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10 Nov 2020
Specialty Soya and Grains Alliance (SSGA) noted on their website on Oct. 23 that shipments of agricultural products by containers are being discontinued by a major shipping line, effective immediately and for the foreseeable future. The German international shipping and transportation company Hapag-Lloyd dropped a "bombshell," said SSGA, informing ...
10 Nov 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- While President Donald Trump and Republicans continue to look for legal avenues to challenge the election, more attention also turns toward what a Biden administration may mean for agriculture or other industries. Farmers are recovering from the economic slowdown caused by the coronavirus while still dealing with rising cases of COVI...
9 Nov 2020
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Gambling across the table from Mother Nature each year has taught Colorado farmer Marc Arnusch a hard, but valuable lesson: Don't play your cards too early. "We're in a high volatility weather environment," said Arnusch, who grows corn, wheat, barley and alfalfa near Keenesburg, Colorado. "We've lost too many crops to drough...
9 Nov 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- As ballot totals continued to add up over the past few days, the path to the presidency became more clear for former Vice President Joe Biden as he moved into the lead in the states of Georgia and Pennsylvania, which would effectively block President Donald Trump from capturing the Electoral College count. The presidency is not quite...
9 Nov 2020
On Thursday, Nov. 5, DTN's index of cash soybean prices closed at $10.53 per bushel, the highest in over four years. It is a remarkable achievement in the year of COVID-19, and we can't say prices are done going up yet. U.S. soybean export commitments have already reached 81% of USDA's export estimate for 2020-21 and China's domestic soybean price ...