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8 Apr 2016
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- A Wyoming family has gone from facing more than $20 million in fines for alleged violations of the Clean Water Act when they built a stock pond, to now having to plant trees and install livestock fencing, according to a proposed settlement filed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in the U.S. ...
8 Apr 2016
By Lance WoodburyDTN Farm Business Adviser Almost everyone admits that family business succession is no easy task. Transitioning from a single leader to a team of siblings, or from a seasoned operator to a less experienced family member, or from a parent to a child, presents a multitude of leadership, management and emotional challenges. Now, add t...
7 Apr 2016
By Marcia Zarley TaylorDTN Executive Editor HADDONFIELD, N.J. (DTN) -- A move intended to strengthen the nation's banking system now has some Farm Credit System bond holders fuming. The Farm Credit System's regulator began efforts to modify capital requirements in 2014 so its cooperative lenders would be more transparent and comparable to commerci...
7 Apr 2016
By Pamela SmithCrops Technology Editor DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- Palmer amaranth is a bully. Southern farmers have been known to compare the weed to the boll weevil in terms of cost and destruction. Now it has the dubious distinction of being named the most troublesome weed in the United States. A new Weed Science Society of America (WSSA) survey ran...
7 Apr 2016
By Jerry HagstromDTN Political Correspondent WASHINGTON (DTN) -- Senate Environment and Public Works Chairman Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., and Pat Roberts, R-Kan., have asked the Environmental Protection Agency's inspector general to audit and investigate an EPA grant to the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission that the senators say was "used to support ...