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29 May 2018
By Lin TanDTN China Correspondent SAO PAULO, Brazil (DTN) -- China and U.S. trade relations have greatly shaped Brazil's soybean export market in the past two months. Basis is currently weakening for Brazilian sellers since the U.S. and China agreed last week to dial back the trade rhetoric. July soybean basis (Paranagua paper market) traded May 25...
29 May 2018
By Bryce AndersonDTN Senior Ag Meteorologist OMAHA (DTN) -- The harsh drought over the southwestern U.S. is expected to last through most of the summer. That's the forecast from a drought and forecast update webinar held May 23. National Drought Mitigation Center climatologist Brian Fuchs offered a grim outlook for the region. More than two-thirds ...
25 May 2018
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Karl Jacobson, like many farmers in drought-affected areas, wants it to rain. The Concordia, Kansas, farmer has only seen two inches of rain fall on his north-central Kansas farm since November of 2017. "We had very little snow this winter and more wind than I can remember this spring," Jacobson told D...
25 May 2018
By Katie DehlingerDTN Farm Business Adviser MOUNT JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- Brazilian grain export facilities along the Amazon River are picking up a larger share of the country's growing exports, and waterways are playing a larger role in carrying corn and soybeans to port. Between 2010 and 2017, Brazilian exports of corn and soybeans increased by 14...
25 May 2018
By Dan MillerProgressive Farmer Senior Editor Tom Ries poured a new concrete floor in a one-time chicken house and, then, just kept going. "It wasn't in terrible shape. But, it needed some work," he says. The result was a compact 690-square-foot shop -- simple in many ways -- but one that meets Ries's needs for a dry and warm place to maintain a sm...