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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...
3 Jun 2022
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- The director of the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality told federal officials on Thursday that the so-called "significant nexus" test used to determine whether waters are federally jurisdictional needs to be scrapped. In its place, Misael Cabrera told EPA and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officials during a waters of ...
2 Jun 2022
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- Oswego, Kansas, cattle trader John Rife has been banned for life from trading and fined nearly $270,000 for repeated violations of the Packers and Stockyards Act dating back to 2008, according to a default judgment entered by the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas. The lifetime ban comes as a result of breaching p...