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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...
15 Sep 2015
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Retail fertilizer prices continue to decline as has been the case over the past few weeks, according to retailers tracked by DTN for the second week of September 2015. All eight of the major fertilizers slipped in price compared to a month prior. Two fertilizers were significantly lower. 10-34-0 was ...
14 Sep 2015
By Katie MicikDTN Markets Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- Escalating farm subsidies in China, India, Turkey and Brazil cost U.S. wheat farmers nearly $1 billion in revenue every year, a new study by the wheat industry shows. Those four countries have dramatically increased subsidies for wheat production over the past decade to levels that exceed their World...
14 Sep 2015
By Mary KennedyDTN Staff Reporter MINNEAPOLIS (DTN) -- Individual states could decide whether to raise the maximum allowable weight for freight-shipping trucks from the current 80,000 pounds to 91,000 pounds under a bill introduced in the U.S. House on Sept. 10. U.S. Representative Reid Ribble, R-Wis., who introduced the Safe, Flexible, and Efficie...