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14 May 2018
By Lin TanDTN China Correspondent CAMPO VERGE, Brazil (DTN) -- Brazilian farmers are happy about current soybean prices and are continuing to sell both old-crop and new-crop soybeans. A Brazilian consulting company, AgRural, said recently that farmers had sold 64% of old-crop soybeans (2017-18), as well as 6% of new-crop bean (2018-19) by the end o...
14 May 2018
By Dave Vrbas DTN Special Correspondent YORK, Neb. (DTN) -- A pilot program between a handful of high school FFA programs and a major seed company is attempting to sow the seeds for future careers in agribusiness. The new agronomy curriculum program, officially implemented at York High School in York, Nebraska in November, has proven very successfu...
11 May 2018
By Darin NewsomDTN Senior Analyst The USDA is nothing if not relatively predictable. Note that isn't the same as being "accurate." USDA released this morning its May USDA Crop Production and World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) reports. Let's take a quick look at one of my favorite report charts, the one showing USDA's changing do...
11 May 2018
By Chris Clayton DTN Ag Policy Editor and Emily Unglesbee DTN Staff Reporter WASHINGTON (DTN) -- One of the first looks at the 2018-19 crop production projects the U.S. corn crop at 14.04 billion bushels with an average yield of 174 bushels per acre. The May World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) offers the first forecasts for crop...
11 May 2018
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor WASHINGTON (DTN) -- The chairman of USDA's World Agricultural Outlook Board -- the group that produces the monthly World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) -- fired back this week at a report by an agricultural software and satellite firm challenging USDA's data collection methodology that produc...