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26 Dec 2019
By Katie DehlingerDTN Farm Business Editor CHICAGO (DTN) -- Rural America is ripe for investment, yet barriers to capital markets, including a fear of venture capital, have led to a gap in financial infrastructure that makes it more difficult for private dollars to finance new opportunities. "The normal rules that we're taught in business school an...
26 Dec 2019
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter SAVANNAH, Ga. (DTN) -- Due to possible increased global potash shipments in 2020, new projects being delayed and producers cutting back on output, a bullish scenario could play out with potash prices bottoming out and then moving up moderately. However, a separate bearish scenario could also occur with less-than-expe...
26 Dec 2019
By DTN Staff OMAHA (DTN) -- As Americans prepare to cast their ballots for president next year, DTN reporters and editors conducted our own discussion and "vote" this month to elect which stories we covered this past year to include in our annual Top 10 Ag Stories series. There were many worthy candidates this year: from the ongoing trade war betw...
24 Dec 2019
By Dan MillerProgressive Farmer Senior Editor Russell Schiermeier's thin farming heritage did not groom him for his 3,400-acre "Battle of Bruneau," as he tells it. An engineer by training, Russell produces crops within the panting-dry desert flourishing all around his Bruneau, Idaho, operation. Amidst alkaline soils and hot, gusty winds, his spread...
24 Dec 2019
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter SAVANNAH, Ga. (DTN) -- Global phosphorus (P) fertilizer demand is expected to grow in the coming years, but the market should remain fairly well balanced during that time. Demand increases sparked by increasing usage in various countries, but specifically African countries. Mehdi Meliani, director of Strategy and Cor...