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28 Sep 2016
By Elizabeth WilliamsDTN Special Correspondent MANHATTAN, Kan. (DTN) -- Some Grain Belt analysts question USDA's latest 2016 farm income estimates as overly optimistic. They doubt growers were able to shed as much in input costs this season as USDA's revised August estimates indicated. Kansas State University economist Allen Featherstone made tha...
28 Sep 2016
By Todd HultmanDTN Analyst While corn and soybean prices languish under the weight of this fall's anticipated record harvests, there has been one grain-related contract that has traded higher the past eight weeks. Not only is January soybean oil up 8% since the end of July, but spot soybean oil is within two cents of its highest price in two years....
28 Sep 2016
By Todd HultmanDTN Analyst While corn and soybean prices languish under the weight of this fall's anticipated record harvests, there has been one grain-related contract that has traded higher the past eight weeks. Not only is January soybean oil up 8% since the end of July, but spot soybean oil is within two cents of its highest price in two years....
28 Sep 2016
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- David Brown, of Carmine, Illinois, probably wouldn't call himself a Southerner. But the corn, soybean and wheat farmer is getting a taste of Southern crop management this year, after southern corn rust breached the Mason-Dixon line for the second year in a row. "We will have to be more p...
28 Sep 2016
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- As has been the trend in recent weeks, retail fertilizer prices continued to decline the third week of September 2016, according to retailers tracked by DTN. All eight of the major fertilizers are lower compared to last month. Leading the way lower again this week is 10-34-0. The starter fertilizer is ...