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18 Oct 2018
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor DES MOINES (DTN) -- The Trump administration on Wednesday announced ambitious plans to negotiate separate trade agreements with Japan, the European Union and the United Kingdom. Coming off the completion of the new North American free-trade deal -- the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) -- the Office ...
18 Oct 2018
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor DES MOINES (DTN) -- The gap is growing between global food demand in the future and the projection on the rate of growth for agricultural production, a new report shows. The 2018 Global Agricultural Productivity (GAP) Index, put together by the Global Harvest Initiative, continues to highlight that food producti...
17 Oct 2018
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Most people recall the heat of the 2012 drought. Jessie Alt remembers the sound. "In 2012, when soybeans were shattering due to dry conditions, the pod can really burst open and the seed can literally spread itself out and you can hear it happening -- it's like popcorn out in the field,...
17 Oct 2018
By Katie DehlingerDTN Farm Business Editor MOUNT JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- Acreage planted to organic field crops is on the rise while land planted to non-GMO corn and soybeans declined, according to a new report from Mercaris, a market data and trading platform for the identity-preserved grain industry. The number of farms certified under USDA's Na...
17 Oct 2018
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Ethanol profit margins at DTN's hypothetical 50-million-gallon plant in South Dakota hit their lowest levels of 2018 this week after corn prices dramatically increased in the past month. Including debt service and depreciation, Neeley Biofuels reported a net loss of 34.5 cents per gallon of ethanol pr...