The president and CEO of the Fertilizer Institute says he’s optimistic the USDA’s new input economist can fill the data and transparency gap in fertilizer and input markets. Corey Rosenbusch tells Brownfield “They need to understand how these markets work, what drives prices, what does supply look like, because that’s what’s going to help them […]
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