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7 Aug 2018
By Del DeterlingProgressive Farmer Contributing Editor When Chandler Lindsley picked up the reins as manager of her family's Backbone Ranch in 2011, she already had a good idea about how best to use the resources she had inherited. "We had plenty of grass and water," she said of the 47-year-old Texas operation. "What we needed was a way to convert ...
7 Aug 2018
By Anthony GrederDTN Managing Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- Corn and soybean progress continued at a faster-than-normal pace last week, while good-to-excellent condition ratings for both crops declined slightly, according to the USDA National Ag Statistics Service's weekly Crop Progress report released Monday. Nationwide, 57% of corn was in the dough stage...
6 Aug 2018
By Jerry HagstromDTN Political Correspondent WASHINGTON (DTN) -- Bloomberg News, Dow Jones/The Wall Street Journal, the National Press Club, the National Press Foundation and DTN/The Progressive Farmer have sent a letter to Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue challenging USDA's decision last month to abolish the "lockup" during which news organizati...
6 Aug 2018
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- Responding to the U.S. push for higher tariffs on Chinese goods, Chinese officials announced Friday they would impose new tariffs on $60 billion of U.S. products, adding up to more than 5,200 items. Without giving specifics on the items involved, China said its new tariffs would range from 5% to ...
6 Aug 2018
By Todd HultmanDTN Analyst Part of my job as DTN's grain market analyst is to keep track of price trends for various markets and let our readers know when those trends change. Most of the time, it is not hard to spot new highs or lows when important support or resistance levels are being broken. For most of the year, price changes in grains happen ...