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30 Jul 2018
By Todd HultmanDTN Analyst Reporting on grain markets is often like taking in a baseball game. You can watch a lot of innings go by where nothing happens. The next moment, you turn your head and the game changes in an instant. That's how it went for wheat prices this week. In this column just last week, I explained how fundamentals were subtly bec...
30 Jul 2018
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- The Wheat Quality Council's Hard Red Spring and Durum Wheat Tour ended Thursday with an estimated average spring wheat yield of 41.1 bushels per acre (bpa), above 38.1 bpa last year, but below the five-year average of 45.4 bpa. In total, the tour visited 342 spring wheat and durum fields...
27 Jul 2018
By Jerry HagstromDTN Political Correspondent WASHINGTON (DTN) -- Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb on Thursday said the FDA intends to make decisions about the labeling of cow's milk and plant-based milk "in relation to potential public health consequences" as part of its program to modernize standards of identity. In a state...
27 Jul 2018
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- The second day of the Wheat Quality Council's Hard Red Spring and Durum Wheat Tour wrapped up with an average hard red spring wheat yield of 41.3 bushels per acre (bpa), up from 35.8 bpa last year. The tour visited 135 spring wheat fields and 13 durum fields. Durum fields averaged 39.2 b...
27 Jul 2018
By John HarringtonDTN Livestock Analyst Several weeks ago, Joni Ernst, junior senator, Iowa, was being questioned by the moderator of CBS' "Face The Nation" on the topic of trade war and the significant price the Trump administration's policy was extracting from pork producers and soybean farmers in her red/purple state. With the steeled gaze of so...