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20 Jul 2018
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter Editor's Note: DTN/The Progressive Farmer's reporting on non-soybean dicamba damage uncovered the uneasiness this issue has caused in rural communities as damage pits neighbor against neighbor and farmers and applicators against the non-farming public. Because of that conflict, this article includes an anonymous...
20 Jul 2018
By Jerry HagstromDTN Political Correspondent WASHINGTON (DTN) -- The House on Wednesday passed by voice vote a motion to proceed to conference on the farm bill, which is numbered HR 2 and titled the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018. The House also passed a Democratic motion to instruct conferees to insist on 10-year permanent funding for an anim...
20 Jul 2018
By Lin TanDTN China Correspondent BEIJING, China (DTN) -- Both soybean meal and soybean oil markets in China have remained relatively calm over the past two weeks after China started taxing U.S. soybeans with a 25% punitive tariff on July 6. The Dalian Commodity Exchange (DCE) closed at RMB 3168 per ton ($471.57 a ton), $2.68 a ton lower, on the d...
20 Jul 2018
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- EPA had not planned to address small-refinery waivers in a public hearing on Wednesday, but farmers and biofuels groups had other ideas as they unloaded on the agency. EPA is seeking comments on the latest proposed Renewable Fuel Standard volumes, which across the board show increases in nearly every ...
19 Jul 2018
By Elaine KubDTN Contributing Analyst "Nine Year Low," are what the headlines are saying about soybeans. And it was an almost uninterrupted freefall that got us here, starting with the month of March, when the front-month soybean futures chart topped out at $10.71 per bushel. It drifted lower for a while, but ever since Memorial Day the August soyb...