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23 May 2022
OMAHA (DTN) -- Citing that a U.S. Solicitor General's position undermines decades of science-based policy, 54 agricultural groups want President Joe Biden to withdraw a recent brief to the Supreme Court over Bayer AG's petition for the court to review a verdict in a Roundup cancer lawsuit. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar had filed a brief earl...
23 May 2022
This article was originally posted at 3:03 p.m. CDT on Monday, May 23. It was last updated at 4:02 p.m. CDT on Monday, May 23. ** OMAHA (DTN) -- U.S. farmers logged another productive week last week, pushing corn planting to near the three-fourths completion mark and soybean planting to the halfway point, USDA NASS said in its weekly Crop Progress ...
23 May 2022
OMAHA (DTN) -- The word "agriculture" doesn't come up in the multiple White House statements about the value or benefits of the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity, kicked off Monday by President Joe Biden in Japan. The rollout of the new trade talks between the U.S. and 12 other countries "covers half the population of the world and mor...
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...