Entries for January 2019
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30 Jan 2019
FARM MARKET NEWS - CORN REPORT FOR Wed, January 30 Exchange rate was 1.3111 down 0.0150 Chicago corn closed slightly higher. MAR19 HI 3.81 1/2 DEC19 HI 4.04 LOW 3.77 1/2 LOW 4.00 3/4 CLOSE3.81 1/4 Up 4 CLOSE 4.03 3/4 Up 2 3/4 OLD CROP BASIS NEW CROP BASIS Location Spot 1mt 2mt 3mt U.S. $/bu $/mt Cntrct U.S. $/bu $/mt ELEVATORS +MAR19+MAY19+MAY19 CK...
30 Jan 2019
FARM MARKET NEWS - SOYBEAN AND WHEAT REPORT FOR Wed, January 30 Exchange rate was 1.3111 down 0.0150 Chicago soybeans closed narrowly mixed. MAR19 HI 9.24 NOV19 HI 9.62 3/4 LOW 9.17 1/4 LOW 9.56 1/2 CLOSE9.21 Up 2 CLOSE 9.60 Up 2 OLD CROP NEW CROP Location Basis 1mt 2mt 3mt U.S. $/bu $/mt BasisU.S. $/bu $/mt ELEVATORS +MAR1+MAR1+MAY19 CK Low 2.02 1...
30 Jan 2019
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor DES MOINES, Iowa (DTN) -- Andrew Wheeler, EPA's acting administrator, wasn't at the Iowa Renewable Fuels on Tuesday, but he was the focus of the industry's outlook on multiple fronts. At the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association booth was an oversized poster-card letter to Wheeler, calling on EPA to complete the rul...
30 Jan 2019
DTN Closing Grain Comments 01/30 13:49 Grain Prices Firm in Frigid Weather Grains traded mixed most of the session, but by the close March contracts of corn, soybeans and all three wheats were a little higher. April cattle pushed to a new contract high as livestock are encountering obvious stress.
30 Jan 2019
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who has the ugliest pigweed of all? The answer might surprise you. Scientists have recently uncovered the country's first four-way resistant Palmer amaranth populations in Kansas. So far, only in the land of Toto and Dorothy can a single pigweed population sur...