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16 Dec 2023
In much of the country, it's a little hard to think that it's mid-December. I'm in the center of the Midwest, and during a quick Christmas-buying run I saw fellow shoppers in shorts, slogan T-shirts, I think I even heard a pair of flip-flops against the hard tile floor of the local mall. But mild weather aside, 'tis the season. And that means it's ...
15 Dec 2023
OMAHA (DTN) -- The Securities and Exchange Commission has frozen the assets of a Texas-based cattle marketing company, alleging the company fraudulently sold securities in "cattle contracts" as a $191 million Ponzi scheme that would "soon implode." The company, Agridime LLC out of Fort Worth, Texas, is now under a court-ordered receivership under ...
15 Dec 2023
Des KellerProgressive Farmer Editor This story is the fifth and last of five profiles of the people selected as the DTN/Progressive Farmer's 2024 America's Best Young Farmers and Ranchers program. Today, we introduce Rachel Arneson, Arneson Farms, of Halstad, Minnesota. ** Temperatures have nudged past 80 degrees Fahrenheit on an early October afte...
14 Dec 2023
OMAHA (DTN) -- The Securities and Exchange Commission has frozen the assets of a Texas-based cattle marketing company, alleging the company fraudulently sold securities in &t;cattle contracts" as a $191 million Ponzi scheme that would "soon implode." The company, Agridime LLC out of Fort Worth, Texas, is now under a court-ordered receivership unde...
14 Dec 2023
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- The states of Iowa and Nebraska asked a federal court on Wednesday to require EPA to "promptly" finalize a rule to allow permanent, year-round E15 sales in eight states, rejecting the agency's proposed plan to finalize the rule by March 28, 2024. On April 28, 2022, governors in eight states requested a change allowed by the C...