As harvest continues to ramp up, producers are looking for drier weather to allow for rapid progress in bringing in the crop. After rain moved through the Eastern Corn Belt early this week, DTN meteorologist […]

Over the weekend, Taiwan threatened to take China before the World Trade Organization after Beijing suspended sugar apple and wax apple imports from the island nation due to pest concerns. Reuters says it’s the latest […]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (DTN) — NEW Cooperative in Fort Dodge, Iowa, confirmed Monday it had been hit with a ransomware attack that affected the grain cooperative’s operations, which include 60 elevator locations across north-central and […]

The USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is issuing a federal order suspending the movement of all pork and pork products from the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico into the U.S. Shipments of live […]

That National Corn Growers Association announced a new round of research grants to help farmers manage aflatoxin issues. The Aflatoxin Mitigation Center of Excellence (AMCOE) is accepting letters of intent from principal investigators, co-principal investigators, […]

Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough ruled against the Democrats’ plan to provide eight million green cards as a part of their $3.5 trillion spending bill. The Hill says that decision makes getting immigration reform to President […]

A hearing on milk pricing recently took place in the Senate regarding the Class One Milk Mover. Alan Bjerga, the Senior Vice President of Communications with the National Milk Producers Federation, says the hearing took […]

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland says the leadership of the Bureau of Land Management will be moving back to Washington, D.C., from Grand Junction, Colorado. The Hagstrom Report says the Trump Administration had previously moved the […]

The Republican leader in the House Agriculture Committee, Glenn Thompson of Pennsylvania, is urging Democrats and all of rural America to join in the call for changes to President Biden’s tax plan. Thompson says a […]

Key ag issues still linger in the wake of House committee action on the president’s massive “Build Back Better” budget. House Democrats completed committee work on the 3.5 trillion-dollar tax and spending plan, though changes […]

Export sales of wheat rose week-to-week, while corn and soybean sales in the first full week of the 2021-2022 marketing year were impressive. The USDA says wheat sales to overseas buyers totaled 617,000 metric tons, […]

Barge freight costs for moving grains from the Midwest rose sharply due to the continuing logistical problems over two weeks after Hurricane Ida hit the Delta Region. As grain handlers are scrambling to get operations […]

A group of House Democrats sent a letter to leadership asking for $75 million in funding for the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service to help prevent and prepare for a possible African Swine Fever […]