"Cold War" is a misleading historical analogy for the U.S.-China relationship. The two countries are indeed serious rivals, but they're also economically interdependent.
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
Competition with China means the U.S. must rebuild its infrastructure and protect against losing its semiconductor-manufacturing base.
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
Even if you only skim this piece, be sure to read the final paragraph.
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
The financial markets' current concerns about inflation are overdone but the inflation of the 1970s teaches precautionary lessons.
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
Government, environmental groups and farmers are all talking about the need to work together to solve environmental problems.
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
As optimal temperatures move north, Siberia's permafrost will melt, potentially opening up a vast new area to farming. But will anyone want to farm it?
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
The public may be underestimating just how effective the vaccines against COVID-19 will be.
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
If you believe a paper from two prominent economists, the national debt is far from out of control.
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
So much has changed in the last four years, the issues are so different, that the next four can't be a carbon copy of Tom Vilsack's earlier eight.
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
It's easy to pooh-pooh Former Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman's choice for USDA's most important function. But actually, he has a point.
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
Calls for an Infrastructure Week diverted criticism from President Donald Trump but otherwise led nowhere. Washington needs to focus a whole year on doing something about infrastructure.
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
DTN's lead analyst makes a strong argument for USDA not to accept China's ending-stocks numbers.
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
The president-elect has given some clues about his approach to China but many questions remain.
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
It's amazing what these virtual-meeting technologies can do. This year's DTN Ag Summit will be virtually the same as if we were all in the same room.
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
Maybe with an end in sight we'll overcome our pandemic fatigue and take the precautions necessary to get through the winter.
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
Exit polls suggest the urban-rural political divide wasn't as big this election as it was in 2016.
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
Once considered a futuristic fantasy, vertical farming is now taken seriously by big outfits like Driscoll's, the lead player in the berry business.
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
They may both be superpowers, but the U.S. and China don't get much respect these days in surveys of international opinion.
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
This has turned out to be a hard-luck year for the Midwest's major-league baseball teams.
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by Urban C Lehner , Editor Emeritus
No, COVID-19 isn't going away soon, but when it does, many things will have changed.
Markets
- Market Matters Blog by DTN Staff
- Technically Speaking by DTN Staff
- Sort & Cull by DTN Staff
- Fundamentally Speaking by Joel Karlin
- Canada Markets by Cliff Jamieson
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- Production Blog by Pam Smith
- Ethanol Blog by DTN Staff
- Ag Policy Blog by Chris Clayton
- South America Calling by DTN Staff
- An Urban's Rural View by Urban Lehner
- MachineryLink by Dan Miller
- Editors' Notebook by Greg D.Horstmeier