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13 Feb 2020
By Elaine KubDTN Contributing Analyst Even more than in most years, this February feels too early to start caring about new-crop grain prices. I've just returned from another road trip through eastern North Dakota, and although it's difficult to judge what proportion of corn fields are unharvested versus harvested (with the stubble now buried under...
12 Feb 2020
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter HOUSTON (DTN) -- With a tough year for the United States ethanol industry in the rearview mirror, the head of the Renewable Fuels Association said the future of ethanol and other biofuels will be in carbon-reduction efforts. The RFA's President and Chief Executive Officer Geoff Cooper told an industry audience at th...
12 Feb 2020
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter HOUSTON (DTN) -- A recent biofuels industry victory in a federal appeals court could spell the end of the small-refinery exemptions program in its current form, the lead attorney for the ethanol industry in the case said on Tuesday. Matthew Morrison, an attorney with Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP in Washington...
12 Feb 2020
By Dana MantiniDTN Senior Analyst The February World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report, as is typical, provided little fanfare for grain and soybean markets. Perhaps the most noticeable change was the larger-than-expected increase in the Brazilian soybean crop to a record-large 125 million metric tons (mmt) or 4.59 billion bus...
11 Feb 2020
By Chris Clayton DTN Ag Policy Editor and Jerry Hagstrom DTN Political Correspondent OMAHA (DTN) -- The White House released President Donald Trump's budget proposal for fiscal-year 2021 on Monday, which proposes many of the same cuts the Trump administration has proposed for USDA and agricultural programs in past years. Collectively, the budget ...