Entries for March 2019
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29 Mar 2019
USDA Daily Market Rates 03/29 06:48 HDR1010500000080329190700DAILY MARKET RATES(GRAIN/MISC COMMODITIES) Form Approved OMB No. 0560-XXXX Effective: March 29, 2019 ***NOTE CHANGES TO DIFFERENTIAL INFORMATION EFFECTIVE 03/29/19**** The following Market Rates are established to aid in the development of the Posted County Prices (PCPs) which are used by...
29 Mar 2019
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- Among the frustrations right now in selling commodities such as soybeans to China is that officials in the country are only allowing government-owned businesses to buy commodities, which is one of the main ways Chinese officials keep close restrictions on the market. Lindsay Greiner, president of...
29 Mar 2019
By DTN Staff OMAHA (DTN) -- United States inventory of all hogs and pigs on March 1, 2019, was 74.3 million head. This was up 2% from March 1, 2018, but down slightly from Dec. 1, 2018, USDA reported on Thursday. Breeding inventory, at 6.35 million head, was up 2% from last year, and up slightly from the previous quarter. Market hog inventory, at 6...
29 Mar 2019
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Confined animal feeding operations and other farming operations in the Raccoon River watershed in west-central Iowa would be required to implement numerical nutrient runoff standards, the state would have to implement a plan to restore the watershed, and CAFO construction or expansion would be halted ...
29 Mar 2019
DTN Early Word Grains 03/29 05:56 Grains Mixed Ahead of USDA May corn is down 1 cent per bushel, May soybeans are up 3/4 cents, and May K.C. wheat is down 1 1/4 cents. By Tregg Cronin DTN Contributing Analyst 6:00 a.m. CME Globex: May corn is down 1 cent per bushel, May soybeans are up 3/4 cents, and May K.C. wheat is down 1 1/4 cents. CME Globex R...