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6 Dec 2024
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- While agriculture and biofuels groups are trying to get a handle on where Lee Zeldin stands on biofuels, Sen. Pete Ricketts, R-Neb., said on Wednesday the former New York congressman told him he changed his anti-biofuels views from his time in the U.S. House of Representatives. Ricketts said during a press briefing that he ca...
6 Dec 2024
GENERAL COMMENTS: USDA does not adjust U.S. production figures in the December report, instead taking the opportunity to focus on the demand side of the balance sheet, which went largely ignored in the November report, much to the frustration of traders. The December WASDE report also offers slightly more confidence in the accuracy of USDA's estim...
5 Dec 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- The ranking member of the House Agriculture Committee on Thursday called out the conservative House Freedom Caucus for opposing disaster aid in the final days of Congress. The House Freedom Caucus, a bloc of roughly 40 GOP members, released a statement late Wednesday opposing an unpaid disaster supplemental bill saying it would fund ...
5 Dec 2024
By Cami Koons, Iowa Capital Dispatch A new report from the Union of Concerned Scientists found wetlands in the Upper Midwest region are "in peril" due to recent legal challenges and a lack of state-level regulation. The report looks to a new farm bill as a vessel to protect wetlands. The report, authored by Stacy Woods, the research director for th...
5 Dec 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- A federal court in Texas has blocked rules for the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), including the provisions that required farmers, ranchers and other businesses to provide their ownership information to the U.S. Treasury Department. An injunction issued Tuesday in the U.S District Court of Eastern Texas granted a nationwide prelimi...