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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...