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29 Sep 2020
By the end of the 2019-20 crop year, the corn basis recovered from the fall it took beginning in March when COVID-19 caused U.S. ethanol plants to slow or shudder as the crude oil market fell into a dark hole. With many states closing businesses and asking residents to stay home except for essential needs, demand for energy related products dropped...
29 Sep 2020
A new 2020 DTN/Progressive Farmer Zogby Analytics Pulse of Rural America poll finds 50% of rural adults intend to vote for President Donald Trump on Election Day, Nov. 3; that's a lead of 17 percentage points over Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden. Eleven percent of rural adults are undecided.In a similar DTN/Pro...
29 Sep 2020
This article was originally posted at 3:05 p.m. CDT on Monday, Sept. 28. It was last updated at 3:38 p.m. CDT on Monday, Sept. 28.**OMAHA (DTN) -- The U.S. corn harvest was slightly behind the five-year average pace while soybean harvest moved further ahead of normal last week, according to the USDA NASS weekly Crop Progress report released on Mond...
28 Sep 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- EPA failed to reallocate biofuel gallons lost to small-refinery exemptions in the 2019 Renewable Fuel Standard volumes, an attorney for Growth Energy argued in an ongoing lawsuit before a federal appeals court on Friday. The attorney asked the court to provide direction to EPA on the issue.Growth Energy filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Co...
28 Sep 2020
By Matthew Wilde Progressive Farmer Crops Editor and Chris Clayton DTN Ag Policy EditorMadrid, Iowa (DTN) -- The Ihle family have been playing an unnerving game of hide-and-seek this harvest.Tin, wood 2x4s with nails, mailboxes, a traffic cone and what seemed like half the town of Madrid, Iowa, was deposited in one of Brian and Mike Ihle's soybeans...