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11 Dec 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- The global potash (K) market saw limited supply capacity additions in 2020, but new capacity in 2021 could push the market into an unbalanced situation. How the market faces this and several other challenges in the short term will determine the nutrient's outlook, according to a fertilizer analyst. Presentations were made on the shor...
10 Dec 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to deny an appeal made by refining companies to review an appeals court decision on the EPA's small-refinery exemptions program. In a brief filed with the Supreme Court on Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Justice said the refiners Holly Frontier and CVR Energy have not proven a conf...
10 Dec 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- Kip Tom, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture (FAO), told farmers Wednesday they need to understand the growing debate between the U.S. and Europe over food systems. Tom, a farmer from Indiana, was confirmed in 2019 to be the U.S. ambassador to the FAO in Rome, Italy. In that role, Tom oversees ...
10 Dec 2020
DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- The farm profitability pie can only be carved into so many slices. Reid and Heather Thompson were very aware of the need to make sure they contributed to the servings when they decided to join the family farming operation near Colfax, Illinois, in 2019. Leaving the security of a full-time job with benefits, vacation and a ste...
9 Dec 2020
DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- Real life is a complicated but satisfying recipe for Meredith Bernard. Farming, being a farm wife and mother, and homeschooling two children would fill a normal plate, but she adds a big side helping of blogging and telling agriculture's story to the mix. It wasn't a life she imagined for herself, but she relishes it with a h...