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15 Mar 2024
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- A group of farms and food companies asked a federal court to end Massachusetts' sales ban on pork not raised according to new state standards created as a result of the passage of ballot Question 3. Currently, the state's law bans the sale of pork meat that doesn't meet sow housing requirements no matter where it is produced....
15 Mar 2024
REDFIELD, Iowa (DTN) -- Electronic identification tags recently received support of $15 million of funding in the House appropriations package to assist USDA to provide these tags to cattle producers. Todd Wilkinson, immediate past president of the National Cattlemen's Beef Association, praised government officials for providing this funding to mak...
14 Mar 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- With weather patterns poised to flip back to La Nina and prices headed in a direction few farmers like, 2024 looks to be a tough year. A good game plan goes a long way in difficult years like these. That's what DTN Ag Meteorologist John Baranick and DTN Lead Analyst Todd Hultman will discuss at the next DTN Ag Summit Series event on ...
13 Mar 2024
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- JBS USA Food Company and Tyson Foods reached a combined $127.3 million settlement with a group of current and former employees who alleged in a 2022 lawsuit the companies conspired to suppress wages, according to a motion filed in a federal court. In November 2022, a group of employees filed a class-action lawsuit in the U.S....
13 Mar 2024
MT. JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- A spate of farmland auctions in Iowa resulted in no sales in February. However, another auction settled just $400 per acre shy of a state record. "That's the weird thing about this market," Doug Hensley, president of real estate services at Hertz Farm Management, told DTN. "It's not weak, but people are protecting their l...