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8 Sep 2021
This article was originally published at 8:57 a.m. CDT on Wednesday, Sept. 8. It was updated at 5:14 p.m. CDT on Wednesday, Sept. 8, following the Farm Service Agency's inadvertent early release of planting data. ** On Friday, Sept. 10, USDA will release crop estimates of U.S. corn and soybeans, which also includes field data for the first time thi...
3 Sep 2021
Only one corn-breeding line out of about 150 remained standing after a derecho slammed into Beck's Superior Hybrids nursery, near Marshalltown, Iowa, last summer. Winds exceeding 100 mph are an extreme test in standability for any experimental corn line, but the fact the variety stood like a tree when thousands of actual trees were blown over durin...
3 Sep 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- The DTN average price for domestic distillers dried grains (DDG) from 33 locations reporting for the week ended Sep. 2 was $201 per ton, down $4 from one week ago. Prices moved lower on average this week even as production was lower again, slowing DDG output. Wednesday's Energy Information Administration report showed domestic invent...
3 Sep 2021
Most of what we hear or read about passing the family business to the next generation is positive. Farm- or ranchland, financial assets, life lessons and family values are the primary assets we hope to transition to others. Indeed, significant time and money are invested in making sure things of value pass with as little tax or family friction as p...
2 Sep 2021
By Mary Kennedy, DTN Basis Analyst and Chris Clayton, DTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- Grain companies with terminals along the lower Mississippi River are looking at shifting more of their committed grain and soybean exports to ports in the Pacific Northwest while damage assessments and repairs begin in earnest following Hurricane Ida. Hurrica...