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11 Apr 2019
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- As African swine fever continues to spread across the world -- most recently showing up in South Africa -- the National Pork Producers Council on Wednesday took the rare step of canceling the industry's World Pork Expo scheduled for June 5-7 in Des Moines, Iowa. The World Organization for Animal Healt...
10 Apr 2019
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Average retail prices for the majority of fertilizers were slightly higher the first week of April 2019, according to retailers surveyed by DTN. This brings to an end a string of several weeks when prices for the majority of fertilizers were lower. Six of the eight major fertilizers were slightly highe...
10 Apr 2019
By Elaine KubDTN Contributing Analyst When is an error not a mistake? If we're talking about forecasting, then "error" is just the term for how much difference is ultimately noted between the formerly predicted value and the actual value. In 2018, U.S. producers ultimately planted 89.129 million acres (ma) of corn compared to a March Prospective Pl...
10 Apr 2019
By DTN Staff This article was originally posted at 11:01 a.m. CDT. It was last updated at 12:14 p.m. CDT. ** OMAHA -- USDA expects larger corn stocks remaining from the 2018-19 crop season. The agency pegged U.S. corn ending stocks at 2.035 billion bushels (bb), up from the 1.835 bb predicted by USDA in early March. Soybean ending stocks were actu...
10 Apr 2019
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor WASHINGTON (DTN) -- House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson said Tuesday he sees the need to help farmers with losses in grain bins from Midwest floods. But he said the notion $3 billion is needed for Midwest disaster aid is "baloney." Peterson, D-Minn., met Tuesday with members of the North America...