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24 Jun 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- The governors of Iowa, Minnesota and South Dakota over the weekend each issued emergency declarations as heavy rains that began late last week flooded rivers throughout the region. Flood warnings remain in place Monday and areas south of those already hit are expected to see major rivers cresting through at least July 1. A swath of c...
23 Jun 2024
DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- The landscape views from Dan Lakey's cab make farming in southeastern Idaho's high country a breathtaking proposition. This week, however, a cold front plunged temperatures into the 20s Fahrenheit and lower to deliver a breathtaking gut punch. "This was a farm-wide frost that got to every field to some degree over a 50-mile r...
21 Jun 2024
By DTN Staff This article was originally published at 2:03 p.m. CDT on Friday, June 21. It was last updated with additional information at 2:57 p.m. CDT on Friday, June 21. ** OMAHA (DTN) -- Cattle and calves on feed for the slaughter market in the United States for feedlots with capacity of 1,000 or more head totaled 11.6 million head on June 1, 2...
20 Jun 2024
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- Seed companies involved in an ongoing environmental cleanup at a former ethanol plant in Mead, Nebraska, are set to resume a pilot project started last year to remove wet cake from the abandoned AltEn site west of Omaha. In November 2023, the seed companies that once sent pesticides-laden seed to the plant as a feedstock to p...
20 Jun 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- Friday's Cattle on Feed report isn't expected to rattle the market, as the analysts' estimates for the report are neutral. What will be important to note is the number of cattle on feed, those weighing 1,000 pounds or more. Given what we've recently seen in the cash cattle market, one is led to believe that supplies of market-ready c...