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31 May 2023
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- Former eastern Washington rancher Cody Allen Easterday will be permanently banned from commodity trading and pay a $1 million fine to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission as part of a consent agreement filed in federal court. Easterday is serving an 11-year prison sentence in California for pleading guilty to one count of...
30 May 2023
Chris Clayton, DTN Ag Policy Editor and Jerry Hagstrom, DTN Political Correspondent OMAHA (DTN) -- Farm programs would come out of the debt-ceiling debate largely unscathed as lawmakers gnash their teeth over a compromise spending and debt-limit bill that needs to clear both chambers by June 5. The bill, the Fiscal Responsibility Act, released over...
30 May 2023
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- A second Minnesota man involved in an alleged organic crops conspiracy has pleaded guilty to making a false statement and could spend up to 14 months in jail, according to a plea agreement filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota. In addition, Adam Clifford Olson, owner and operator of Olson Seed LLC in ...
29 May 2023
While the Bipartisan Rail Safety Act has yet to be made into law, some states are enacting their own safety laws, one of them being the two-person crew requirement that unions fought for, but did not get, in the recent 2023 negotiations. On May 24, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz signed a two-person crew bill into law. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Eng...
26 May 2023
By Jerry Hagstrom, DTN Political Correspondent, and Chris Clayton, DTN Ag Policy Editor WASHINGTON (DTN) -- Like so many other political rifts in the U.S., the reaction to the U.S. Supreme Court decision on the Clean Water Act Thursday reflects another divide, though agricultural groups were elated in the ruling that curbs EPA's power to regulate ...