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7 Nov 2023
OKLAHOMA CITY (DTN) -- Farmers and ranchers are expressing some anxiety about the downside risks they face with higher loan costs and potential black swan events. When a few Oklahoma farmers and ranchers got the chance Nov. 6 to raise some points about the farm bill and rural concerns with House Agriculture Committee Chairman Glenn "GT" Thompson, t...
7 Nov 2023
This time around, producer surveys and field data come from late October and early November, a time when producers have a stronger sense of how harvest has been going. USDA's new estimates of corn and soybean production will be released at 11 a.m. CST on Thursday, Nov. 9. Traders will also be watching for changes in crop estimates from around the w...
6 Nov 2023
This article was originally published at 3:04 p.m. CDT on Monday, Nov. 6. It was last updated with additional information at 3:26 p.m. CDT on Monday, Nov. 6. ** OMAHA (DTN) -- The U.S. corn and soybean harvests continued to outpace the five-year averages last week, and the condition of the winter wheat crop improved, USDA NASS reported in its weekl...
6 Nov 2023
OKLAHOMA CITY (DTN) -- Agricultural bankers are a little less concerned about inflation this year but are more uneasy about farmers' liquidity and income. A primary concern for agricultural lenders this year is to ensure their farmer customers have strong balance sheets and liquidity coming out of 2023, according to the Agricultural Lender Survey r...
5 Nov 2023
DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- Zachary Grossman is about to find out if there's a yield thief lurking in his soybean field and how persistent the pest might be. The Missouri farmer routinely plants soybean varieties that contain resistance genes from PI 88788 to defend against soybean cyst nematode (SCN). What he doesn't know is how well the defense mechan...