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1 Sep 2022
OMAHA (DTN) -- Walmart's move into the beef meatpacking business announced on Wednesday marks a new shift of vertical integration for the country's largest big-box store and the cattle industry. Walmart signed an agreement for a minority stake and board representation in Sustainable Beef LLC, a $325 million planned beef packing plant that will proc...
1 Sep 2022
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- EPA has 29 days to decide whether to grant or deny a petition calling for the regulation of pesticide-treated seeds, after a federal court on Wednesday approved a consent decree between the agency and the Center for Food Safety and the Pesticide Action Network North America. Pesticide-treated seed is used widely across the co...
1 Sep 2022
BOONE, Iowa, (DTN) -- The ranking member of the House Agriculture Committee committed to getting a farm bill done in 2023 if he takes over as chairman of the committee, and he criticized a GOP budget plan that calls for cutting farm programs. Rep. Glenn "GT" Thompson, R-Pa., ranking member of the House Agriculture Committee, was among a group of Re...
1 Sep 2022
BOONE, Iowa, (DTN) -- The ranking member of the House Agriculture Committee committed to getting a farm bill done in 2023 if he takes over as chairman of the committee, and he criticized a GOP budget plan that calls for cutting farm programs. Rep. Glenn "GT" Thompson, R-Pa., ranking member of the House Agriculture Committee, was among a group of Re...
31 Aug 2022
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- Both sides in an ongoing dicamba federal lawsuit filed by environmental groups in Arizona continue to wrangle over whether the court should lift a stay in the case. The EPA this week asked the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona to keep the stay in place, in response to the Center for Biological Diversity's reques...