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16 Aug 2019
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- At the American Coalition for Ethanol's annual conference in Omaha this week, the group's CEO, Brian Jennings, urged an industry on the ropes to continue to look to the future and to not stand on the sideline while the EPA continues to grant small-refinery waivers. Ethanol companies are losing money, ...
16 Aug 2019
By Katie Dehlinger DTN Farm Business Editor and By Emily Unglesbee DTN Staff Reporter MOUNT JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- Corn yields in Illinois, Indiana and Ohio could be 12% to 15% below USDA's forecasts from earlier this week, according to Gro Intelligence's latest yield estimates. The DTN/Progressive Farmer 2019 Digital Yield Tour, powered by Gro Int...
16 Aug 2019
By Emily Unglesbee DTN Staff Reporter And Katie Dehlinger DTN Farm Business Editor ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- This year's challenging growing season will trim production across the northern Corn Belt this year, as corn and soybean yields in Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin slip lower in 2019. The DTN/Progressive Farmer 2019 Digital Yield Tour, powered by...
15 Aug 2019
By Elaine KubDTN Contributing Analyst It may be obvious to anyone who filled out their own Farm Service Agency (FSA) acreage maps this year, but less so to others in the industry, so I thought it would be worthwhile to point out the math behind the mechanism that resulted in 11,210,627 acres being counted by the USDA's Farm Service Agency as "cor...
15 Aug 2019
By Pamela SmithDTN Progressive Farmer Crops Technology Editor DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- Like many farmers, Scott Wallis had a hard time swallowing the August Crop Production and World Agricultural Supply and Demand (WASDE) reports that came out this week. "I expected a lower planted acreage figure, but an increase in average national yield makes no se...