Friday, November 6, 2026 3:08PM CST Indiana confirmed its first H5N1 case in a dairy herd as avian influenza continues spreading among U.S. cattle and poultry, prompting increased surveillance and biosecurity.
Friday, November 6, 2026 1:10PM CST After weeks of falling grain prices, traders look to USDA's November reports for possible market support, with corn and soybean production, export demand and global wheat trade among the key factors to watch.
Friday, November 6, 2026 10:59AM CST If there were a repeated theme at the American Bankers Association Agricultural Bankers Conference, it's uncertainty about the level of ad hoc government payments to producers and what it looks like for farmers when those payments stop.
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 up 3/4 cent per bushel, January soybeans are up 2 1/4 cents, December KC wheat is down 7 3/4 cents, December Chicago wheat is down 7 1/2 cents, and MIAX December Minneapolis wheat is down 0.0450 cents.
Thursday was a rough day in the stock market with big losses posted for the Dow Jones, NASDAQ and S&P 500. Big stock market losses can pressure commodity futures even if fundamentals are supportive, which is currently not the case for livestock markets.