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13 Oct 2017
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Farmers in the Western Corn Belt saw heavy rains in the last couple of weeks, which delayed the start of harvest. Now as it begins to dry some in locations, farmers are returning to their fields and are finding certain issues with their corn crops. Among the issues are premature corn kernel sprouting ...
13 Oct 2017
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter WASHINGTON (DTN) -- USDA pegged 2017-18 corn production at 14.28 billion bushels, on the high end of pre-report estimates and up 1% from the September forecast. The corn crop is expected to have an average yield of 171.8 bushels per acre, a 1.9-bushel increase compared to the September estimate. Soybean production f...
13 Oct 2017
By Darin NewsomDTN Senior Analyst In every set of monthly USDA Crop Production and Supply and Demand reports, including the October, there are hundreds of numbers for analysts and traders to look at. The spotlight is supposed to be on corn and soybean acres since USDA "might" use official Farm Service Agency data. More often than not, though, these...
12 Oct 2017
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor WASHINGTON (DTN) -- The National Academy of Sciences wants USDA's lead statistical agency to develop new systems for gathering information for crop reports and other surveys. In a report released Wednesday, the National Academy highlighted that the National Agricultural Statistics Service could make several chan...
12 Oct 2017
By Elaine KubDTN Contributing Analyst Today -- October 11, 2017 -- is exactly 100 years since the day my great-grandfather penciled the "built-on" date inside the big red barn on our family's farm. We had a good old-fashioned barn dance to celebrate last weekend, which was quite fun and totally worth all the hours of shoveling it required to get th...