18 Dec 2024
USDA MARKET NEWS--AFTERNOON CATTLE REPORT 12/18/24 VOLUME USDA TOTAL RANGE DTN PRACTICAL RANGE WT AVG KANSAS CONFIRMED CASH SALES - TODAY: 38 WEEK TO DATE: 589 STEERS LIVE FOB No reportable trade STEERS LIVE DELIVERED No reportable trade HEIFERS LIVE FOB No reportable trade HEIFERS LIVE DELIVERED No reportable trade NEBRASKA CONFIRMED CASH SALES - ...
18 Dec 2024
USDA Daily Market Rates 12/18 DAILY MARKET RATES(GRAIN/MISCELLANEOUS COMMODITIES) Effective: December 18, 2024 The following Market Rates are established to aid in the development of the Posted County Prices (PCPs) which are used by county Farm Services Agency (FSA) Offices for loan redemption purposes. Uses of these rates for other purposes may no...
18 Dec 2024
DTN Early Word Livestock Comments 12/18 06:14 Livestock Traders Search For Price Direction Live cattle futures chopped around Tuesday as traders tried to find solid price direction. However, feeder cattle posted triple-digit gains, recovering the previous day's losses. Hog futures tried rebounding but traders were reluctant to buy aggressively with...
18 Dec 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- Congress on Tuesday released the details of a disaster package that includes nearly $31 billion overall for farmers. The year-end funding bill congressional leaders released includes nearly $21 billion to help farmers recovering from natural disasters and another $10 billion in economic aid to crop producers. Congress late Tuesday re...
18 Dec 2024
DTN Early Word Grains 12/18 05:55 Grain Markets Higher in Corn, Wheat and Lower Again in Soybeans March corn is up 1 cent per bushel, January soybeans are down 9 1/4 cents, March KC wheat is up 2 cents, March Chicago wheat is up 2 cents and March Minneapolis wheat is up 3 1/4 cents. Kent Beadle, DTN Contributing Analyst EARLY MORNING GLOBEX NET CHA...
18 Dec 2024
Editor's Note: Each year, DTN publishes our choices for the Top 10 ag news stories of the year as selected by DTN analysts, editors and reporters. This year, we're counting them down from Dec. 18 to Dec. 31. On Jan. 1, 2025, we will look at some of the runners-up for the year. Today, we start the countdown with No. 10: Labor unrest heats up in the ...
18 Dec 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- Average retail prices for four of the eight major fertilizers tracked by DTN were lower and prices for the other four were slightly higher during the second week of December 2024, according to sellers surveyed by DTN. As has been the case in recent weeks, no fertilizer price saw a significant move, which DTN designates as anything 5...
17 Dec 2024
DTN Chart Technical Points 12/17 16:30 DTN FUTURES 10 12/17/24 SLOW STOCHASTIC PRICES ARE DECIMAL MOVING AVERAGES RSI'S 5 Day 20 Day CONTRACT CLOSE 4-Day 9-Day 18-Day 45-Day 9Day 14Day 30Day %K %D %K %D CBTWT MAR 545.00 551.44 556.11 555.14 572.82 31.35 35.01 39.72 7 21 36 42 CBTWT MAY 554.50 561.50 565.42 564.56 582.81 32.09 35.36 39.62 5 22 38 42...
17 Dec 2024
DTN Closing Livestock Comment 12/17 15:51 Live Cattle and Lean Hogs Closed Lower While Feeder Cattle Powered Higher Although the live cattle complex closed lower, the feeder cattle market changed its direction and rounded out the day full higher. ShayLe Stewart DTN Livestock Analyst GENERAL COMMENTS: The livestock complex rounded out the day mixed ...
17 Dec 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- Congress appeared to reach an agreement on a year-end spending deal that includes $10 billion in economic aid to farmers and reportedly provides ethanol producers the opportunity to sell E15 year-round nationally. While House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., announced that a deal had been reached on a funding bill for the government and ...