Entries for October 2018
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30 Oct 2018
DTN Early Word Opening Livestock 10/30 05:49 Meat Futures Seem Staged to Open Moderately Higher Look for the cattle futures to open moderately higher on Tuesday morning, supported by follow-through technical buying and short-covering. Along the same lines, lean hog futures should start out on a firm basis thanks to residual buying interest evident ...
29 Oct 2018
DTN Closing Livestock Comment 10/29 17:11 Lean Hog Futures Launch Tail-End of October With Solid Price Progress Live cattle futures opened business for the week on a mixed basis. Lean hog issues got up on the right side of the bed to start the week. By John Harrington DTN Livestock Analyst GENERAL COMMENTS: Activity in feedlot country was typically...
29 Oct 2018
By Todd HultmanDTN Analyst With combines back in the fields again this week, the bears were back out in force as far as crop prices were concerned. From last Friday's close to Thursday afternoon, December corn was down 6 cents and November soybeans were down 15 cents, also pressured by disappointing exports. In the case of soybeans, we have to kee...
29 Oct 2018
By Dan Crummett Progressive Farmer Contributor The early evening of Aug. 11, 2016, saw Megan King and her husband, Buddy, working calves on horseback near their home in Okeene, in northwest Oklahoma. "We had to move a dead calf," King recalled, "and I was dallying the rope on my saddle horn when I dropped the rope and somehow spooked the horse I wa...
29 Oct 2018
By Mary KennedyDTN Basis Analyst OMAHA (DTN) -- Distillers dried grains spot prices from the 40 locations DTN contacted were mixed, but the average price was up $1 per ton at $134 per ton versus two weeks ago for the week ended Oct. 25. Based on the average of prices collected by DTN, the value of DDG relative to corn for the week ended Oct. 25 wa...