Ag Weather Forum
John Baranick
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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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Wednesday, January 08, 2025 1:21 PM
Mountain snow water content in the Upper Missouri River basin is from one quarter to one third below average at the start of 2025.
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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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Tuesday, January 07, 2025 6:03 PM
With ending stocks in world exporting and importing countries at multi-year low levels, sellers should have the advantage.
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Thursday, January 02, 2025 6:59 PM
You would never know it, given the price action, but Canadian canola ending stocks are expected to be the lowest since 2012-13 according to AAFC. The stocks could be lower yet if the market doesn't start discouraging demand soon.
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Fundamentally Speaking
Joel Karlin
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Tuesday, January 14, 2025 5:41 PM
Monthly U.S. cash corn price as a percent of its respective rolling five-year averages; same for hog-corn, steer/heifer-corn, broiler-feed and milk-feed ratios.
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Thursday, January 02, 2025 4:14 PM
Annual percent change for corn, soybean and Chicago wheat futures vs. the two-year percent change
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Friday, December 27, 2024 8:04 PM
As we end the year, we are seeing divergent price action in corn and beans. The outlook is far more bullish for corn than soybeans.
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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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Tuesday, January 14, 2025 1:56 PM
Outgoing Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack highlighted that the administration is finalizing its third regulation under the Packers and Stockyards Act to provide more fairness to producers. The last rule from the Biden administration on ag competition will restrict how chicken processors treat growers under the tournament system.
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Thursday, January 09, 2025 5:12 PM
Politico and others had reported the hearing for nominee Brooke Rollins would be held Jan. 15, but the Senate Agriculture Committee had not made any formal hearing announcement. Now it appears senators are still waiting on paperwork from the Trump transition team.
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Tuesday, January 07, 2025 12:53 PM
A report released Monday by Rabobank's research arm looked at the impact of a new tariff war on U.S. soybeans. The report suggests as much as a $2 drop in prices and 5 million fewer soybean acres.
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Harrington's Sort & Cull
DTN Staff
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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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Monday, January 06, 2025 9:15 PM
Last week the fed cash cattle market scored new all-time highs yet again; but with packers still short on inventory and beef demand strong, everyone is wondering: How much higher will the market trade this week?
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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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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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Thursday, December 19, 2024 6:12 PM
A federal court held a hearing in December to examine the credibility of an expert witness in a lawsuit that alleges Archer Daniels Midland manipulated the ethanol market.
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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 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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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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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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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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