Wednesday, September 17, 2025 1:11PM CDT
Fertilizer prices continued to be mixed for the second week of September 2025. Four of the eight major fertilizers were higher in price compared to last month while the other four were less expensive. One fertilizer, DAP, was considerably higher looking back a month. DTN designates a significant move as anything 5% or more.
Tuesday, September 16, 2025 2:43PM CDT
The Trump administration released a proposal Tuesday to reallocate biofuels gallons lost to small-refinery exemptions to the Renewable Fuel Standard from 2023 to 2025.
Tuesday, September 16, 2025 1:32PM CDT
Midwestern pasture and range conditions are hurt by the lack of rain. Drought-type conditions spread in Southern cow-calf states.
The jury is still out on the 2025 soybean crop; but a decision may be close at hand. Dryness in parts of the southern and eastern Midwest in August might very well have compromised...
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Scatterplot of week 36 U.S. corn ratings vs. the percent that the USDA's September yield forecast deviates from the 25-year trend of the September estimates vs. the percent that th...
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The value of agricultural trade was rising the U.S., Mexico and Canada under the USMCA for all three countries until this year, though statistics show USMCA also has been a major f...
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Forty-two members of Congress are pressing the Trump administration to minimize Renewable Fuel Standard volumes increases and to not reallocate gallons lost to small-refinery exemp...
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In 2026, more pesticide labels are likely to require measures to protect endangered species. EPA is offering a webinar next week to help farmers navigate these requirements.
With the market's fundamentals not expected to lend much support in upcoming weeks, as seasonally this is a time in which fed prices typically regress and boxed beef prices do too,...
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The Federal Reserve resumed cutting interest rates after holding them steady for nine months. Future cuts seem likely, but how fast and how far remain uncertain.
Even though headlines suggest ending stocks of many of the principal field crops fell sharply compared to the previous year, in reality, the totals were above recent estimates, jus...
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December corn is steady, November soybeans are down 4 cents, December KC wheat is up 1 1/4 cents, December Chicago wheat is up 2 1/4 cents, and MIAX December Minneapolis wheat is steady.
It appears cattle futures have run out of steam as the weakness on Wednesday nearly eliminated the gains of the week. The expectation for lower cash and weak boxed beef provides the pressure. Hog futures had nothing positive to influence traders with the continued weakness this week.