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21 Mar 2018
By Todd HultmanDTN Analyst If we didn't know anything about grain markets other than Friday's Commitment of Traders data, we might think things are going pretty well across rural America. After all, noncommercial traders were 75% long in corn, 76% long soybeans, 87% long soybean meal and 69% long in K.C. wheat. That is a lot of bullish optimism. A...
20 Mar 2018
By Jim PatricoProgressive Farmer Contributing Editor Grandpa licked a finger and held it up to check the direction of the wind. Back then, that was the state of technology for checking the weather. Today, a high-tech on-farm weather station can track your cell phone and send text message alerts when the wind is about to rise in your exact location....
20 Mar 2018
By Jim PatricoProgressive Farmer Contributing Editor Training in proper spray techniques has never been more important. Once upon a time, a spray rig wasn't much more sophisticated than a garden sprinkler towed behind a lawn tractor. Unfold the boom, climb on and spray. Not so these days. Today's self-propelled sprayers have more computing power th...
20 Mar 2018
By Mary KennedyDTN Cash Grains Analyst Similar to the excitement surrounding the spring home opener for your favorite professional baseball team, river terminals in the Upper Mississippi River (UMR) are also excited to see the sleeping river wake up after a long winter and once again fill up with barges. It's also good news for grain and feed shipp...
19 Mar 2018
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- U.S. rice, cranberries, sweet corn, orange juice, kidney beans, peanut butter, tobacco and whiskey are among the agricultural products listed by the European Union to face retaliatory tariffs in Europe due to the Trump administration's push for tariffs on steel and aluminum imports. The European C...