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28 Feb 2022
All wheat futures closed sharply higher Thursday, Feb. 24, as markets reacted to the Russian army invading Ukraine after weeks of speculation. By the end of that day, U.S. agriculture companies in Ukraine ceased operations and the ports were closed. That meant any wheat or other commodities were not able to load out and ship to waiting customers. T...
28 Feb 2022
DENVER (DTN) -- Speaking to members of the National Farmers Union on Sunday, U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., said Senate leaders have told him they are willing to bring a pair of bills to the floor this spring to tackle the power of meatpackers in the marketplace, including a bill that would mandate a certain level of negotiated cash trade by large ...
28 Feb 2022
It has been a few months more than a year that Monarch Tractor, of Livermore, California, introduced the Monarch tractor, what the technology manufacturer said is the world's first fully electric, driver-optional smart tractor integrated onto a single platform. In the time since, Monarch has seen two major rounds of investment and an important lice...
25 Feb 2022
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- With three days until its de facto chlorpyrifos ban goes into effect, EPA doubled down on its decision, denying objections to the rule from agricultural groups and starting the process to cancel chlorpyrifos products. But in the background of these moves looms a lawsuit in the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, where a group o...
25 Feb 2022
Attention in South America has been focused across the southern half of the continent over the last couple of months -- and rightly so. Dryness and drought have built into Argentina and southern Brazil for quite some time thanks to La Nina. But La Nina is starting to lose its grip on the Pacific Ocean. The conditions still point to La Nina continui...