Feed & Grain

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Drought Monitor shows exceptional drought covering half of Arkansas

Mid-South dryness deepened and drought spread across Illinois and Indiana, even as heavy rain shrank national drought coverage for a second straight week.

STB spells out when federal rail law overrides local rules

USDA lifts corn cost forecast as fertilizer bills climb

Lithuania to lab-test every Russian, Belarusian grain shipment

USW pitches US wheat blends to Brazilian millers at Abitrigo

USDA report shows corn harvest slipping further behind average

Canada's top court puts SGS grain inspectors under federal labor law

Utah halts sales of alfalfa cubes after horse deaths

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Beyond bigger and faster: Optimizing the modern feed mill

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New study identifies the 14 genes that control corn protein content

Grain Trade & Export

USDA finds higher freight lifted grain costs to Mexico in third quarter

Low water on the Mississippi, ocean rates and diesel pushed water-route transportation costs up 18% to 24% from the second quarter.

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Thermal Performance and Gearbox Selection for Grain Handling Applications

SEW-EURODRIVE, Inc.

SEW-EURODRIVE’s Austin Burdette discusses heat challenges in grain handling gearboxes and how proper thermal management can reduce downtime and extend equipment life.

Thermal Performance and Gearbox Selection for Grain Handling Applications

Illinois losses trim US corn crop as harvest lags

State yield cuts in the eastern Corn Belt and a 37% drop in sorghum change where feed grain supplies will come from, while a quarter of the corn crop was still in the field.

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USDA trims corn crop, raises soybean exports in November WASDE

A lower corn yield cuts feed use and exports, while bigger soybean exports pull stocks down to 300 million bushels and wheat stocks rise slightly.

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Mergers & Acquisitions

Bunge, GDM form Enerseed to breed new oilseeds for biofuels

The joint venture pairs GDM's breeding and gene-editing work with Bunge's processing and market reach to bring non-traditional oilseeds into the renewable fuels supply chain.

STB orders Union Pacific to make CEO's video to stakeholders public

The board rejected Union Pacific's appeal, demanded retaliation records and will accept comments from any shipper by the Nov. 18 deadline in the Norfolk Southern merger case.

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Feed Milling Equipment

Beyond bigger and faster: Optimizing the modern feed mill

Automation, real-time data and smarter controls help feed mills get more throughput, consistency and uptime from mixing, batching and grinding systems.

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Feed & Grain October/November 2026

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Grain Trade & Export

Canada, China extend canola meal and pea tariff relief through 2028

The two-year extension keeps China's suspension of anti-discrimination tariffs on Canadian canola meal and peas in place past its original end-of-2026 expiration.

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Georgia Ports celebrates opening of $134M Gainesville Inland Port

The Norfolk Southern-served rail terminal gives Northeast Georgia shippers, including farm, poultry and forest product exporters, a direct rail link to the Port of Savannah.

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Donau Soja sees EU soybean crop falling 20% after drought

Smaller European and Ukrainian harvests are tightening non-GM soybean supply and pushing prices for processors and feed manufacturers to their highest levels in three years.

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US soybean shipments hit marketing-year high as China buys

Weekly soybean exports topped 2.5 million metric tons, while wheat shipments fell to their lowest point of the 2026-27 marketing year.

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Mergers & Acquisitions

The Andersons to buy Harvestone in $915M ethanol deal

The purchase adds three corn ethanol plants and operating carbon capture, lifting The Andersons' ethanol capacity to about 730 million gallons a year.

Canada fast-tracks Vancouver container terminal to 2035

Roberts Bank Terminal 2 is part of a Port of Vancouver strategy that also targets rail capacity and bulk export terminals handling grain and potash.

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