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22 Nov 2024
By Chris Clayton, DTN Ag Policy Editor and Jerry Hagstrom, DTN Political Correspondent OMAHA (DTN) -- President-elect Donald Trump on Friday is considering former Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler as his nominee for Agriculture secretary. CNN reported Trump was meeting with Loeffler at his Mar-a-Lago resort to discuss the position. Loeffler has close tie...
22 Nov 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- The president of a failed organic soybean export company has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Iowa for bankruptcy fraud, accused of defrauding Iowa farmers of more than $4 million for their soybeans. David Wilcox was the president of Global Processing Inc., a buyer and exporter of non-GMO and organic soybeans. The company bas...
22 Nov 2024
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- The Iowa Supreme Court on Friday sided with Summit Carbon Solutions in an appeal filed by a Hardin County landowner who has fought the company from gaining access to his property to conduct a survey ahead of the construction of a carbon pipeline. In May 2023, a district court in Hardin County ruled in Summit's favor saying Io...
22 Nov 2024
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- A Bruneau, Idaho, ranch asked a federal court to dismiss a Clean Water Act case filed against it by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, claiming in a motion the agency cannot prove the ranch violated the law. The motion filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho is in response to EPA's filing of an amend...
22 Nov 2024
MINNEAPOLIS (DTN) -- A former agricultural adviser to the Environmental Protection Agency in the Biden administration raised concerns Wednesday about President-elect Donald Trump's plans to roll back climate initiatives, but expressed optimism that the private sector will continue to focus on lowering agriculture's carbon footprint. Rod Snyder, who...