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4 May 2017
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- If the tone of Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad's confirmation hearing to be the next ambassador to China is any indication, the nation's longest-serving governor is likely to cruise to approval in the U.S. Senate. Members of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations committee held a two-hour hearing Tuesday to gauge...
4 May 2017
By Pam SmithDTN Progressive Farmer Crops Technology Editor GARDEN CITY, Kan. (DTN) -- The second morning of the hard red winter wheat tour led scouts farther into areas struggling with weather woes. Rick Horton, a wheat farmer from Leoti, dug into snow banks on his farm to uncover wheat that a week ago would have had the potential to make 100 bush...
3 May 2017
By Todd HultmanDTN Analyst We already knew that noncommercial traders were heavily bearish in Chicago wheat in April, but after the spot price fell to a new contract low near $4.00, traders pushed even more chips on the table. Friday's Commitments of Traders Report from the CFTC showed noncommercials net short 130,036 contracts of Chicago wheat as ...
2 May 2017
By Jerry HagstromDTN Political Correspondent WASHINGTON (DTN) -- The chairman of the House Agriculture Committee and the National Cotton Council lashed out Monday at a pair of senior Democratic senators after learning the deal to fund the federal government does not include program changes that would help cotton farmers. Congressional appropriato...
2 May 2017
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- EPA will survive the federal budget year 2017 relatively unscathed, but looming in the background will be President Donald Trump's budget proposal for the agency for 2018. The omnibus budget bill working its way through Congress would allow EPA to keep nearly all of its current funding through Septem...