Ag Weather Forum
John Baranick
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Tuesday, March 04, 2025 2:17 PM
National corn yields at or above trendline are featured in the top DTN weather analog years for the 2025 growing season.
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Monday, March 03, 2025 6:02 PM
A big storm system will move through the eastern half of the country through Wednesday, March 5. Widespread impacts including heavy snow, strong winds, blizzard conditions and severe weather are expected from the storm.
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Friday, February 28, 2025 9:12 PM
It has been one year since large wildfires broke out across the Texas Panhandle, but we will see a renewed risk for wildfires in the Great Plains again this spring.
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Monday, March 03, 2025 5:36 PM
Soybean oil exports for 2024-25 are almost certainly going to be revised higher given that total commitments in the first five months of the marketing year now exceed USDA's annual projection.
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Monday, March 03, 2025 5:36 PM
Soybean oil exports for 2024-25 are almost certainly going to be revised higher given that total commitments in the first five months of the marketing year now exceed USDA's annual projection.
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Thursday, February 27, 2025 7:16 PM
Not only did the 2025-26 soybean ending stocks estimate come in lower than expected, but it was based on questionable yield assumptions. More realistic yields could be quite problematic.
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Fundamentally Speaking
Joel Karlin
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Wednesday, March 05, 2025 4:42 PM
Volume of exports as a percent of production for key U.S. crop commodities over the past 15 years suggests that sorghum and soybeans have the most to lose with soybean meal also quite vulnerable though all markets will suffer.
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Wednesday, February 26, 2025 2:00 PM
Soybean sales and shipments as of the second week of February as a percent of the USDA's February WASDE export projection with those sales as a percent of the final figure vs. the percent change in U.S. soybean exports from the February WASDE projection to the final estimate.
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Wednesday, February 26, 2025 2:00 PM
Soybean sales and shipments as of the second week of February as a percent of the USDA's February WASDE export projection with those sales as a percent of the final figure vs. the percent change in U.S. soybean exports from the February WASDE projection to the final estimate.
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An Urban's Rural View
Urban Lehner
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Tuesday, March 04, 2025 1:03 PM
Don't think the pain from the national debt lies in the future. We're feeling it now.
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Wednesday, February 19, 2025 5:54 PM
The 47th president's bromance with the 25th is about more than tariffs.
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Wednesday, February 19, 2025 5:42 PM
The 47th president's bromance with the 25th is about more than tariffs.
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Ag Policy Blog
Chris Clayton
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Monday, March 03, 2025 2:11 PM
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced details of the new Emergency Commodity Assistance Program, or ECAP, as she spoke Sunday to a packed exhibit hall of farmers and vendors at the Commodity Classic show in Denver. The program will provide $10 billion to commodity crop producers.
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Thursday, February 27, 2025 8:08 PM
Gregg Doud, who served as the U.S. trade ambassador for agriculture during the first Trump administration, highlighted how agricultural exports and farm income levels have moved in tandem, and how farm income falls when trade slips. He suggests tariffs could help open up some trade markets such as Europe.
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Wednesday, February 26, 2025 12:45 PM
In a 217-215 vote, The House on Tuesday evening passed a budget bill allowing for $4.5 trillion in tax cuts while the bill also presses cuts to an array of social programs such as Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). The bill also increases spending for immigration enforcement and encouraging lower regulations in the energy sector.
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Harrington's Sort & Cull
DTN Staff
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Tuesday, March 04, 2025 6:46 PM
Finding technology that pays for itself is important on the farm. Having something that helps save the life of livestock or a human definitely has a good return on investment.
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Monday, March 03, 2025 8:25 PM
As traders, cattlemen and everyone in between head into this week's market, we expect pressure to again be the theme early in the week. Unfortunately, it could remain the market's tone until seasonal boxed beef demand perks up.
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Monday, February 24, 2025 10:12 PM
Cattle futures have been under stiff pressure the last month, but is there a possibility last Friday's Cattle on Feed report could help turn the market higher?
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Technically Speaking
DTN Staff
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Wednesday, March 05, 2025 8:45 PM
An average-price contract is a forward marketing contract that doesn't utilize options, with historical data showing that marketing new-crop corn in the spring rather than at harvest benefits producers over time.
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Monday, March 03, 2025 4:46 PM
December corn has fallen for seven consecutive days and is more than 30 cents from the recent high. Bearish implications from the soon-to-be enacted 25% tariff on the U.S.' number one corn importer Mexico, along with fund liquidation from favorable South American weather, are likely reasons for the selloff.
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Monday, February 10, 2025 2:51 PM
The price you pay for record high values is the anxiety and volatility that inevitably goes with them. That is one situation where technical analysis helps, so let's have a look.
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Minding Ag's Business
Katie Dehlinger
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Wednesday, December 04, 2024 2:01 PM
The Economic Research Service's third reading of net farm incomes is lower than 2023, but the decline is softer than initially forecast due to better-than-expected production expenses.
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Thursday, November 14, 2024 6:31 PM
Living on the family farm or ranch can be challenging. Surviving through the changes in agriculture can lead to a change in what legacy means to each person.
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Thursday, November 14, 2024 6:31 PM
Living on the family farm or ranch can be challenging. Surviving through the changes in agriculture can lead to a change in what legacy means to each person.
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Friday, February 28, 2025 8:05 PM
A bipartisan group of lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday reintroduced legislation that would use existing USDA programs to help a growing sustainable aviation fuel industry.
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Friday, February 28, 2025 8:05 PM
A bipartisan group of lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday reintroduced legislation that would use existing USDA programs to help a growing sustainable aviation fuel industry.
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Friday, February 28, 2025 8:05 PM
A bipartisan group of lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday reintroduced legislation that would use existing USDA programs to help a growing sustainable aviation fuel industry.
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Machinery Chatter
Dan Miller
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Tuesday, January 21, 2025 6:23 PM
The American Society of Ag and Biological Engineers has named its 2025 AE50 innovation awards. Here are 18 of the awards given to AGCO, CNH and CLAAS.
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Friday, July 12, 2024 5:44 PM
The Space Weather Prediction Center has issued a minor-level geomagnetic storm watch for this weekend. A storm of this intensity will have little to no impact on farming guidance systems.
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Wednesday, July 03, 2024 4:23 PM
A family legacy in farming has to start with a tractor being added to the farm to help make it more productive. On our farm, it was a Farmall Super M that has been driven by four generations.
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South America Calling
DTN Staff
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Friday, February 28, 2025 6:09 PM
The recent weather pattern in Argentina has led to the stabilization of corn and soybeans with disastrous yields looking less likely.
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Saturday, February 22, 2025 12:33 AM
Mostly favorable weather in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil's largest producer of corn and soybeans, has allowed producers to push through a late start and nearly equal the average pace for soybean harvest and safrinha (second crop) corn planting. But there are still concerns looming for the state.
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Friday, February 14, 2025 7:30 PM
Wet-season showers remained intact this week across central Brazil, but there's a pattern change coming next week.
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Market Matters Blog
DTN Staff
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Monday, March 03, 2025 4:02 PM
The office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) is proposing fees on Chinese-made ships entering U.S. ports, which could be financially detrimental to U.S. businesses, including the agricultural industry.
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Friday, February 28, 2025 6:00 PM
DTN's weekly average spot price for domestic distillers dried grains is lower versus one week ago.
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Monday, February 24, 2025 6:39 PM
In their annual early season planting survey, the National Cotton Council reports 2025 U.S. cotton acres will fall, opening the door for corn to fill the gap.
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Production Blog
Pam Smith
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Wednesday, February 26, 2025 4:41 PM
Here are two free tools that can help sort through management practices to protect crops from various pests.
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Thursday, February 20, 2025 8:08 PM
Every snowflake has a silver lining -- and it just happens to be made from free nitrogen fertilizer.
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Friday, February 14, 2025 4:48 PM
Have a story to tell about what life on your farm is like? DTN's View From the Cab feature is looking for two farmer volunteers for the 2025 season.
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Editors' Notebook
Greg D.Horstmeier
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Friday, February 07, 2025 11:14 PM
A busy week ahead with farm shows, government reports and examining the ongoing executive actions and how they will affect agriculture and commodity markets.
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Friday, February 07, 2025 11:14 PM
A busy week ahead with farm shows, government reports and examining the ongoing executive actions and how they will affect agriculture and commodity markets.
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Friday, January 24, 2025 7:25 PM
Now in its 15th year, the America's Best Young Farmers and Ranchers program recognizes some of the entrepreneurs who are shaping the future of U.S. Agriculture.
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