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9 Oct 2020
DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- Reid Thompson took Sunday, Oct. 4, off -- smack in the midst of harvest. Let the collective gasps begin. "We work really hard during the week with the goal of keeping Sunday for family," said Thompson, who farms near Colfax, Illinois. "I'm not going to say we will never work on a Sunday, but we've made a commitment to try to ...
8 Oct 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- The farm input supply chain is in transition as the industry sees great competition from e-commerce. The traditional agricultural supply landscape in North America is facing threats from smaller startups with less fixed costs. New business models put the farmer more in the middle of the chain where products are bought and sold but al...
8 Oct 2020
There's only one thing that can take the fun out of selling $10 soybeans across the scale at harvest: Convincing yourself the soybean market is so overwhelmingly bullish that it definitely ought to be headed toward $11, $12, the moon! There are certainly enough people out there who will make that case for you, on farm media panel shows or getting c...
8 Oct 2020
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- As summer 2020 advanced, a common question surfaced in parts of the Corn Belt this summer: Why are my beans so short? The effect was clearly on display when Pioneer field agronomist Ryan Van Roekel laid out some soybeans in south-central Iowa at Corteva Agriscience's Virtual Media Event on Oct. 6. The plant's nodes were clus...
7 Oct 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- A sharply rising corn price paid by Neeley Biofuels' hypothetical ethanol plant on Monday took a bite out of the plant's profit margin since DTN's last update on Aug. 14. The 50-million-gallon plant in South Dakota paid $3.79 per bushel for corn on Monday, a spike from $3.25 paid in the middle of August based on the October futures p...