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3 Jun 2022
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- The director of the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality told federal officials on Thursday that the so-called "significant nexus" test used to determine whether waters are federally jurisdictional needs to be scrapped. In its place, Misael Cabrera told EPA and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officials during a waters of ...
2 Jun 2022
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- Oswego, Kansas, cattle trader John Rife has been banned for life from trading and fined nearly $270,000 for repeated violations of the Packers and Stockyards Act dating back to 2008, according to a default judgment entered by the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas. The lifetime ban comes as a result of breaching p...
2 Jun 2022
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- The majority of class-action lawsuits brought against John Deere over the right to repair farm equipment will be heard by a federal court in Illinois, according to an order issued by the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation on Wednesday. By DTN's count, there are now nine cases consolidated in the U.S. District Cou...
2 Jun 2022
MT. JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- The value of ranch and pastureland kept pace with cropland in 2021 and early 2022, although regional variations were evident, according to economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. The value of ranchland in Nebraska was 25% higher in the first quarter of 2022 compared to the year before, while bankers estimat...
1 Jun 2022
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Corn planting can't outrun the rain forever, as Matthew Krueger knows well. Storms chased the East Grand Forks, Minnesota, farmer out of the field late last week. He still had 300 acres of his 2022 corn crop left to plant. With the week hurtling toward June 1, he made the call. "With all the rain and the forecast, we don't t...