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The governors of Louisiana and Alabama asked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to exempt their states from Renewable Fuel Standard requirements in 2027, saying in a letter to EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin that the blending requirements are hurting industries in their states. Environmental Editor @DTNeeley reports 🔗 dtn.link/xh8nc6rx
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▶️ Unearthing a killer crop. More than a century after World War I ended, Belgian farmers still harvest artillery shells and other relics. The war action was so intense in certain areas that the soil itself is forever changed. Some shells still contain poisonous gas. The Butaye family keeps gloves in every tractor just in case. #AgNews #VeteransDay #ArmisticeDay #Agriculture
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El Nino favors a flood of warm, Pacific-based air across much of the U.S. and Canada, undercutting the warm air with an active southern storm track. Some disruptions to this pattern should be expected through the winter, but timing these and describing the impacts will be the challenge for meteorologists. DTN Ag Meteorologist John Baranick reports 🔗 dtn.link/3i97syrn
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Federal prosecutors charged a California agricultural lender with diverting approximately $58 million from the refinancing of two farm loans and later using forged signatures, fictitious loans and unauthorized Farmer Mac financing dtnpf.com/agriculture/web/ag…
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System bringing in cold air for Eastern US through weekend. WATCH more in the Market Weather Outlook for Nov. 11: bcove.video/3XkgRDS
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Average retail fertilizer prices were mixed during the first week of November 2026, according to sellers surveyed by DTN. Five of the eight major fertilizers were slightly more expensive compared to last month, while the remaining three were slightly less expensive. Read more in #RetailFertilizerTrends by @RussQuinnDTN 🔗 dtn.link/0ykkgcp4
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A new U.S. Department of Agriculture rule brings public grazing regulations into alignment across two agencies and four congressional acts that affect ranchers. The proposed changes mark the first substantive revision since 1977. DTN Ag Policy Editor @jzajkow reports 🔗 dtn.link/ozquak4h
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Unearthing a killer crop. More than a century after World War I ended, Belgian farmers still harvest artillery shells and other relics. The war action was so intense in certain areas that the soil itself is forever changed. Some shells still contain poisonous gas. The Butaye family keeps gloves in every tractor just in case. Read the full story by Senior Editor @JReichPF 🔗 dtn.link/oaac7s6n
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In its first formal hearing during the lame-duck session, the Senate Agriculture Committee heard testimony from three nominees to the Farm Credit Administration board and USDA's nominee for undersecretary of trade and foreign agricultural affairs, Greg Ibach. DTN Ag Policy Editor @jzajkow reports 🔗 dtn.link/f2ume06o
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Corn and soybeans surge on bullish WASDE, oversold conditions. WATCH more in the Closing Market Comment for Nov. 10: bcove.video/4sOiCVD
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Loan fraud. Federal prosecutors charged a California agricultural lender with diverting approximately $58 million from the refinancing of two farm loans and later using forged signatures, fictitious loans and unauthorized Farmer Mac financing in an alleged scheme that caused more than $64 million in losses. Environmental Editor @DTNeeley reports 🔗 dtn.link/5r2yhpi6
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USDA lowered U.S. corn yield to 179.6 bushels per acre but raised the soybean yield to 53.3 bushels per acre. Read more in the USDA reports summary by DTN: dtn.link/jvv9iew4 Stay tuned for more important highlights and commentary from our analysts
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Colder air coming, but won’t last long for most. WATCH more in the Market Weather Outlook for Nov. 10: bcove.video/48bCdpr
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Can soybeans save Taiwan from China? In a shooting war over Taiwan, deliveries of foreign beans would disappear. The U.S. would embargo shipments from our shores and blockade shipments from South America. Read more in An Urban's Rural View: dtn.link/a0ozsllo
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ICYMI: Since 2018, farmers have received $140 billion in ad hoc payments for various reasons — trade disruptions, the pandemic, low commodity prices and now fuel prices being among them. This year alone, there were the $12 billion Farmer Bridge Assistance (FBA) payments, and then the Trump administration announced $8 billion in aid that will come from the Harvest Fuel Relief Program dtn.link/4adpgzxp
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Montgomery said recent rainfall across the U.S. Southern Plains has helped improve winter wheat conditions, with ratings jumping considerably in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas over the past week. Indiana was the only state to report declining winter wheat conditions week over week.
Favorable fieldwork conditions early in the week should help farmers make additional harvest progress before scattered showers and a brief blast of colder temperatures move across the eastern half of the country later in the week. The nation's corn harvest remains behind its five-year average, while soybeans are slightly ahead, according to USDA NASS's weekly Crop Progress report released today. DTN Content Editor @ellareiff reports 🔗 dtn.link/g90ygn1n
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Before Tuesday's WASDE report, National Agricultural Statistics Service officials shared more details about the September weighted corn error that unexpectedly raised U.S. corn yield and production estimates in October's report. DTN Ag Policy Editor @jzajkow reports 🔗 dtn.link/dwk61ltu
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Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins criticized a Government Accountability Office (GAO) review of her department's reorganization plans. The GAO said USDA did not provide any analysis explaining how decisions were reached, but Rollins defended the process. Farm Business Editor @ChrisClaytonDTN reports 🔗 dtn.link/0bgaf6kl
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