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9 Mar 2016
By Jerry HagstromDTN Political Correspondent WASHINGTON (DTN) -- Senate Agriculture Committee leaders appear to be moving toward modifying a bill that would ban state laws mandating the labeling of foods containing genetically modified ingredients, but require food companies to post information about genetically modified ingredients on websites or...
8 Mar 2016
By Alastair StewartDTN South America Correspondent SAO PAULO, Brazil (DTN) -- Brazil will plant more corn than ever before in 2015-16, despite depressed international prices. But record production is not yet assured with weather risks accentuated in the Cerrado this season. "Farmers will be planting a lot of corn. We are praying there will be enou...
8 Mar 2016
By Marcia Zarley TaylorDTN Executive Editor NEW ORLEANS (DTN) -- Many producers attending last week's Commodity Classic in New Orleans are feeling the burn of two or three consecutive years of negative incomes. But modest profit margins could return sooner than farmers think if serious cost cutting accelerates, some agricultural lenders say. U.S. r...
8 Mar 2016
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Some retail fertilizer prices are continuing to slip lower, but others have reversed course the first week of March, according to fertilizer retailers surveyed by DTN. This falls in line with reports of higher wholesale prices in recent weeks and signs the trend is spreading to the retail fertilizer ma...
7 Mar 2016
By Mary KennedyDTN Cash Grains Analyst Ice cutters will have an easier job on Lake Superior and the rest of the Great Lakes, and shipping could begin earlier than normal on the upper Mississippi River thanks to warm weather this winter. The ice cutter Alder is currently parked in the Twin Ports as she awaits her spring ritual of cutting ice on Lake...