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6 Dec 2022
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- A California superior court judge has extended a stay on the enforcement of the state's Proposition 12 animal-welfare law until July 2023, pending the outcome of an expected ruling by the Supreme Court in the spring. The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in October in a legal challenge by the American Farm Bureau Federation ...
2 Dec 2022
OMAHA (DTN) -- President Joe Biden on Friday signed legislation meant to prevent railroad workers from going on strike, saying that such a strike "would have been an economic catastrophe at a very bad time in the calendar." The legislation signing and brief comments at the White House ends a week of high-stakes drama in Washington that saw Congress...
2 Dec 2022
OMAHA (DTN) -- People set up fake farms around the country to secure Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans, funneling their loan applications through financial technology firms that collected billions in fees and disregarded red flags for fraudulent loans, a new congressional report cited. Potato farms in Palm Beach, Florida, orange orchards in M...
1 Dec 2022
Editor's note: This story was updated at 11:18 a.m. (CST) ** LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- EPA proposes growing the total volume of biofuels blended with petroleum products by more than 2 billion gallons between 2023 and 2025, according to a multi-year Renewable Fuel Standard volumes proposal released on Thursday. For the first time in the history of the ...
30 Nov 2022
OMAHA (DTN) -- Retail fertilizer prices continue to hover around mostly steady, according to prices tracked by DTN for the third week of November 2022. This week six of the eight major fertilizers are lower while two are higher compared to a month earlier. Of the six fertilizers, they were all just slightly lower compared to last month. DTN designa...