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19 Oct 2015
By Cheryl AndersonDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Cattle feeders are looking at the highest estimated losses since January 2009 as fed cattle prices have dropped drastically over the past month. Fed cattle prices declined more than $20 per cwt from late August to early October, and early estimates of September losses are as high as $350 per head...
16 Oct 2015
By Katie MicikDTN Markets Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- Farmers are likely to increase corn acreage next year, private analytical firm Informa Economics said in a report. Corn plantings are forecast to increase 90.8 million acres, up 2.8% from 2015's acreage. Informa's early acreage estimates are based on a profitability analysis and adjustments associate...
16 Oct 2015
By Marcia Zarley TaylorDTN Executive Editor WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE, Ohio (DTN) -- The three dozen farmer members and managers of PACI bristle when you describe their organization as a buying club. Instead, they joke about printing t-shirts with the real benefit of membership: "Combine, $225,000; Grain Bins, $1.2 million; Information, Priceless." PA...
16 Oct 2015
By Cheryl AndersonDTN Staff Reporter The past week has been a quiet one for the dried distillers grains market, with lower prices finally resulting in higher inclusions rates and better local demand. The DTN weekly DDG spot price average remained unchanged this week at $116 per ton. Finally leveling off, this is the first week the average has not ...
15 Oct 2015
By Elaine KubDTN Contributing Analyst "Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else." I suspect that when Leonardo da Vinci wrote those words in the 15th century he was referring to the muscle structures of human and horse anatomy, and he wasn't thinking about natural gas prices and cash bids for corn in North Dakota. But ...