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29 Sep 2017
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter WASHINGTON (DTN) -- Old-crop (2016-17) corn ending stocks have swelled to a 30-year record of 2.295 billion bushels, according to estimates published in USDA's quarterly Grain Stocks report Friday. While up 32% from last year, that number actually came in below pre-report analyst expectations. At 301 million bu...
29 Sep 2017
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is considering a major change to the Renewable Fuel Standard that could include offering biofuel credits attached to gallons of ethanol exported from the United States. Already this week, the U.S. biofuels industry took a punch to the gut when the EPA announced...
29 Sep 2017
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- The weeds under the pivot in April spoke volumes to Kansas farmer Karl Jacobson. A carpet of flowering henbit sliced a slim, purple path through an otherwise pristine soybean field, marking precisely where the center pivot had blocked the Kansas farmer's herbicide pass the previous fall....
28 Sep 2017
By Elaine KubDTN Contributing Analyst Throughout this past droughty summer, whenever I would drive through a county where the crops were struggling, I would think to myself, "Well, even if their yields aren't great, and even if the futures prices aren't great, at least their local basis should perk up." I was thinking that local elevators would see...
28 Sep 2017
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- Groups such as the American Farm Bureau Federation were "encouraged" by the initial framework for tax reform put on the table Wednesday by Republican leaders in Congress. Zippy Duvall, president of the Farm Bureau, said tax reform is essential to helping farmers and ranchers facing financial chall...