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25 Jul 2018
By Jerry Hagstrom DTN Political Correspondent and Chris Clayton DTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA, (DTN) -- Reactions vary wildly to the Trump administration's plans to provide $12 billion in aid to American farmers through direct assistance, food purchases and trade promotion. While farm groups largely thanked the White House for the aid, at least some ...
24 Jul 2018
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor LA VISTA, Neb. (DTN) -- Bill Even jumped on stage last week at the United Soybean Board's long-range planning meeting and enthusiastically talked about how pork and beans go together. Even, the CEO of the National Pork Board, rattled off numbers about the record size of the pork herd and the reliance on soybean...
24 Jul 2018
By Anthony GrederDTN Managing Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- The good-to-excellent condition rating for the nation's corn crop was unchanged last week while soybeans' good-to-excellent rating was up slightly, according to the USDA National Ag Statistics Service's weekly Crop Progress report released Monday. NASS estimated that 72% of the nation's corn was i...
24 Jul 2018
By Mary KennedyDTN Cash Grains Analyst The 2018 Wheat Quality Council spring wheat and durum tour will begin and end in Fargo, North Dakota, with scouts gathering Monday, July 23, in the evening and then heading out to check fields July 24 through the morning of July 26. Similar to last year, day one will cover the southern half of North Dakota, so...
23 Jul 2018
OMAHA (DTN) -- Cattle and calves on feed for the slaughter market in the United States for feedlots with capacity of 1,000 or more head totaled 11.3 million head on July 1, 2018, USDA reported on Friday. The inventory was 4% above July 1, 2017. This is the highest July 1 inventory since the series began in 1996. The inventory included 7.13 million ...