DTN Ag News


05/22/2013 - Senators seeking to overhaul sugar policies argued in vain that food-processing and confectionary jobs are lost to Canada because of import restrictions and tariffs that protect a small number of domestic sugar growers.

05/22/2013 - More than half the states allow you keep your estate intact forever -- as in 500 or 1,000 years or more. But other methods may achieve the same goal without handcuffing your heirs.

05/22/2013 - Recent Grain Belt land surveys and appraisals show mixed results for farmland values. Most studies show appreciation slowing or even slightly negative in late 2012 and early 2013.

05/21/2013 - Growers planted corn like never before this past week, and technology led the way.

05/21/2013 - Farmers are in a constant battle to balance things such as water: not too much and not enough can both cause problems.

05/21/2013 - Fertilizer retailers expected some price movements in different forms of nitrogen, but that has yet to emerge.

05/20/2013 - Corn planters were rolling hard in the past week as producers now have 71% of the crop in the ground, up 43 percentage points from this time last week.

05/20/2013 - The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals last week ruled in favor of Monsanto in a lawsuit filed by environmental groups and others that said Roundup Ready alfalfa was harming endangered species and causing spread of noxious weeds.

05/20/2013 - Despite complaints from Canada and Mexico, USDA has moved ahead with attempts to rewrite its rule following a trade case in the WTO against the U.S. that concluded USDA's original label discriminated against livestock from other countries. Canada has threatened to offer a list of U.S. products for retaliatory tariffs if the new rule goes into effect.