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13 Nov 2020
A parade of pigweed happens far too often in Mike Morgan's Piggott, Arkansas, fields. These parades are not joyous, candy-throwing events. Rather, pickups and wagons loaded with herbicide-resistant Palmer amaranth line up to haul the vile weed to a big hole to be burned. Morgan fears if he doesn't spend $100,000 or more annually on chopping crews t...
13 Nov 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- Add six more ethanol companies to the list of plaintiffs suing Archer Daniels Midland, alleging one of the nation's largest ethanol producers manipulated the market. Wisconsin producers United Wisconsin Grain Producers, Didion Ethanol, Ace Ethanol, Fox River Valley Ethanol, Badger State Ethanol and Iowa producer Pine Lake Corn, filed...
13 Nov 2020
Waiting for USDA's World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report to pop up on my computer screen Tuesday, Nov. 10, I saw the new ending stocks estimate flash up 1.702 billion bushels (bb) and also saw corn prices quickly trading higher, up 10 cents within seconds of the report release. The 1.702 bb number was significantly less than...
13 Nov 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- There is still a chance Congress could approve new COVID-19 economic relief before the end of the year, Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, said during a teleconference with agriculture journalists on Thursday. Prior to the Nov. 3 election, negotiations between the Trump administration and congressional leaders, primarily House Speaker Re...
12 Nov 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- Recapping USDA supply and demand numbers for soybeans, the U.S. Soybean Export Council on Wednesday further broke down the outlook for a tight U.S. soybean supply that likely will lead to higher exports than USDA's forecast and even higher soybean imports late in the marketing year to meet global crush demand. Randy Mittelstaedt, hea...