The Staggers Rail Act, named for its sponsor, Rep. Harley O. Staggers, a West Virginia Democrat, just celebrated its 40th birthday.

A technical look at the December corn, November soybeans and December Kansas City wheat markets.

Change in U.S. corn planted and harvested area in million acres and ending stocks in billion bushels (bb) vs. the change in yield in bushels per acre (bpa) from the USDA's June to... [Read Full Blog]

American Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy Duvall announced today that the 2021 Farm Bureau convention will be online only.

As satellite data become more ubiquitous, frequent and cheap, yield models like the ones DTN relies on for its Digital Yield Tour are expected to become more accurate, giving farme... [Read Full Blog]

Comments on the monthly climate report show doubts about crop moisture recharge before spring 2021.

POET LLC is expanding its production of hand sanitizer, breaking ground on a new facility at an ethanol plant in Alexandria, Indiana.

An invitation to dinner in the field is a thing to celebrate, even if the guests are a bit late.

The problem with such vast limits is that the market is volatile day in and day out regardless of what's happening fundamentally. Producers can be attuned to the market's happening... [Read Full Blog]

Showers are expected across much of the primary growing regions in South America, but needed moderate to heavy rains will be confined to just a few locations.

They may both be superpowers, but the U.S. and China don't get much respect these days in surveys of international opinion.

March may have been the worst of COVID-19's impact on machinery sales as buyers look beyond the pandemic to new technologies and improved markets.

Here we look at the cumulative deliveries of select prairie crops into licensed facilities as of week 10 as a percentage of total estimated farm supplies, calculated by adding the... [Read Full Blog]

DTN Staff Reporter Russ Quinn writes that the location where DTN has now moved its office to in Omaha is the place where he used to walk beans.