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29 Jul 2019
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- A large outdoor soybean pile at a floodwater-surrounded grain elevator in northwest Missouri was glowing bright yellow and orange and appeared to be covered in flames Friday, nearly two weeks after the grain combusted during a heat wave. Earlier in the week, black smoke was seen rising from the p...
29 Jul 2019
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor VERNON CENTER, Minn. (DTN) -- The latest round of Market Facilitation Program payments will inject some needed cash into the rural economy starting next month, but farmers continue to watch and wait for better trade opportunities. Kevin Paap, president of the Minnesota Farm Bureau, talked about Thursday's announ...
29 Jul 2019
By Todd HultmanDTN Lead Analyst It doesn't seem that long ago Hurricane Harvey hit Texas in August, followed by Hurricane Irma in September. That was in 2017, and in both cases cotton production was lost. In some cases, even bales already harvested were ruined in the storms. Early 2018 saw cotton plantings increase to 14.1 million acres from 12.7 m...
26 Jul 2019
By Charles Wallace DTN Contributor FARGO, N.D. (DTN) -- The 2019 Wheat Quality Council's Hard Red Spring Wheat and Durum Tour ended Thursday with an overall average spring wheat yield of 43.1 bushels per acre (bpa), up from 41.1 bpa last year, but still below the five-year average of 44.6 bpa. This year, the tour's 62 crop scouts stopped at 356 sp...
26 Jul 2019
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- The 2019 crop season has had just about everything thrown at it -- so why not add a little irony to the list? After a spring of continuous, slow-moving, widespread storm systems that flooded fields and stalled planting, many farmers now find their crops are in need of, well, a little mor...