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9 Nov 2020
On Thursday, Nov. 5, DTN's index of cash soybean prices closed at $10.53 per bushel, the highest in over four years. It is a remarkable achievement in the year of COVID-19, and we can't say prices are done going up yet. U.S. soybean export commitments have already reached 81% of USDA's export estimate for 2020-21 and China's domestic soybean price ...
6 Nov 2020
Luke Wilhite was born into soybean cyst nematode (SCN) management. By the time he entered the world in 1991, his father, Pete, had recently identified and gone to battle with an invisible enemy lurking under their soybean fields in central Iowa. "He had struggled growing decent soybeans for years," Wilhite recalled. "He was only getting 20 to 30 bu...
6 Nov 2020
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- State regulators are reeling from a sudden apparent policy change by EPA that will make restricting pesticides -- such as dicamba -- beyond the federal label much harder for states to accomplish in the years ahead. The policy change was announced in a single footnote, buried amid dozens of pages of regulatory documents accom...
6 Nov 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- The EPA has asked the Supreme Court for an extension to file a response to a refiner's petition for review of an appeals court's January 2020 ruling on small-refinery exemptions. HollyFrontier Corp. appealed to the high court in September after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit in Denver turned down a request for the who...
5 Nov 2020
Back in the height of summer, here's what a central-Iowa grain elevator was bidding for new-crop corn: -- On Aug. 7, 2020: 40 cents under the December 2020 futures contract. Ultimately, here's what that elevator was actually paying for corn at the gut slot of harvest: -- On Oct. 19, 2020: 10 cents under the December 2020 futures contract. The first...