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10 Jun 2020
With the market's recent drunken binge of events -- COVID-19, slaughterhouses shutting down, cattle backing up and slim feedlot placements -- I'd like to think that we could rely on history to help us see clearly into the current market. History is a beautiful, faithful tool when studying psychological patterns and human behavior. Unfortunately (or...
9 Jun 2020
In their annual U.S. Wheat (USW) Crop Quality Report, it was noted that the 2019 hard red winter (HRW) wheat crop received abundant moisture during the planting and growing season throughout the Great Plains, while swings in temperature and severe weather occurred in the Pacific Northwest (PNW) and Montana. "Unexpectedly high yields resulted in low...
9 Jun 2020
This article was originally posted at 3:04 p.m. CDT on Monday, June 8. It was last updated at 4:07 p.m. CDT on Monday, June 8.**OMAHA (DTN) -- Warmer, drier weather across much of the central U.S. the first week of June allowed farmers to push ahead with planting and also aided crop emergence, USDA NASS said in its weekly Crop Progress report on Mo...
9 Jun 2020
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- After five long days of confusion in the industry, EPA has issued a cancellation order for three dicamba herbicides, following a federal appeals court's order to vacate their registrations on June 3.The agency will permit growers and commercial applicators to use any existing stocks of three herbicides -- XtendiMax, Engenia ...
8 Jun 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- Racism is an excruciatingly uncomfortable topic in agriculture, which is basically 96% white in the racial makeup of American farmers, according to USDA's Census of Agriculture.So farm groups typically "stay in their lanes" when social unrest explodes, such as the protests that began last week after the death of George Floyd. But the...