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16 Sep 2015
By Elaine KubDTN Contributing Analyst Now that we've been firmly back in the universe of abundant crops and low crop prices for a while, it seems that free storage and delayed pricing programs are a thing of the past. It's one of farming's ironies that when prices are profitable and you don't really need to wait to price grain, grain companies are ...
16 Sep 2015
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- A fall outbreak of highly pathogenic bird flu tops the minds of state agricultural directors, who called on Congress and the Obama administration to ensure there are enough resources to respond to another destructive spread of the virus. The National Association of State Departments of Agricultur...
16 Sep 2015
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- Ben Grumbles is an unabashed champion of the total maximum daily load, the so-called 'pollution diet' in place to reduce runoff of agriculture nutrients into the Chesapeake Bay. But the former Environmental Protection Agency official acknowledges TMDLs may not be the right approach for all par...
15 Sep 2015
By Todd HultmanDTN Market Analyst Just one year ago, USDA estimated U.S. ending soybean stocks for 2014-15 at a hefty 475 million bushels, based on 3.583 billion bushels of total use. As DTN Senior Analyst Darin Newsom pointed out as early as January 2015, and as I wrote about in the article, "Just Between Us" in April, USDA has a history of undere...
15 Sep 2015
By Jerry HagstromDTN Political Correspondent WASHINGTON (DTN) -- Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy said Tuesday that EPA is determined to stick to its promise to issue the volume requirements under the Renewable Fuel Standard, but she declined to provide any details of the proposals that would reassure ethanol producers th...