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8 Feb 2019
By Todd HultmanDTN Lead Analyst After five weeks of dark offices, USDA's lights are back on and the department is ready to issue final corn and soybean crop estimates for 2018, new crop estimates for South America, Dec. 1 grain stocks totals and an estimate of winter wheat seedings. The excitement begins at 11 a.m. CST on Friday, Feb. 8, and promis...
8 Feb 2019
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- The EPA will get another hearing on a federal court's 2018 order to ban all chlorpyrifos registrations, as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit granted the agency an en banc hearing in an order handed down on Wednesday in San Francisco. In August 2018, the EPA asked for the hearing that wil...
7 Feb 2019
By Todd HultmanDTN Lead Analyst OMAHA (DTN) -- This week's export sales report should be viewed as bullish for corn and bearish for soybeans, wheat and milo, according to DTN Lead Analyst Todd Hultman. For the week ended on Dec. 27, USDA reported 19.8 million bushels (mb) (503,100 metric tons) of corn export sales for 2018-19 and none for 2019-20. ...
7 Feb 2019
OMAHA (DTN) -- The U.S. Census Bureau said Wednesday that U.S. exports of goods and services totaled $209.9 billion in November, down $1.3 billion from October. Imports totaled $259.2 billion, down $7.7 billion on the month. The resulting trade deficit of $49.4 billion for November was down from $55.7 billion in October. USDA later provided more de...
7 Feb 2019
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- President Donald Trump called for the continued rebuilding of American trade policy in his State of the Union address Tuesday evening, pointing to the ongoing trade negotiations with China as something that's overdue. Trump touted the elimination of the "death tax" but made no mention of biofuels at a...