Monday, October 26, 2026 3:34PM CDT Corn was 60% harvested, and the remaining crop was rated 56% in good-to-excellent condition as of Sunday, Oct. 25. Soybeans were 79% harvested.
Monday, October 26, 2026 11:54AM CDT A new FSA rule now treats LLCs and S corps as pass-through entities, prompting farmers to reconsider entity structure, weighing S corp tax savings against partnerships' greater flexibility and debt-basis advantages.
Monday, October 26, 2026 7:47AM CDT USDA on Friday revised its corn estimates for September, citing a processing error involving acreage weights that affected yield estimates out of Kansas and Nebraska. Despite the revisions, USDA did not change its October yield projection of 181.2 bushels per acre or its production projection of 16.034 billion bushels.
Predicted percent deviation from trend based on the regression between 25 years' worth of week 39 ratings and percent deviation figures from the 25-year trend vs. the USDA Sep yiel...
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Farmers are expected to receive $13.4 billion in ARC/PLC payments this month, but they also face fuel and oil expenses that are projected to be at least 29% higher than a year ago....
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Tropical moisture moving into a stalled front, followed closely by a system moving through, will add up to some heavy rainfall totals for parts of the Central U.S.
Council Bluffs, Iowa-based Southwest Iowa Renewable Energy acquired a 70-million-gallon Ord, Nebraska, ethanol plant and is expanding its production capacity to 230 million gallons...
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Traders believed there was a chance that last week's fed cash cattle market could trade steady, if not a tick higher, and that's all the support they needed to boldly push the cont...
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The wet season is starting on time, but mostly due to fronts pressing into central Brazil. El Nino is likely to cause more sparse precipitation this season.
In this equipment roundup, DTN/Progressive Farmer looks at high diesel costs hitting returns; March equipment sales down; reports that Cat buys Monarch technology; Fieldwork Roboti...
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The U.S. has accomplished a lot in 250 years. Perhaps the best way to appreciate those accomplishments is by learning more about what they really are and how they truly came to be.
December corn is down 2 1/4 cents per bushel, November soybeans are down 14 1/4 cents, December KC wheat is up 1/4 cent, December Chicago wheat is up 1 3/4 cents, and MIAX December Minneapolis wheat is steady.
The Cattle on Feed report brought the lowest placements and marketings for the month of September in 30 years, since the series began in 1996. Total beef and pork inventories are lower than September's Cold Storage report.