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5 Jun 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- Of the 40 locations DTN contacted that showed offers for domestic distillers dried grains (DDG) for the week ended June 4, posted offers were steady to lower and averaged $138 per ton, down $3 versus the prior week.The cash corn price versus one week ago hasn't changed much, but DDG prices remain under pressure as feeders are still l...
4 Jun 2020
Consider this your regularly scheduled reminder that all is not well in the farm fields of North Dakota and hasn't been for quite some time. Recall that grain producers across most of the Corn Belt struggled to harvest corn and soybeans last fall amid persistent rain, but that North Dakota farmers ultimately had to leave millions of acres of corn u...
4 Jun 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- Pacific Ocean temperature analysis on June 3 shows that a La Nina cooling event is developing: It revealed a value of 0.5 degree Celsius below average. The half-degree Celsius below average is the threshold for La Nina.La Nina is the term given when Pacific Ocean equatorial temperatures reach a sustained value of at least 0.5 degree ...
4 Jun 2020
DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- Ryan Jenkins nearly needed a pre-flight checklist to head to the field Monday."Cell service is so bad that I need to take everything with me -- seed, chemicals, tool kit, sandwiches, drinks, first-aid kit," he said. Hopefully he won't need all those things, but not being able to call for backup is a strange feeling in today's...
3 Jun 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- Retail fertilizer prices dipped lower in the fourth week of May 2020, according to prices for eight major fertilizers tracked by DTN.While no fertilizer has moved a significant amount, which DTN designates as 5% or more in either direction, a majority of fertilizers were lower for the first time in ten weeks.Six fertilizers declined ...