The Van Trump Report

Month: June 2026

What You Need to Know… New Land Rush Driven By Billion-Dollar Data Centers. You Won’t Believe the Size and Scale of Some of These Projects

Across the United States, the new generation of hyperscale data centers is starting to rival airports, factories, and even small towns in sheer physical footprint. These campuses stretch for miles, pack in millions of square feet of server space, carry price tags in the tens of billions of dollars…and they’re turning farmland and industrial acreage …

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Why Product-Market Fit (PMF) is so Critical for Ag Startups… Don’t Invest Unless They Have It!

I received a lot of positive comments on my recent article about my failures investing in various Ag Startups, and many people asked for more insight into what I would do differently. I’ve thought about that, and rather than going into a ton of boring detail, I thought I would simply provide one big important …

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FARM Initiative Puts New Financial Muscle Behind US Ag Exports

USDA and the Export-Import Bank recently launched a new partnership to boost the country’s ag exports by making it easier and less risky for American sellers and their lenders to do business with foreign buyers. The partnership is built around a program called the “Financial Assurance to Revitalize Markets,” or “FARM Initiative,” which acts as …

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