Entries for June 2019
RECENT NEWS
26 Jun 2019
DTN Closing Grain Comments 06/26 14:05 Chicago Wheat Nears High; Row Crops End Lower September Chicago wheat closed up 6 1/2 cents at $5.46 1/2 Wednesday, another reminder of how poorly the SRW wheat crop fared through this year's wet weather. Meanwhile, December corn and November soybeans both closed lower, showing some nervousness about Friday's ...
26 Jun 2019
Editor's Note: Each year the Kansas City Board of Trade (now part of the CME Group), the Kansas Grain & Feed Association, the Kansas Wheat Commission and Kansas Association of Wheat Growers provide updates of the Kansas wheat harvest. Today's update is the first report of the 2019 harvest. This is day 1 of the Kansas Wheat Harvest Reports, brought...
26 Jun 2019
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- Arguing against regulations classifying livestock as drugs, the National Pork Producers Council wants the Food and Drug Administration to yield regulatory oversight to USDA for gene-edited animals raised for food. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue also told farmers over the weekend he would lob...
26 Jun 2019
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- June is nearing an end, but you wouldn't know it from looking at many corn and soybean fields this year. "It's looking great -- if it was the first of May," Missouri farmer Bob Birdsell said of his corn crop, which he finished planting June 14, unthinkably late in most years. But at lea...
26 Jun 2019
WASHINGTON, June 26, 2019 - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue today kicked off the 10th annual Feds Feed Families Campaign at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) headquarters in Washington D.C. The food drive is an annual event in which federal employees around the country collect food for distribution by food banks, food pantries, and shelt...