Ag Weather Forum
John Baranick
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Wednesday, September 11, 2024 1:30 PM
Hurricane Francine is expected to make landfall in southern Louisiana Wednesday evening as a Category 2 hurricane. Flooding, thunderstorms, and gusty winds will accompany Francine as it moves into the Southern Delta.
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Monday, September 09, 2024 11:35 AM
A combination of a tropical wave and a front in the Gulf of Mexico is starting to organize. The National Hurricane Center is forecasting it to become a hurricane before landfall, likely sometime late Wednesday in Louisiana.
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Friday, September 06, 2024 6:02 PM
Warm and largely dry conditions during the last week or two have helped producers push through harvest pretty well. That continues into next week, though we'll see some storm systems moving through that could make it a bit more challenging.
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Monday, August 05, 2024 7:19 PM
For Alberta, in the provincial early yield estimates, regional dryland crop yield estimates are at or below the 5- and 10-year averages, with the exception of a higher-than-average yield expectation reported for the South Region as of July 30. In Saskatchewan, as of July 29, the conditions of crops throughout many regions are stressed, causing yield potential to further decline during the week.
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Monday, August 05, 2024 7:19 PM
For Alberta, in the provincial early yield estimates, regional dryland crop yield estimates are at or below the 5- and 10-year averages, with the exception of a higher-than-average yield expectation reported for the South Region as of July 30. In Saskatchewan, as of July 29, the conditions of crops throughout many regions are stressed, causing yield potential to further decline during the week.
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Wednesday, July 24, 2024 4:02 PM
Warmer conditions over the past week advanced crop growth. With recent rainfall events, precipitation accumulation in most areas has exceeded 135 percent of normal precipitation since May 1.
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Fundamentally Speaking
Joel Karlin
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Tuesday, September 10, 2024 3:53 PM
Percent change in the U.S. and top 18 soybean growing states ratings as of the beginning of this month vs. the first week of September ratings a year ago and also the percent change in yields from the August 2024 USDA projection vs. the final 2023 yields also for each of the top states and the U.S.
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Monday, September 09, 2024 3:53 PM
Percent change in the U.S. and top 18 corn growing states ratings as of the beginning of this month vs. the first week of September ratings a year ago and also the percent change in yields from the August 2024 USDA projection vs. the final 2023 yields also for each of the top states and the U.S.
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Wednesday, August 28, 2024 2:29 PM
Old crop soybean sales and shipments as a percent of the August old crop export estimate vs. new crop sales as a percent of the August new crop export estimate, both as of the third week in August.
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An Urban's Rural View
Urban Lehner
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Monday, September 02, 2024 10:52 PM
Governments have tried, and mostly failed, to reduce food waste. South Korea, though, has cured one of the harms food waste causes.
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Thursday, August 22, 2024 7:50 PM
Different versions of industrial policy can have very different implications for agriculture.
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Wednesday, August 07, 2024 4:10 PM
The stock market crash got most of the attention, but the increase in the unemployment rate is much more important to the Federal Reserve as it considers lowering interest rates.
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Ag Policy Blog
Chris Clayton
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Wednesday, September 11, 2024 12:17 PM
Agriculture and rural America were not mentioned but the debate did spotlight a few key issues for ag such as taxes, tariffs, illegal immigration and energy policies.
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Monday, September 09, 2024 11:14 PM
Agricultural policy leaders from both political sides on Monday discussed the need for a new farm bill but disagreed on key issues like trade, taxes, labor and climate policy at a forum hosted by the Farm Foundation.
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Monday, September 09, 2024 5:20 PM
Congress right now is looking at potentially extending the current farm bill. Lawmakers are returning this week with a short window to pass legislation that will keep the federal government operating after Sept. 30, the end of the fiscal year. A letter from 300 farm groups and other stakeholders was sent to Congress, asking that a farm bill be passed this year.
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Harrington's Sort & Cull
DTN Staff
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Monday, September 09, 2024 8:02 PM
The cattle complex has been challenged since the beginning of July, which has cow-calf producers worried about this fall's market.
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Sunday, September 08, 2024 6:33 PM
Wyoming cattle have died from anthrax, which has led to a quarantine of cattle in a localized area to try to prevent spread of the disease.
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Monday, September 02, 2024 11:08 PM
Nebraska's governor has signed an executive order banning state agencies from buying lab-grown protein products and create a new rule to add more labels for those products. Three other states have either banned the sale of lab-grown meats or added similar restrictions.
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Technically Speaking
DTN Staff
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Monday, August 19, 2024 4:24 PM
November soybeans have been battered and beaten up. The market was already reeling when USDA came up with one million additional acres of soybeans planted and a record yield of 53.2 bpa. In the past few weeks, soybeans have registered new contract lows as funds reveled in the constant influx of bearish data. However, there are a few reasons to believe the worst could be over for soybeans.
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Monday, August 12, 2024 3:25 PM
September Chicago wheat shows hints of buying at their lowest prices in nearly four years but haven't yet been able to break resistance.
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Monday, August 05, 2024 4:49 PM
With poor economic news such as the unemployment rate rising to 4.3% filtering out in the past week and the surge in the Japanese yen, the U.S. Dollar Index has plunged to its lowest level since March. Typically, that would be very supportive for U.S. wheat, as would the expected decline in major exporter wheat stocks.
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Minding Ag's Business
Katie Dehlinger
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Monday, September 09, 2024 6:37 PM
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit last month rejected appeals filed by attorneys who represented farmers in the Syngenta corn settlement. The attorneys for years have been contesting court allocations of compensation for legal fees in the case.
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Friday, June 07, 2024 5:39 PM
On Friday, June 14, DTN will host a webinar examining the cattle market's long-term outlook and how producers can use livestock risk protection insurance to protect their business from downside market risk.
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Wednesday, May 08, 2024 7:26 PM
While rain may slow the national planting pace, some growers will get a few windows of opportunity. Anxiety about U.S. planting and Brazilian flooding has changed the market trend.
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Tuesday, September 10, 2024 2:31 PM
More than 50 groups including agriculture and biofuels interests joined a coalition of industries in challenging the Biden administration's tailpipe emissions standards that they say illegally targets the elimination of liquid fuels.
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Monday, September 09, 2024 12:06 PM
A bipartisan group of lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives last week asked U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to finalize guidance for the 45Z Clean Fuel Production tax credit by Jan. 1, 2025, to include domestic feedstock provisions.
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Monday, September 09, 2024 12:06 PM
A bipartisan group of lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives last week asked U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to finalize guidance for the 45Z Clean Fuel Production tax credit by Jan. 1, 2025, to include domestic feedstock provisions.
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Machinery Chatter
Dan Miller
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Friday, July 12, 2024 5:44 PM
The Space Weather Prediction Center has issued a minor-level geomagnetic storm watch for this weekend. A storm of this intensity will have little to no impact on farming guidance systems.
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Friday, July 12, 2024 5:44 PM
The Space Weather Prediction Center has issued a minor-level geomagnetic storm watch for this weekend. A storm of this intensity will have little to no impact on farming guidance systems.
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Wednesday, July 03, 2024 4:23 PM
A family legacy in farming has to start with a tractor being added to the farm to help make it more productive. On our farm, it was a Farmall Super M that has been driven by four generations.
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South America Calling
DTN Staff
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Thursday, September 05, 2024 5:09 PM
Very dry conditions in central Brazil give concern to producers about on-time planting of soybeans. If the wet season rains are delayed, the crunch will be on for the safrinha (second-crop) corn and cotton season in 2025.
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Friday, August 30, 2024 5:04 PM
Soil conditions are awfully dry to start out the 2024-25 campaign in much of Argentina and Brazil. The weather pattern during the next couple of weeks is not favorable for very many down there.
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Thursday, August 22, 2024 5:35 PM
South American farmers will start to plant their 2024-2025 crop in the next several weeks. Here are the areas of concern in Argentina and Brazil, as well as a closer look at what role a developing La Nina could play for this year's crop.
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Market Matters Blog
DTN Staff
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Wednesday, September 11, 2024 1:43 PM
As the Southern harvest progresses, it won't be long before harvest picks up farther north, and low river water levels are not a welcome sight currently.
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Wednesday, September 11, 2024 1:43 PM
As the Southern harvest progresses, it won't be long before harvest picks up farther north, and low river water levels are not a welcome sight currently.
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Wednesday, September 11, 2024 1:43 PM
As the Southern harvest progresses, it won't be long before harvest picks up farther north, and low river water levels are not a welcome sight currently.
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Production Blog
Pam Smith
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Tuesday, September 10, 2024 9:37 PM
Don't let Gibberella ear rot complicate harvest this fall. Scout now to identify fields where issues may arise.
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Tuesday, September 10, 2024 12:05 AM
Corn condition was rated 64% good to excellent, and soybean condition was rated 65% good to excellent as of Sunday, Sept. 8. Spring wheat was 85% harvested.
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Sunday, September 08, 2024 6:07 PM
Harvest is in full swing for DTN's View From the Cab farmers in Idaho and Kentucky. This week they give an update and talk current economic views.
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Editors' Notebook
Greg D.Horstmeier
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Sunday, September 08, 2024 6:28 PM
We're hearing combines are warming up in the Midwest, while things stay hot and dry for South American plantings. A critical WASDE report hits Thursday. Plus, a chance to meet us at a farm show this week.
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Monday, August 26, 2024 4:19 PM
One person can make a difference as an advocate for a worthy cause. No one is too young or too old to make a difference and be a Voice for Agriculture.
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Wednesday, August 14, 2024 1:55 PM
The 2024 DTN Digital Yield Tour features new proprietary yield models built by DTN data scientists.
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