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7 Jun 2022
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- It wasn't pretty, but it got done -- that's the emerging motto of the 2022 planting season. With May rapidly slipping away, and corn seed still sitting in the planter, "Last week, we basically made the decision to just close our eyes and go," northwest Ohio farmer Genny Haun said. This spring was giving her family painful fl...
7 Jun 2022
OMAHA (DTN) -- Sounding alarm about drought and water stress in western states, senators and western water experts are trying to see how the next farm bill can play a role to keep western farmland in production. Led by Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., and Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, a Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Conservation, Climate, Forest...
6 Jun 2022
This article was originally posted at 3:05 p.m. CDT on Monday, June 6. It was last updated at 3:59 p.m. CDT on Monday, June 6. ** OMAHA (DTN) -- The pace of corn planting slowed last week, but nevertheless, farmers were able to push this year's planting progress ahead of the five-year average, USDA NASS said in its weekly Crop Progress report on Mo...
6 Jun 2022
As the old-crop year ended on May 31 for hard red winter (HRW) and soft red winter (SRW) wheat, the basis for both was trying to stage a recovery after the Russian invasion of Ukraine Feb. 24 sent winter wheat futures sharply higher as markets reacted to agriculture companies in Ukraine ceasing operations and the closing of ports there. In turn, ba...
6 Jun 2022
OMAHA (DTN) -- As if all the carbon programs involving agriculture weren't complicated enough, now the Commodity Futures Trading Commission is looking at the largely unregulated carbon arena to see if it demands some CFTC oversight. The CFTC convened an all-day meeting on June 2 to hear from the wide range of players in carbon markets, from the maj...