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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...
23 Dec 2019
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Various factors, such as lower energy costs and less demand due to weather issues, came together in 2019 to push world nitrogen prices lower. The outlook for 2020 and beyond is for a balancing supply and demand situation, which would support the global market, according to an analyst. Yao Yao, a market...