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24 Aug 2017
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- The healthiest crop in some fields this fall isn't corn or soybeans -- it's weeds. Towering above soybeans and poking out of cornfields, waterhemp, marestail, Palmer amaranth and giant ragweed escapes represent a lot more than lost yield. They promise to produce a seedbank that will clog...
23 Aug 2017
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Though United States agriculture soon would like to see a bilateral trade agreement reached with Japan, Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, told reporters Tuesday he doesn't see that happening in the near future because of ongoing efforts to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA. T...
23 Aug 2017
By Richard OswaldDTN Special Correspondent LANGDON, Mo. (DTN) -- While it looks good, Brent Judisch's crop could use more rain. "The corn looks good. Beans are OK but still need a rain. For August, all we've had is three rains, a half-inch, another half-inch, and six-tenths of an inch. We would like to have two more rains for the soybeans," said Ju...
23 Aug 2017
By Todd HultmanDTN Analyst Thanks to hot and dry weather earlier this summer, the seasonal high in December corn came later than usual this year when prices peaked at $4.17 1/4 on July 11. Since then, it has been all downhill for December corn. And, after prices broke a new low for 2017 on Aug. 10, it seems fair to say that corn's usual bearish sea...
22 Aug 2017
By Mary KennedyDTN Basis Analyst As the U.S. spring wheat harvest nears the halfway point, producers from around the Upper Midwest and Northern Plains are reporting a wide range of yields, protein levels and grain quality issues. For this week's column, I talked to several farmers, elevator managers and grain merchandisers to get their observatio...