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31 Jul 2018
By Anthony GrederDTN Managing Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- Good-to-excellent condition ratings for the nation's corn and soybeans were both unchanged last week, according to the USDA National Ag Statistics Service's weekly Crop Progress report released Monday. NASS estimated that 72% of the nation's corn was in good-to-excellent condition as of Sunday, Ju...
31 Jul 2018
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- The European Court of Justice (ECJ) -- the European Union's highest court -- has ruled that gene-edited products should be treated like genetically modified organisms (GMOs), which are subject to substantial regulation in the EU. The decision may seem distant and removed from American fa...
30 Jul 2018
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- President Donald Trump and his administration may have succeeded in getting some kudos in agriculture this week with the announcement of a $12 billion trade aid package, the prospect of more soybean exports to the European Union and some encouraging talk on biofuels. The White House made a major ...
30 Jul 2018
By Todd HultmanDTN Analyst Reporting on grain markets is often like taking in a baseball game. You can watch a lot of innings go by where nothing happens. The next moment, you turn your head and the game changes in an instant. That's how it went for wheat prices this week. In this column just last week, I explained how fundamentals were subtly bec...
30 Jul 2018
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- The Wheat Quality Council's Hard Red Spring and Durum Wheat Tour ended Thursday with an estimated average spring wheat yield of 41.1 bushels per acre (bpa), above 38.1 bpa last year, but below the five-year average of 45.4 bpa. In total, the tour visited 342 spring wheat and durum fields...