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11 May 2016
By Alastair StewartDTN South America Correspondent BALCARCE, Argentina (DTN) -- Argentina was well on course for a bumper soybean crop until the rain started falling in April. Showers were incessant for most of the month across the north of the grain belt, catching the soybeans right at harvest time, when they really needed to be dry. "The effects...
10 May 2016
By Jerry HagstromDTN Political Correspondent WASHINGTON (DTN) -- Trade Representative Michael Froman announced Tuesday that the United States is mounting a challenge in the World Trade Organization to China's continued use of antidumping and countervailing duties against imports of U.S. chicken broiler products. In bringing the case, the U.S. furt...
10 May 2016
By Chris Clayton Ag Policy Editorand Emily Unglesbee DTN Staff Reporters WASHINGTON (DTN) -- U.S. corn ending stocks for the crop planted this spring (2016-17) are projected at 2.15 billion bushels and if realized would be the highest since the mid-1980s. Soybean ending stocks are projected at 305 million bushels for new crop beans, which came in ...
9 May 2016
By Cheri ZagurskiDTN Managing Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- The week ended May 8 was quite productive for U.S. farmers, according to USDA's weekly Crop Progress report. Corn planting advanced by nearly 20 percentage points and soybean planting leapt ahead 15 percentage points. Corn is 64% planted, compared to 45% last week, 69% last year and a five-year a...
9 May 2016
By Emily Unglesbee DTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Researchers have scored a major victory in agriculture's war against insect resistance. Thanks to a revolutionary new technique developed in a Harvard lab, Monsanto scientists are working to rapidly produce Bt proteins designed specifically to defeat insects that have evolved resistance...