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19 Oct 2020
Back in late April when November soybeans fell as low as $8.31 a bushel, an offer to sell 2020 production at a cash price of $10 a bushel would have been met with a quick yes and thank you very much. Thursday, as DTN's index of national cash soybean prices closed at $10.06 a bushel, I can't help but think about the old fable of The Dog and His Refl...
16 Oct 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- A start-up company developing a heavy-duty truck engine able to run on straight ethanol has reached a milestone in a series of tests performed to validate its technology. ClearFlame Engine Technologies reported in a news release on Wednesday it matched the torque and power of a commercial diesel engine using ethanol in place of diese...
16 Oct 2020
By Logan Garcia Market Reporter - Fertecon Agribusiness Intelligence, IHS Markit The following is a breakdown of wholesale prices and trends of various fertilizers in the month of September and into the first two weeks of October. AMMONIA Domestic: By the end of September, all production states in the United States were reporting some level of corn...
16 Oct 2020
On a cold, snowy November day last year, Steve Wallpe watched one of Rogo Ag's SmartCore autonomous robots scoot around his fields taking and bagging soil samples. Two things instantly came to mind, recalls the Fowler, Indiana, farmer. He's glad it wasn't him pulling cores while shivering, and a robot with plenty of power to bore into hard soil at ...
15 Oct 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- The U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska has stayed proceedings in a lawsuit alleging ethanol market manipulation by Archer Daniels Midland, pending a motion to change venue in the case. Omaha-based Green Plains Inc. filed a class-action lawsuit in the court in July alleging ADM conducted a scheme to illegally depress the...