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25 Apr 2022
The Surface Transportation Board (STB) has scheduled a public hearing on recent rail service problems and recovery efforts involving several Class I carriers. For well over five months now, agriculture, livestock, fertilizer, food and beverage, coal and all shippers who use rail to move their product have complained about the poor rail service they...
25 Apr 2022
United States-Japan relations have had their ups and downs over the decades, but in recent years they've been mostly up. U.S. agriculture has benefited. Japan, America's fourth-largest ag-export market, recently agreed to further ease restrictions on imports of U.S. beef. (https://ustr.gov/…). On one issue, however, the two countries have diverged ...
22 Apr 2022
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- Nebraska Republican Gov. Pete Ricketts on Friday told landowners and politicians from around the country to get educated about the purpose behind the Biden administration's initiative to conserve 30% of U.S. land and water by 2030. Speaking to attendees at the first national "Stop 30x30" summit in Lincoln, Nebraska, Ricketts ...
22 Apr 2022
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Aimee Bissell already knows she's going to lose yield and profit on the soybeans she's picked for planting this year, even though no plants have emerged on her Bedford, Iowa, farm yet. The problem? The soybean varieties she plants each year have already been outsmarted by a tiny, but devastating pest: soybean cyst nematode (...
22 Apr 2022
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- Numerous agriculture groups, members of Congress, businesses, legal foundations and others have filed amicus briefs in support of Idaho property owners Michael and Chantell Sackett in a Supreme Court case likely to determine how federal agencies define waters of the U.S. and when wetlands are jurisdictional. Twenty of those b...