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13 Jul 2016
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Fertilizer prices continued to work lower the first week of July 2016, according to retailers tracked by DTN. While prices are lower, no fertilizer value moved significantly lower, thus snapping a three-week run of notable price drops. All eight of the major fertilizer were lower in price compared to...
13 Jul 2016
By Jerry HagstromDTN Political Correspondent WASHINGTON (DTN) -- The House Rules Committee voted Tuesday to advance S. 764, the genetically modified foods disclosure and labeling bill, to the House floor, setting up for debate without amendments and a vote this week. The bill is a compromise written by Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Pat Robe...
13 Jul 2016
By Alan BruglerDTN Contributing Analyst USDA surprised the trade Tuesday by cutting old-crop U.S. corn stocks to 1.701 billion bushels from 1.708 billion in the June report. That is actually 30 million bushels tighter than the 2014-15 ending stocks figure. This had not been expected, as the June 1 corn stocks number released on June 30 had indicate...
12 Jul 2016
By Darin NewsomDTN Senior Analyst In corn, it's hard to imagine projected production at a record 14.54 billion bushels and ending stocks of 2.081 bb, the largest since the 2004-2005 marketing year, as bullish. But that was the reaction to USDA's July Crop Production and Supply and Demand reports. OK, maybe the numbers weren't bullish, just not as b...
12 Jul 2016
By Todd HultmanDTN Analyst As Elaine Kub reminded us last week, this is pollination time for corn and the hit or miss of those liquid drops from heaven have billion-dollar consequences. The sudden drop in corn prices the past three weeks has been dizzying as rain across the Midwest erased over $4 billion from the value of old-crop holdings and lop...