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5 Aug 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- USDA on Thursday announced that its USDA Market News on Monday, Aug. 9, will begin releasing price reports based on cattle sold on formulas, grids and contracts. The changes in reports come as USDA has been focusing on concentration in livestock markets and looking for ways to provide more price discovery beyond daily reported negoti...
5 Aug 2021
Haze from wildfires in the western U.S., along with western and south-central Canada, has been an ongoing feature across much of North America during summer 2021. Besides the concern over what the smoke particles will do to human health, there is also the question of how this material obscuring the heavens will affect corn during the important fill...
5 Aug 2021
INDIANOLA, Iowa (DTN) -- A central Illinois corn farmer will make a $24 per acre profit in 2022 after paying for inputs and land costs, according to the latest crop budgets from the University of Illinois. The return on soybeans fares better at $150 per acre because fertilizer, seed and drying costs for soybeans are projected to be $226 per acre ch...
5 Aug 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- President Joe Biden on Thursday is moving ahead aggressively with his administration's push to ratchet down greenhouse-gas emissions through electric vehicles. The president will sign an executive order to make half of all new vehicles sold in 2030 "zero-emission" vehicles, including battery, fuel-cell and plug-in hybrid electric veh...
5 Aug 2021
DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- Ryan Wieck recently lost a friend in a crop-dusting accident, and while that profession comes with extraordinary risks, such tragedy often triggers thoughts of one's own vulnerabilities. It doesn't help that the Texas Panhandle farmer has had his share of cringe-worthy near misses. Several years ago, he raised the high-cleara...