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8 Oct 2020
There's only one thing that can take the fun out of selling $10 soybeans across the scale at harvest: Convincing yourself the soybean market is so overwhelmingly bullish that it definitely ought to be headed toward $11, $12, the moon! There are certainly enough people out there who will make that case for you, on farm media panel shows or getting c...
8 Oct 2020
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- As summer 2020 advanced, a common question surfaced in parts of the Corn Belt this summer: Why are my beans so short? The effect was clearly on display when Pioneer field agronomist Ryan Van Roekel laid out some soybeans in south-central Iowa at Corteva Agriscience's Virtual Media Event on Oct. 6. The plant's nodes were clus...
7 Oct 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- A sharply rising corn price paid by Neeley Biofuels' hypothetical ethanol plant on Monday took a bite out of the plant's profit margin since DTN's last update on Aug. 14. The 50-million-gallon plant in South Dakota paid $3.79 per bushel for corn on Monday, a spike from $3.25 paid in the middle of August based on the October futures p...
7 Oct 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- USDA asked for input and received a mixed response to a proposal to require radio frequency identification, or RFID tags, to be the official tag for interstate movement of cattle, following the end of a 90-day public comment period on Monday by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. The now-closed comment period asked for in...
7 Oct 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- The pork industry in the United States is getting ready to release a volunteer "contract tracing" program for hogs that the industry hopes would stave off an export and supply crisis should a viral disease for swine show up in the U.S. As the global pork industry watches Germany from afar, the U.S. Pork Checkoff has focused attention...