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10 Nov 2016
By Alan BruglerDTN Contributing Analyst Yes, you read the headline correctly. Corn and soybeans have been in a bull move, or at least a corrective rally. Front-month soybean futures have rallied from $9.34 in September to $10.20 recently. Corn hit $3.01 before Labor Day and recently rose to $3.59 1/4 in the nearby futures. Prices have been pulled o...
10 Nov 2016
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor WASHINGTON (DTN) -- Chuck Conner had hardly slept Wednesday afternoon as he reflected on a historic, odds-defying election that was largely won by overwhelming support in rural America for President-elect Donald Trump. The win sets up great expectations for the new president and rural America, noted Conner, a f...
9 Nov 2016
By Darin NewsomDTN Senior Analyst The panic selling seen during the U.S. presidential election had lost its momentum in grains Wednesday morning, with soybeans actually climbing up about 6 cents at one point. Corn had crawled back to just above unchanged, while wheat gained 1 to 2 cents. Outside markets were a big help, mostly erasing Tuesday's ma...
9 Nov 2016
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor WASHINGTON (DTN) -- In an election result that may have seemed unfathomable just two years ago, a restless and divided United States chose Donald Trump to be its 45th president. The election will go down as one of the most stunning and sweeping victories in U.S. history as Trump and Republicans took both the pr...
9 Nov 2016
By Elaine KubDTN Contributing Analyst Writing started about 3,500 years ago, and we have the agricultural economy to thank for that. On hard-baked clay tablets, humankind's first writers carved little writing symbols, called cuneiform, and the very earliest examples of this writing depicted sheaves of barley and heads of cattle. In effect, the old...