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30 Aug 2018
By Elaine KubDTN Contributing Analyst Let's say two futures traders, on May 29, 2018, when the intentions of the U.S.-China trade war became clear, both decided to take a trading position that would profit as the soybean market reflected its suddenly bearish export prospects. Trader A simply called her futures broker and sold new-crop November soy...
30 Aug 2018
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- A 6-year-old mixed-breed beef cow in Florida tested positive for an atypical case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, USDA announced on Wednesday. USDA stated the animal never entered slaughter channels, and at no time posed a threat to the food supply, or to human health in the United States. USDA A...
29 Aug 2018
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor BOONE, Iowa, (DTN) -- Offering some assurances to Midwest farmers, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said Wednesday he got a call from President Donald Trump just as he was heading to the Farm Progress Show. "He called me just as I pulled into the gate and said, 'Sonny, we need to get that year-round E15 done. ...
29 Aug 2018
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- Commodity farmers can expect to collect a combined $4.7 billion in trade aid payments from USDA with soybean farmers receiving the bulk of those funds as USDA works to spread money around based on retaliatory trade tariffs against U.S. farm commodities. USDA leaders announced more details of the ...
29 Aug 2018
By Deborah R. Huso Progressive Farmer Contributing Editor Peter Fleming looks for crops that can maximize profits even in drought. That's one reason the North Carolina grower turned to sorghum, a crop University of Tennessee crop marketing specialist Aaron Smith calls "this ancient grain." Fleming grew up farming with his father in Yadkin County. I...