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14 Sep 2021
MT. JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- Gro Intelligence's national corn and soybean yield models barely budged in the month following the DTN Digital Yield Tour, with each dropping by only 0.1 bushel per acre. USDA's estimates over the same timeframe increased and moved closer to Gro's. As of Sept. 13, Gro Intelligence pegged the national average corn yield at...
13 Sep 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- Members of the House Agriculture Committee rose early Monday to vote along party lines to advance nearly $66 billion in spending for research, rural development and forestry programs that will be rolled into the potential $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation bill. The vote, including a series of amendment roll-call votes that also fel...
13 Sep 2021
After getting burned by regulators, Kansas City Southern (KCS) railroad shifted tracks yet again over the weekend, going back to the proposed merger with Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) and offering Canadian National Railway (CN) a chance to amend its proposal. It's among the latest moves in the merger battle among the Class I railroads to build a si...
13 Sep 2021
Caleb Hamer has learned a lot about patience being in the seed-growing business. It was mid-June, and he needed to be spraying herbicides with his father, Ted, and business partner, Scott Beenken, that day near Traer, Iowa. But he had just received the seed to plant the last 97 acres of foundation soybean seed for Bayer Crop Science, and planting t...
10 Sep 2021
By DTN Staff This article was originally posted at 11:01 a.m. CST. It was updated at 12:54 p.m. ** OMAHA (DTN) -- USDA on Friday released its September Crop Production and World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) reports. USDA on Friday raised its corn yield estimate by 1.7 bushels to 176.3 bushels per acre (bpa), pushing estimated pr...