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10 Apr 2019
By Elaine KubDTN Contributing Analyst When is an error not a mistake? If we're talking about forecasting, then "error" is just the term for how much difference is ultimately noted between the formerly predicted value and the actual value. In 2018, U.S. producers ultimately planted 89.129 million acres (ma) of corn compared to a March Prospective Pl...
10 Apr 2019
By DTN Staff This article was originally posted at 11:01 a.m. CDT. It was last updated at 12:14 p.m. CDT. ** OMAHA -- USDA expects larger corn stocks remaining from the 2018-19 crop season. The agency pegged U.S. corn ending stocks at 2.035 billion bushels (bb), up from the 1.835 bb predicted by USDA in early March. Soybean ending stocks were actu...
10 Apr 2019
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor WASHINGTON (DTN) -- House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson said Tuesday he sees the need to help farmers with losses in grain bins from Midwest floods. But he said the notion $3 billion is needed for Midwest disaster aid is "baloney." Peterson, D-Minn., met Tuesday with members of the North America...
9 Apr 2019
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor WASHINGTON (DTN) -- Canada could announce a new list of retaliatory tariffs on more U.S. goods, including agricultural products, as early as next week. The tariffs would maintain parity with the U.S. over steel and aluminum tariffs the Trump administration imposed against Canada. David MacNaughton, Canada's amb...
9 Apr 2019
By Anthony GrederDTN Managing Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- U.S. winter wheat condition improved last week, while spring wheat planting, reported for the first time this season in USDA NASS' weekly Crop Progress report on Monday, was behind the five-year average pace. For the week ended Sunday, April 7, winter wheat was rated 60% in good-to-excellent condi...