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7 Jul 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- President Joe Biden is expected to sign an executive order on competition in the next few days. The White House press secretary on Tuesday told reporters during her daily press briefing some of the expected moves to come out of the executive order are directly related to USDA and agriculture. At least some of these issues raised by t...
7 Jul 2021
INDIANOLA, Iowa (DTN) -- The average cash rent in Iowa jumped $40 per acre from 2011 to 2012, then to $235 as the market adjusted to massive new demand for corn from the burgeoning ethanol industry. Rental rates peaked at $260 two years later, but have hovered between $230 and $235 per acre, according to the National Agricultural Statistic Service....
6 Jul 2021
This article was originally posted at 3:04 p.m. CDT on Tuesday, July 6. It was last updated at 4:12 p.m. CDT on Tuesday, July 6. ** OMAHA (DTN) -- National condition ratings for corn and soybeans held mostly steady last week, but good-to-excellent ratings for both crops remain the third lowest in the past 12 years, USDA NASS said in its weekly Crop...
6 Jul 2021
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- A hearing to determine Rabo AgriFinance LLC's ability to block the sale of farm and ranch assets of southeastern Washington's Easterday Ranches Inc., was delayed until the end of July. Easterday asked a federal bankruptcy court to issue a temporary restraining order and injunction against the creditor. Rabobank is trying to c...
6 Jul 2021
Winter and spring white wheat -- used in products such as cakes, cookies and pastries -- is getting baked this summer, but not in kitchens. The crops are getting baked in Pacific Northwest fields due to the extreme drought and record-high temperatures in the region this summer. Soft white wheat (SWW) is used to make flour for bakery products other ...