Ag News
Daily Average of December Corn, November Soybeans Closes
OMAHA (DTN) — The month of October is important for growers in the key Corn Belt states who purchase revenue-based crop insurance policies. It’s when...
Farmers Become a Messaging Focal Point Amid Shutdown and Trade Turmoil
OMAHA (DTN) — Both political parties and candidates are increasingly using farmers to make their cases as the country remains gridlocked over the government shutdown...
JBS Invests $135M in Iowa Sausage Plant to Open Fall 2026
PERRY, Iowa (DTN) — Just over a year after the Tyson pork plant closed its doors in Perry, Iowa, JBS Foods USA broke ground for...
ADM Moves to Dismiss Ethanol Pricing Lawsuit; Says Low Prices Benefit Consumers
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) — Archer Daniels Midland asked a federal court to dismiss one of a handful of lawsuits claiming the company profited by manipulating...
US Soybean Farmers Are Dangerously Overdependent on China
In my first months at DTN back in 2003, I was asked to speak on China at a farmers’ meeting in Iowa. I wasn’t an...
Rollercoaster Fall Weather Pattern for the Rest of October
It has generally been a quiet and warm first half of the fall season. But fall is a season of change and that usually means...
Shop for a Lender for 2026
Editor’s Note: Rising land costs, low grain prices, sharply higher input prices, market instability and other factors have combined to challenge profit margins for agricultural...
Mexican Border Closure Burdens Texas Feedyards and Mexican Cattle Producers
REDFIELD, Iowa (DTN) — The movement of New World screwworm (NWS) northward in Mexico shut down the U.S.-Mexico border to live cattle trade in July...
Farmers, Lenders Work Together to Help Farms Stay Profitable Even With Tighter Margins
Editor’s Note: Rising land costs, low grain prices, sharply higher input prices, market instability and other factors have combined to challenge profit margins for agricultural...
Feedlot Managers and Cow-Calf Producers Demand More Money
The cattle complex steamrolled through last week — closing higher every single day — seeming to prove traders clearly understand the market’s bullish trajectory points...
