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23 May 2022
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- A local judge and rancher in Loving County, Texas, and three other men were arrested on Friday and booked on multiple felony charges of organized crime and livestock theft, in connection with an alleged estray cattle-theft operation as part of a year's-long investigation in southwest Texas. Skeet Lee Jones, 71, is a local ra...
23 May 2022
In the Monday, May 16, USDA weekly Crop Progress report, North Dakota's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) said for the week ended May 15, spring wheat was 17% planted, well behind 81% last year and 60% average. Only 2% of the crop was emerged, well behind 34% last year, and behind the 20% average. Durum wheat was 9% planted, well behi...
20 May 2022
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- Archer Daniels Midland alleges a federal court in Illinois erred when it released sealed company information as part of a May 3 ruling in an ethanol markets lawsuit. The U.S. District Court for the District of Central Illinois granted the plaintiffs, AOT Holding AG, access to documents and other communications related to the ...
20 May 2022
ANKENY, Iowa (DTN) -- A proposal to build a new soybean processing facility in Casselton, North Dakota, prompted a recent not-in-my-back-yard response from the local ethanol plant. Potential competition between soybean and corn acres and future revenue concerns led Tharaldson Ethanol, the nation's seventh-largest ethanol plant, to oppose the constr...
20 May 2022
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- The criminal sentencing of former Washington rancher Cody Easterday could be moved to September, after his attorneys this week filed a motion to delay the sentencing pending the completion of a related bankruptcy case involving Easterday Farms and Easterday Ranches. On May 11, DTN reported in error that Easterday's criminal s...