Ag Weather Forum
John Baranick
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Thursday, January 16, 2025 1:00 PM
A weak La Nina is in place this winter, but it will not stick around long. What is expected for this spring and summer?
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Tuesday, January 14, 2025 12:47 PM
Slow-changing upper-air patterns tied to record-high world temperatures support winds driving catastrophic fires in the far West.
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Monday, January 13, 2025 6:18 PM
Some roller-coaster temperatures will occur this week, but we'll fall down the big hill this weekend after a cold front sweeps through the country.
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Monday, January 20, 2025 6:48 PM
With a third of the U.S. marketing year in the rear-view mirror, corn exports to Canada are a fraction of historical levels. Will it even be possible to reach USDA's current estimate of Canadian corn imports?
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Thursday, January 16, 2025 6:10 PM
U.S. Treasury markets have been under relentless pressure on fears of a resurgence of inflation. At the same time, central banks around the world have been cutting interest rates with market debates having more to do with how many more cuts are coming instead of whether there should be any at all.
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Monday, January 13, 2025 7:35 PM
Friday's short-term guidance from the U.S. Treasury and IRS removed foreign used cooking oil (UCO) as an eligible feedstock for biofuel production while reaffirming canola oil's included status. Given limited soybean oil supplies, strong imports of the latter may need to grow further.
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Fundamentally Speaking
Joel Karlin
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Wednesday, January 15, 2025 4:13 PM
Percent change in the 2024 corn and soybean yields for the top growing states and the U.S. from the September to the January report vs. the past year's August to October total precipitation as a percent of the 1895-2024 Aug-Oct average.
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Wednesday, January 15, 2025 4:13 PM
Percent change in the 2024 corn and soybean yields for the top growing states and the U.S. from the September to the January report vs. the past year's August to October total precipitation as a percent of the 1895-2024 Aug-Oct average.
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Wednesday, January 15, 2025 4:13 PM
Percent change in the 2024 corn and soybean yields for the top growing states and the U.S. from the September to the January report vs. the past year's August to October total precipitation as a percent of the 1895-2024 Aug-Oct average.
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An Urban's Rural View
Urban Lehner
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Monday, January 13, 2025 1:42 AM
Unless it's unexpectedly saved by the Supreme Court, the popular social-media platform TikTok will soon either cease operations in the U.S. or be sold to a non-Chinese owner.
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Tuesday, January 07, 2025 8:37 PM
After cutting their benchmark interest rates 100 basis points in the last four months of 2024, Federal Reserve policymakers are now looking at a slower pace of cuts in 2025, slower even than they'd projected in September. It's even possible in the view of a few of those policymakers that there won't be further cuts.
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Thursday, January 02, 2025 3:23 PM
A family Christmas custom of binge-watching The Lord of the Rings gives rise to thoughts about technology.
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Ag Policy Blog
Chris Clayton
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Friday, January 17, 2025 12:30 PM
President-elect Donald Trump announced through his Transition Team and Truth Social that he will nominate Richard Fordyce as Agriculture undersecretary for Farm Production and Conservation, Dudley Hoskins as undersecretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs, Luke Lindberg as undersecretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs, and Michael Boren as undersecretary for Natural Resources and Environment.
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Friday, January 17, 2025 12:30 PM
President-elect Donald Trump announced through his Transition Team and Truth Social that he will nominate Richard Fordyce as Agriculture undersecretary for Farm Production and Conservation, Dudley Hoskins as undersecretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs, Luke Lindberg as undersecretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs, and Michael Boren as undersecretary for Natural Resources and Environment.
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Thursday, January 16, 2025 3:11 PM
On Wednesday, 427 agricultural groups from a broad spectrum of commodities and organizations wrote leaders of the U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee calling for swift confirmation of Brooke Rollins as President-elect Donald Trump's Agriculture secretary. The committee scheduled her confirmation hearing for Jan. 23.
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Harrington's Sort & Cull
DTN Staff
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Tuesday, January 21, 2025 3:32 AM
Foreign ownership of U.S. agricultural land increased from 2022 to 2023, led primarily by the expansion of land use for renewable energy by foreign entities. In 2023, 21.9 million acres of reported foreign-held agricultural land was forestland, followed by 13.2 million acres of cropland and 7.7 million acres of pastureland.
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Monday, January 13, 2025 8:29 PM
We all know at some point packers will gather enough cattle for the market, causing this incredible rally to cool down. But I'm personally not convinced packers have enough supply purchased just yet.
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Friday, January 10, 2025 8:43 PM
APHIS confirmed on Friday that live cattle imports from Mexico to the U.S. are still at a standstill due to Mexican veterinary officials finding New World screwworm in a cow in southern Mexico in November 2024.
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Technically Speaking
DTN Staff
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Tuesday, January 07, 2025 3:41 PM
Corn futures through the last quarter of 2024 have been quick to accelerate through technical roadblocks and prices are facing another technical test at $4.60.
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Monday, December 02, 2024 4:28 PM
After having support since mid-August at the $10.12 to $10.15 area, new-crop November 2025 soybean futures last week broke down slightly below that support area and may just have begun another leg lower. Although there is plenty of growing weather yet to endure in South America -- we still have five to six weeks of important weather that will determine the size of the crop there -- the longer-term prospect for soybean prices sure looks gloomy.
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Monday, August 19, 2024 4:24 PM
November soybeans have been battered and beaten up. The market was already reeling when USDA came up with one million additional acres of soybeans planted and a record yield of 53.2 bpa. In the past few weeks, soybeans have registered new contract lows as funds reveled in the constant influx of bearish data. However, there are a few reasons to believe the worst could be over for soybeans.
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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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Thursday, January 16, 2025 3:08 PM
Green Plains Inc. announced on Thursday it had acquired all the necessary property to complete a carbon-capture project at its ethanol plants in Nebraska.
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Monday, January 13, 2025 6:43 PM
Despite the release of preliminary guidance on the 45Z Clean Fuels Production tax credit last week, biodiesel producers may need at least a temporary extension of the biodiesel blenders tax credit as they wait for more details on 45Z.
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Friday, December 27, 2024 4:37 PM
A federal appeals court has denied a motion by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to rescind a previous denial of small-refinery exemption requests.
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Machinery Chatter
Dan Miller
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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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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, January 17, 2025 6:47 PM
Models aren't making it easy to forecast rainfall across Argentina and southern Brazil over the next few days as they still show discrepancies.
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Friday, January 10, 2025 4:27 PM
It has been very dry in Argentina for the last couple of weeks and will continue to be dry into next week. A pair of fronts are forecast to move through the country late next week and weekend, but models disagree on how much precipitation will fall from them.
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Friday, January 03, 2025 4:45 PM
Below-normal rainfall has been the norm in Argentina and southern Brazil for the last couple of months. However, the showers that have been coming have hit the driest spots at the right time, keeping plant health largely on track. That luck may be running out with a stretch of much drier and warmer weather.
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Market Matters Blog
DTN Staff
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Friday, January 17, 2025 5:59 PM
DTN's weekly average spot price for domestic distillers dried grains is higher versus one week ago.
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Monday, January 13, 2025 2:52 PM
Shipping season will end on the Great Lakes for the winter as the last of the Soo Locks close on Jan. 15.
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Monday, January 13, 2025 2:52 PM
Shipping season will end on the Great Lakes for the winter as the last of the Soo Locks close on Jan. 15.
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Production Blog
Pam Smith
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Monday, January 13, 2025 6:37 PM
Those who work outside may remember the soothing attributes of Corn Huskers Lotion and be surprised to learn it is still available after all these years.
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Monday, December 23, 2024 7:48 PM
Toy bin setups can replicate those from the home farm or represent the storage system you've always dreamed of, and they fit under the Christmas tree.
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Thursday, December 19, 2024 6:17 PM
Glean kernels of knowledge from the National Wheat Yield Contest entries and plan your strategy to enter for 2025.
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Editors' Notebook
Greg D.Horstmeier
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Tuesday, December 31, 2024 2:27 PM
Our No. 1 story for 2024, for the first time in memory, is the same as in 2023. And that is frustrating, and concerning, no matter how you slice it.
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Monday, December 16, 2024 5:42 PM
Big yields to major election choices, 2024 was an eventful year for agriculture. We count down the top 10 biggest stories in the coming days.
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Wednesday, October 23, 2024 5:11 PM
A weekend at the All American Quarter Horse Congress filled with exciting classes, shopping, delicious food and a strong sense of community that makes the event truly special.
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