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11 Sep 2024
DODGE CITY, Kan. (DTN) -- The demand for high-quality beef has led to a shift in cattle genetics and management, to get better quality grades, according Paul Dykstra, supply management and analysis director for Certified Angus Beef. Dykstra recently discussed how a shift has been seen in the percentage of cattle in the USDA prime and choice quality...
11 Sep 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump clashed on a broad range of issues in their debate Tuesday night. A few key topics in rural America were addressed while others were ignored. Neither candidate, for instance, mentioned any legislation such as the farm bill. 1: HARRIS PITCHES NEW TAXES; TRUMP SAYS RENEW HI...
11 Sep 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- Average retail prices for seven of the eight major fertilizers continued to be slightly lower than last month during the first week of September 2024, according to sellers surveyed by DTN. For the seventh week in a row, no fertilizer price showed a substantial move in either direction. DTN designates a significant move as anything 5%...
10 Sep 2024
By DTN Staff OMAHA (DTN) -- Dry weather has extended into the Eastern Corn Belt with several states seeing an increase in poor pasture conditions for the week ended Sept. 9, according to the latest data from USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service. Surveys show the states of Illinois, Indiana and Ohio have had an increase in poor-to-very-po...
10 Sep 2024
USDA's corn and soybean production estimates will include objective yield data from the fields for the first time in Thursday's Crop Production and World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) reports and will get traders' attention, at least for a day. Analysts are expecting modest changes in the numbers, but there is still room for surp...