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12 Jan 2018
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter WASHINGTON (DTN) -- On Oct. 11, 2008, one of the nation's largest ethanol producers, VeraSun Energy, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The action left thousands of farmers who sold corn to the South Dakota company's ethanol plants at a loss. What compounded those losses, attorney Joseph A. Peiffer said, is...
12 Jan 2018
By Darin NewsomDTN Senior Analyst As I've said countless times over the years, USDA's January set of numbers are the Super Bowl (overhyped), Daytona 500 (a lot of noise) and Kentucky Derby (come and gone quickly) of government reports. So much is made over so little actual information by so many. Keep an eye on post-report chatter, because most o...
12 Jan 2018
By John HarringtonDTN Livestock Analyst Long before there was GPS, industrial lasers and 3-D topographical mapping, there was Burl Hooker, the land-leveling genius of my youth who Dad would call whenever he decided drought conditions had stolen another corn crop by late July for the last time. Burl would arrive at the project site armed with nothin...
11 Jan 2018
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor NASHVILLE, Tenn. (DTN) -- The law of unintended consequences has followed close on the heels of the new tax law, and it is coming down on private grain companies. Language added to the tax law in December to help boost farmer cooperatives could end up causing famers to deliver their grain and other commodities ...
11 Jan 2018
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Average retail fertilizer prices picked up where they left off at the end of 2017, continuing to move higher the first week of January 2018, according to retailers surveyed by DTN. For the first time in several weeks, all eight of the major fertilizers are now higher. However, the price of only one fe...