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24 Sep 2018
Editor's Note: This article was originally posted at 2:02 p.m. CDT. It was reposted with additional information at 2:46 p.m. CDT. ** OMAHA (DTN) -- Cattle and calves on feed for the slaughter market in the United States for feedlots with capacity of 1,000 or more head totaled 11.1 million head on Sept. 1, 2018. The inventory was 6% above Sept. 1, 2...
24 Sep 2018
By Todd HultmanDTN Analyst A week ago Thursday, I was driving back to Omaha with DTN Senior Ag Meteorologist Bryce Anderson, and we were surveying one corn field after another along I-80. We had just come from three days of speaking engagements at Husker Harvest Days in Grand Island, Nebraska, and still had USDA's latest crop estimate fresh on our ...
21 Sep 2018
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- Roughly 150 farmers attended a meeting Tuesday night in Ashby, Minnesota, looking for answers about the closed Ashby Farmers Cooperative Elevator and its former manager, who allegedly stole at least $2 million from the elevator before disappearing earlier this month. An audit of the grain coopera...
21 Sep 2018
By Bryce AndersonDTN Senior Ag Meteorologist OMAHA (DTN) -- Forecasts for heavy rain in the Upper Midwest for the final days of the official 2018 summer season have been verified -- and the result is not favorable for harvest. From eastern South Dakota to across northern Iowa, southern Minnesota and into southern Wisconsin, rainfall of 2 to 5 inch...
21 Sep 2018
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter LONDON, Ohio (DTN) -- At 6 feet, 8 inches tall, with a bushy, orange beard, Aaron Wilson towers very visibly above the crowds at Ohio State University's Farm Science Review. But it's what he's talking about that really makes him stand out at the annual farm trade show. In addition to OSU Extension, Wilson work...