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23 Jan 2025
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- By this time next year CHS Inc. plans to have completed a planned expansion of its grain facility in Warren, Minnesota, the company announced this week, saying in a news release that construction is slated to begin in the summer of 2025. CHS, based in Inner Grove Heights, Minnesota, announced that when the project is complete...
23 Jan 2025
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee advanced the nomination of former Congressman Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., to head the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday, sending it to the full Senate for consideration. Before the vote, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., the ranking member of the committee, expressed dou...
22 Jan 2025
OMAHA (DTN) -- Brooke Rollins, President Donald Trump's nominee for Agriculture secretary, will lay out some key priorities to senators on Thursday. Those include quickly getting economic and disaster aid out to farmers, dealing with current animal disease outbreaks, developing a new farm bill and revitalizing the massive department she is about to...
22 Jan 2025
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- Although a new proposal from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to reduce cellulosic biofuels levels in the Renewable Fuel Standard is on hold pending review by the new administration, biofuels groups spoke in opposition to the proposal in comments submitted this past week. The EPA, under the Biden administration, propo...
22 Jan 2025
OMAHA (DTN) -- Most average retail fertilizer prices were higher than last month during the second week of January 2025, according to sellers surveyed by DTN. Prices for seven of the eight major fertilizers were higher while the price of just one was lower. However, as has been the case in recent months, no fertilizer price moved a significant amou...