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10 May 2022
COLUMBIA, Mo. (DTN) -- Farmers have a mixed bag of feelings as we head into a delayed 2022 planting season. The latest DTN/The Progressive Farmer Agriculture Confidence Index is a slightly optimistic 105.8, up slightly from the 98.5 in December and down 17 points from spring 2021. The latest survey of 500 farmers was conducted in late March and Apr...
10 May 2022
USDA's May 12 WASDE report will be the first in 2022 to offer a mix of old- and new-crop estimates, taking into account drought in several regions, the war in Ukraine and a new season of planting getting underway in the U.S. CORN The Thursday, May 12, World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report finds traders concerned about drough...
10 May 2022
ANKENY, Iowa (DTN) -- Soybean oil used to be so plentiful decades ago that restaurants, food manufacturers and other industries couldn't use it all. Surplus supplies were viewed as a waste product with little value. How times have changed. The fortunes of soybean oil have come full circle thanks to a renewable diesel fuel boom that is driving soy o...
9 May 2022
This article was originally posted at 3:04 p.m. CDT on Monday, May 9. It was last updated at 3:52 p.m. CDT on Monday, May 9. ** OMAHA (DTN) -- U.S. corn and soybean planting progress inched ahead by just single-digit percentages again last week as wet conditions across central, eastern and northern parts of the country continued to keep many farme...
9 May 2022
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- Two panelists from Iowa taking part in the EPA's first of 10 roundtable discussions on waters of the U.S. on Monday told the agency it was time to regulate agriculture to get a handle on nutrients pollution. The EPA hosted the first of 10 scheduled virtual roundtables on the ongoing WOTUS rulemaking, starting with what the ag...