stop on our meandering migration from Washington, D.C., to Newport, Ore. My bedside reading for this transco...
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Statistics Canada released their Farm Cash Receipts data for the first quarter of 2013 on Thursday. Perhaps no surprise, yet another record was generated. T...
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Corn futures are lower, soybeans lower, and wheat higher at 6 a.m. CDT.
Live and feeder contracts are pegged to open mixed with the former likely higher and the latter probably lower. Lean hog futures should also begin with uneven price action in slow, pre-holiday volume.
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