The estimated production margin for a typical US Midwest dry-mill ethanol plant in the week ending Friday fell 8.98 cents, or 15.04%, to a 28-week low of 50.73 cents/gal, a review of US Department of Agriculture and Platts data showed. ...
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Purdue Extension agronomists have published research updates regarding corn plant populations and nitrogen management guidelines for Indiana growers. Plant populations and nitrogen rates are hot topics in agriculture as input costs ...
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The estimated production margin for a typical US Midwest dry-mill ethanol plant for the week ended Friday dropped 13.58 cents, or 12.47%, to a seven-week low of $0.9535/gallon, a review of US Department of Agriculture and Platts data ...
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Since late last summer, corn prices have fallen dramatically, but distillers grain prices have not. "While corn prices at South Dakota ethanol plants have dropped $1.50 per bushel since August 2, dried distillers grains plus solubles ...
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The chair of the Saskatchewan Pork Development Board says, thanks to lower feed costs, 2014 could be the most profitable year since 2006 for the province's pork producers. As a result of drought that devastated the U.S. corn crop in 2012 ...
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The USDA released its monthly Crop Production and WASDE reports earlier this month and Kansas State University Extension Agricultural Economist Dan O’Brien has been crunching the numbers to see what they portend for grain prices in ...
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The chair of Manitoba Pork Council says 2014 is shaping up to be a much better year for pork producers than 2013. As the result of disappointing grain production in 2012 due to drought pork producers saw grain prices double heading into ...
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Prices for calves, feeder cattle and finished cattle have set some new records this fall and early winter. A combination of circumstances has precipitated these historic prices. There is currently a lot of cautious optimism on the part of ...
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The program uses the direct costs and yields from the 2014 projected crop budgets for nine regions of North Dakota. The program provides a tool for producers to check the changing scenarios until final planting decisions are made this ...
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The USDA released its last Cattle on Feed report of 2013 this past Friday and it showed the number of cattle and calves on feed for slaughter market in the United States for feedlots with capacity of 1,000 or more head totaled 10.7 million ...
Prices for calves, feeder cattle and finished cattle have set some new records this fall and early winter. A combination of circumstances has precipitated these historic prices. There is currently a lot of cautious optimism on the part of ...
Sanderson Farms, a US-based frozen chicken products maker, has posed a net income of $45.3m for the fourth quarter ended 31 October 2013, compared to $9.3m for the same period last year. During the quarter, net sales were $727.1m compared ...
The estimated weekly production margin for a typical US Midwest dry-mill ethanol plant jumped 1.98 cents, or 3.39%, this week to a 15-week high of 60.43 cents/gal, according to a Platts estimate based on a Friday review of data. This was ...
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Russian meat producer Cherkizovo has reported net loss of $0.6m for the first quarter of 2013, compared with net income of $39.8m in Q1 2012 due to high grain prices and low pork prices. The company's sales for the quarter increased by ...
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Asian grain prices are expected to be higher in the next few days as investors take leads from late plantings in the US, one of the world's largest exporters, trade participants said. The most active wheat futures for July delivery on ...
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