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29 Apr 2022
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- The EPA on Friday granted an emergency waiver to allow E15 sales to continue through the summer months this year, following up on an announcement President Joe Biden made during a visit to an Iowa ethanol plant in recent weeks. The action comes one day after a group of eight Midwest governors made an official request of EPA A...
29 Apr 2022
EAST LANSING, Mich. (DTN) -- Farmers would see higher USDA commodity loan rates and crop-insurance incentives to grow crops such as wheat and soybeans, as well as consider double-crop options, as part of a $500 million proposal in a Ukraine aid package released by the White House on Thursday. President Joe Biden put forward a $33 billion package of...
28 Apr 2022
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Everyone hates the part of the movie where the defenseless young protagonist ventures down into a dark, damp basement, teeming with unknown horrors. So, try not to do that to your own vulnerable young seedlings this spring, plant pathologists suggest. Many opportunistic soil-borne diseases are lurking in crop fields, and the...
28 Apr 2022
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- Governors in eight Midwestern states have asked EPA to take action to make it possible for gasoline retailers to sell E15 year-round permanently. On Thursday, the governors of Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin asked EPA to begin a rulemaking that would place E10 and E15 on e...
28 Apr 2022
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- More than 100 agriculture interest groups say farmers and ranchers could have to report personal and business-related information to the Securities Exchange Commission if a 510-page rule to require publicly traded businesses to report climate efforts is finalized. In a letter sent to the agency on Tuesday, the groups asked th...