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1 May 2023
OMAHA (DTN) -- The Food and Drug Administration has made its first approval for gene-edited livestock to be processed for human consumption with a handful of hogs from Washington State University. But the researcher who led the project said regulatory oversight needs to change for the livestock or food industry to commercialize a food product from ...
1 May 2023
MANHATTAN, Kan. (DTN) -- Visiting with agricultural producers and touring research sites in Kansas on April 28, Sen. John Boozman, ranking member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, agreed that it's going to be complicated for Congress to pass a $1.5 trillion farm bill when Republican colleagues in the House just passed a debt bill meant to cut sp...
28 Apr 2023
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- For the first time in 34 years, Iowa farmers will begin paying a portion of their grain sales to the state's indemnity fund beginning on July 1. The board that oversees the fund voted on Thursday to reinstate the fees following recent drawdowns from a number of grain warehouse failures. The grain indemnity fund balance has di...
27 Apr 2023
MT. JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- Interest rates may be rising, but that didn't slow the sale of the 15,568-acre Dumbbell Ranch in the Nebraska Sandhills. Located in Hyannis, Nebraska, the ranch sits on one of the deepest parts of the Ogallala Aquifer, produces about 1,800 tons of hay from subirrigated meadows and operates a 900-head cow-calf herd. The Ne...
26 Apr 2023
MT. JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- Interest rates may be rising, but that didn't slow the sale of the 15,568-acre Dumbbell Ranch in the Nebraska Sandhills. Located in Hyannis, Nebraska, the ranch sits on one of the deepest parts of the Ogalla Aquifer, produces about 1,800 tons of hay from subirrigated meadows and operates a 900-head cow-calf herd. The Nebr...