Field Posts

From market moves to New World screwworm, stormy weather to high diesel prices, there is a firehose of news for cattlemen to stay up on as we barrel towards the end of 2026. So today, DTN’s Senior Livestock Editor Jennifer Carrico is taking over part of the show, bringing us conversations with two leading cattle handling experts to teach us about proven practices that advance animal health, welfare, and beef quality. We’ll hear from Curt Pate and Lindsay Waechter-Mead to tackle those topics, ...

If you talk to top farm business managers in North America today, most will have heard of or attended TEPAP, Texas A&M’s premier Executive Program for Ag Producers. While this program has been around for more than 50 years, demand from participants has increased in recent years as everything from finances and insurance to technology and cyber security have gotten more complex and demanding for farmers and ranchers. That’s why today, DTN’s Farm Business Editor Chris Clayton is ...

Polling places in many states are already open. Voters have just days left to cast their ballots, which will decide the makeup of the U.S. House and Senate as well as key state-level offices from governorships to commissioners of agriculture. Key races in this year’s midterms will also decide the makeup of both the Senate and House Agriculture Committees who are still working on passing a farm bill that’s now three years overdue. And at this point in the season, many races in key ...

The latest WASDE dropped Friday, October 9th, stunning farmers and analysts alike with an unexpected boost to U.S. corn stocks that sent the market on a bearish spiral. To help us understand what all went down, we’re joined once again by DTN Lead Markets Analyst Rhett Montgomery, who takes us beat by beat through the latest updates from both the WASDE and the September 30th Grain Stocks report. We’ll hear where USDA found enough extra corn bushels to cause a meltdown, and what that means not ...

Soybean Cyst Nematode, or SCN, is a billion dollar problem for U.S. soybean farmers, and that’s not an exaggeration. Estimates suggest that farmers lose between $1 and $1.5 billion a year to this pest, due both growing, and the way that SCN tends to make other problems, from diseases and pests to stress, worse. More and more farmers are facing down the cost of SCN today, and the need for a new management strategy is mounting. Today, we’re joined by BASF Trait Technology Lead Michael Ma...