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13 Nov 2015
By Marcia Zarley TaylorDTN Executive Editor HADDONFIELD, N.J. (DTN) -- Farmland values may be off their peaks, but keen interest from Wall Street and other wealthy investors may keep real estate from tanking as deeply as it did in the last crash 30 years ago. Just take the buying spree of Farmland Partners Inc. (NYSE: FPI), one of the nation's fir...
13 Nov 2015
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ST. LOUIS (DTN) -- The final soybeans of 2015 are hitting the bins, but your fields may be far from empty. For the second year in a row, soybean diseases thrived in Midwestern fields and they've left their mark -- or rather, their fungus -- behind to keep the party going in 2016. White mold was especially prom...
13 Nov 2015
By Cheryl AndersonDTN Staff Reporter Except for some minor adjustments in a few locations, prices of dried distillers grains remained steady in the past week, with merchandisers noting that trade was quiet. The DTN weekly spot price average remained unchanged at $123 per ton after a four-week-long upward trend. This is still the highest level the a...
12 Nov 2015
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor KANSAS CITY, Mo. (DTN) -- Agriculture seems to be the one industry where different sectors are coalescing around support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Even as other business lobbies are taking a more wait-and-see attitude, leaders from several major agricultural groups gathered Wednesday in Kansas City to ...
12 Nov 2015
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Though the trial for the Des Moines Water Works' nutrient runoff lawsuit against government entities in Iowa's Raccoon River and Boone River watersheds is set for later next year, a clean water interest group in the state is acknowledging there's more to be done to reduce runoff and improve water qual...