Ag Weather Forum
John Baranick
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Friday, November 15, 2024 9:14 PM
While models have started to align on the overall development of next week's weather pattern, there are still some big uncertainties into how this will all come together, including timing, location, amounts, and even precipitation type with this long and drawn-out storm.
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Friday, November 15, 2024 9:14 PM
While models have started to align on the overall development of next week's weather pattern, there are still some big uncertainties into how this will all come together, including timing, location, amounts, and even precipitation type with this long and drawn-out storm.
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Thursday, November 14, 2024 3:04 PM
A key study has concluded higher temperatures lead to drought even when precipitation is at normal levels.
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Thursday, November 14, 2024 4:00 PM
Soybean oil with export commitments in the first month of the marketing year totaling 86% of the annual projection certainly justifies further investigation, especially given the implications for canola.
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Monday, November 11, 2024 8:19 PM
The message U.S. Treasury markets are trying to send us is still not certain, but the field of likely possibilities has narrowed. Recent developments suggest we better brush up on our 1970s inflation cycle history lesson.
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Monday, November 11, 2024 8:19 PM
The message U.S. Treasury markets are trying to send us is still not certain, but the field of likely possibilities has narrowed. Recent developments suggest we better brush up on our 1970s inflation cycle history lesson.
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Fundamentally Speaking
Joel Karlin
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Wednesday, November 13, 2024 3:58 PM
Drought and heat from August to October 2024 led to lower U.S. corn and soybean yields, with the USDA cutting projections for both crops.
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Tuesday, November 12, 2024 5:22 PM
This graphic shows that the per bushel decline of 1.4 from the October to November report is the largest ever since USDA started reporting monthly soybean yield figures in 1965 and the third largest drop on a percentage basis next to 1993 and then 1984.
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Thursday, October 31, 2024 4:10 PM
First fall winter wheat rating for the top 18 producing states and the U.S. for the both the 2024 and 2025 crops along with the 2000-2025 average vs. the rank of this year's initial winter wheat crop rating.
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An Urban's Rural View
Urban Lehner
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Monday, November 11, 2024 3:11 PM
Will a company that half of America patronizes be banned from operating in the U.S.? It's possible.
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Friday, November 01, 2024 6:46 PM
Despite the Federal Reserve's half-point interest-rate cut in September, some market interest rates have unexpectedly been going up.
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Tuesday, October 22, 2024 10:25 PM
The federal government's debt is like the Trojan horse in Greek mythology. Prophecies of the havoc it could wreak aren't taken seriously.
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Ag Policy Blog
Chris Clayton
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Thursday, November 14, 2024 11:11 AM
The American Farm Bureau Federation is urging Congress to prioritize a disaster and economic aid package for farmers over passing a new farm bill, citing urgent financial needs and expected delays in policy implementation.
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Monday, November 11, 2024 11:37 PM
Congress' lame-duck session may address a new farm bill and disaster aid, but priorities are unclear. With budget deadlines and aid requests from recent disasters, lawmakers face pressure to act.
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Friday, November 08, 2024 9:29 PM
There just isn't a political personality in recent memory that rural Americans embrace quite like Donald J. Trump. That showed up in the Pulse of Rural America Poll, and it showed up on Election Day as well.
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Harrington's Sort & Cull
DTN Staff
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Monday, November 11, 2024 10:00 PM
While it may seem logical that after a week of thin movement in the cash cattle market, prices would trade higher the following week as packers need to ensure that they're not short bought, there's more at play for the market to manage than just fed cattle prices.
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Thursday, October 31, 2024 4:36 PM
Fall drought has helped force heifers into feedlots instead of the U.S. breeding herd.
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Monday, October 28, 2024 8:06 PM
The market's fundamentals are incredible with fed cash cattle prices having traded higher during the past seven weeks and last week's slaughter was the highest number since the first week of February.
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Technically Speaking
DTN Staff
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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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Monday, August 12, 2024 3:25 PM
September Chicago wheat shows hints of buying at their lowest prices in nearly four years but haven't yet been able to break resistance.
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Monday, August 05, 2024 4:49 PM
With poor economic news such as the unemployment rate rising to 4.3% filtering out in the past week and the surge in the Japanese yen, the U.S. Dollar Index has plunged to its lowest level since March. Typically, that would be very supportive for U.S. wheat, as would the expected decline in major exporter wheat stocks.
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Minding Ag's Business
Katie Dehlinger
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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, 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 3:45 PM
With the future of the 45Z Clean Fuels Production Credit in question, biofuels and agriculture interest groups have asked leadership of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate to pass a one-year extension of the 40A blenders tax credit.
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Thursday, November 14, 2024 3:45 PM
With the future of the 45Z Clean Fuels Production Credit in question, biofuels and agriculture interest groups have asked leadership of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate to pass a one-year extension of the 40A blenders tax credit.
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Wednesday, November 13, 2024 6:55 PM
Republican Sen. John Thune of South Dakota was elected as the next Senate majority leader on Wednesday, giving the ethanol industry what it says is a strong leader for biofuels issues.
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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, November 15, 2024 4:51 PM
Despite some good weather over the last five weeks, there are still concerns about crop development, especially in Argentina's Pampas region where NDVI values are well below normal.
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Thursday, November 07, 2024 4:23 PM
The drought that had built up in Argentina and central Brazil during the winter and early spring has taken a massive hit from the last month's-worth of active weather and heavy rain. But soil moisture is still teetering on the dry side or normal for most places.
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Friday, November 01, 2024 8:22 PM
Good weather with widespread rainfall has allowed producers in central Brazil, and especially the state of Mato Grosso, to come back to a normal pace of planting, despite a huge delay at the beginning of planting season.
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Market Matters Blog
DTN Staff
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Friday, November 15, 2024 7:10 PM
DTN's weekly average spot price for domestic distillers dried grains is higher versus one week ago.
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Thursday, November 14, 2024 3:55 PM
Soybean oil with export commitments in the first month of the marketing year totaling 86% of the annual projection certainly justifies further investigation, especially given the implications for canola.
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Friday, November 08, 2024 5:08 PM
DTN's weekly average spot price for domestic distillers dried grains is higher versus one week ago.
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Production Blog
Pam Smith
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Friday, November 15, 2024 12:31 PM
Matt Plitt, president and CEO of Valent U.S.A., gave DTN/Progressive Farmer an update on the latest happenings at the company headquartered in San Ramon, California.
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Thursday, October 31, 2024 1:48 PM
Farmers have been advised to rotate their herbicide modes of action to help prevent the proliferation of resistant weeds, but is that the most effective tactic? The scientist-led GROW (Getting Rid of Weeds) network shares the latest research on the topic.
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Sunday, October 27, 2024 11:01 AM
Our weekly feature called View From the Cab offers a more personal look at farming and farm life. Are you willing to volunteer to give your perspective?
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Editors' Notebook
Greg D.Horstmeier
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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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Wednesday, October 09, 2024 5:37 PM
From the latest in seed corn production technologies to the newest ideas for cover crop mixes to continued consolidation in the seed industry, we'll cover the 2025 seed selection waterfront in a series of stories starting the week of Oct. 7.
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Monday, September 30, 2024 11:46 AM
After writing about a new online course about mental health and suicide prevention in rural America, DTN Staff Reporter Russ Quinn participated in the course and gained critical knowledge about how to recognize the warning signs someone may be struggling with mental health issues and how to get him or her help.
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