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10 Dec 2018
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (DTN) -- The world phosphorus fertilizer market appears well balanced heading into 2019, but there are signs pointing to possible supply issues, especially if environmental regulations take hold and reduce Chinese production and exports. If this does occur, world P prices could move to levels that ...
7 Dec 2018
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (DTN) -- The global nitrogen market could face a deficit in the next two to three years until more world capacity can come into the market, according to a speaker at the 2018 Fertilizer Outlook and Technology Conference recently in Jacksonville, Florida. Alistair Wallace, a fertilizer analyst for ...
7 Dec 2018
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- As net losses continue to deepen at Neeley Biofuels' hypothetical 50-million-gallon ethanol plant in South Dakota, one industry expert said real-world plants across the country continue to face challenges to survive the downfall. DTN's hypothetical ethanol plant recorded a net loss of 37.9 cents per g...
6 Dec 2018
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Growers should expect lower-than-average germination rates from their soybean seed next year, experts told DTN. Much of the country's soybean crop was plagued by unusually wet weather and a long, delayed harvest, which hurt final soybean quality despite overall high production. "The e...
6 Dec 2018
By Elaine KubDTN Contributing Analyst Stacking up scale tickets, checking bushel totals against acreage maps, filing elevator assembly sheets into folders, signing contracts, depositing checks, and ultimately, seeing the end-of-year balance on an operating loan. These are the things that a grain-farming operation can only do once harvest is complet...