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27 Feb 2020
By Elaine KubDTN Contributing Analyst Imagine you are a freight provider -- a trucker, say -- and the demand for your services is so poor that the market's freight rates have not only dropped to an all-time low, they've actually gone negative. You are effectively paying your customers just to give your freight-hauling equipment something to do. Th...
27 Feb 2020
By Jerry HagstromDTN Political Correspondent PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (DTN) -- Commodity experts at the International Sweetener Colloquium here on Tuesday signaled that the announcements of the spread of the coronavirus and the fall of the stock market are making them uncertain about the future. Following the stock decline and concerns about the corona...
26 Feb 2020
By Mary KennedyDTN Cash Grains Analyst The start of the 2019 navigation season in the Upper Mississippi River (UMR) was late and drawn out. The first tow didn't make it to St. Paul, Minnesota, until April 24, 2019, when Motor Vessel Aaron F. Barrett, pushing 12 barges, finally locked through Lock and Dam 2 near Hastings on that date. The average da...
26 Feb 2020
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter HOUSTON (DTN) -- When ClearFlame Engines CEO B.J. Johnson told ethanol industry representatives about the potential ethanol market for the company's all-ethanol diesel engine, those at the recent National Ethanol Conference in Houston could have kissed him. While concerns continue about the future of the Renewable F...
25 Feb 2020
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Despite reaching plea agreements on felony charges in April 2019 connected to a Chapter 11 bankruptcy, farmers Michael and Melissa Stamp of Decatur, Michigan, may be going to trial after all following an unexpected turn of events in a federal court. The Stamps' legal cases have been tied up in court s...