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30 Jun 2023
The 2023 June Stocks and Acreage report from the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) was a double shocker, with soybean acres sharply lower than trade expectations and corn acres sharply higher. Following the release of the USDA reports, November soybean futures soared on planted acres that were 4 million below the March intentions. COR...
30 Jun 2023
By DTN Analysts This article was originally posted at 11:08 a.m. CDT on Friday, June 30, and updated again at 11:17 a.m. and 11:20 a.m. It was last updated with additional information at 11:20 a.m. CDT on Friday, June 30. ** OMAHA (DTN) -- USDA on Friday released its Acreage and June 1 Grain Stocks reports. USDA said farmers planted 94.1 million ac...
29 Jun 2023
It's deja vu all over again when it comes to wildfire smoke filling the skies over the central U.S. in summer. For the second time in three seasons, haze from Canadian wildfires has blanketed Midwest skies. And that again raises the question of what impact -- if any -- smoky skies could have on developing crops. In 2021, the fire source was in the ...
28 Jun 2023
On Friday, June 30, at 11 a.m. CDT, USDA will issue its annual Acreage report and the Grain Stocks report for June 1, a combination that may briefly turn traders' attention from the weather forecasts. ACREAGE REPORT Despite the boos one can generate by mentioning USDA's 91.7-million-acre corn planting estimate from 2019 to any farm audience, USDA's...
26 Jun 2023
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (DTN) -- An eagle-eyed crop scout in Iowa has found the first tar spot lesions of the year. An Iowa State University undergraduate student working with Pioneer field agronomist Matthew Vandehaar observed the disease on June 21. In all, tar spot has been found in six central Iowa counties, including Poweshiek, Tama, Marshall, Jas...