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27 Dec 2017
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26 Dec 2017
By Todd HultmanDTN Analyst In last week's column, we talked about buying inexpensive put options as one way for grain producers to protect themselves from the risk of falling prices. We also mentioned how many are under the false impression that 90% of options expire worthless and how a recent Farm Credit Services of America survey found that onl...
26 Dec 2017
By Todd HultmanDTN Analyst OMAHA (DTN) -- Each year, DTN publishes our choices for the top 10 ag news stories of the year, as selected by DTN analysts, editors and reporters. We complete our countdown Friday with the No. 1 story of the year: defying expectations and weather extremes in various parts of the country, a record high corn yield of 175.4...
26 Dec 2017
By Greg D. HorstmeierDTN Editor-in-Chief OMAHA (DTN) -- The DTN countdown of the 10 most influential stories in agriculture is an annual ritual in the DTN newsroom. Like the mad dash for the last few Christmas presents or the threat from Senior Analyst Darin Newsom to bring scrapple to the newsroom holiday snack party, a year's end would not be the...
22 Dec 2017
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Capping the price of biofuel credits at 10 cents would essentially eliminate the Renewable Fuel Standard mandate for biodiesel and possibly hurt corn-based ethanol, according to an analysis by farmdoc at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. In meetings with President Donald Trump's administrat...