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12 Oct 2016
By Elaine KubDTN Contributing Analyst Spill your guts. Admit it -- you secretly like looking at corn piles better than bins. Just the way they look, bright yellow and shining in the sun, instead of hidden away and anonymous behind a curved steel shield. Well, you're not alone. The entire industry has learned to love piling grain out under the unl...
12 Oct 2016
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Two North Dakota farm groups now stand on opposite sides of a lawsuit challenging the state's corporate farming law. The North Dakota Farmers Union filed a motion Wednesday to intervene in a North Dakota Farm Bureau lawsuit that seeks to end the law. Voters rejected a proposal in the June primary elec...
12 Oct 2016
By Elizabeth WilliamsDTN Special Correspondent DES MOINES (DTN) -- The good news is more than three-quarters of the 113 countries in the 2016 Global Food Security Index have experienced food-security improvements over the past five years. How to sustain and improve that number was one of the discussion points Tuesday in conjunction with the Borlau...
11 Oct 2016
By Richard OswaldDTN Special Correspondent LANGDON, Mo. (DTN) -- "A couple more fields and we'll be done." That's the way DTN View From the Cab farmer Jim Hoover of Newport, Pennsylvania, described his harvest progress last week. But that's just full-season crops on the home farm. Jim won't be completely done until double-crop soybeans, after the ...
11 Oct 2016
By Todd HultmanDTN Analyst Just one day ahead of USDA's next round of row-crop estimates, it is no secret by now that the U.S. has had another good growing year and this fall's harvest is expected to be big -- record big. Dow Jones' survey of analysts expects Wednesday's report to peg the 2016 corn crop at a new high of 15.04 billion bushels. The...