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4 Oct 2024
Agricultural groups breathed a sigh of relief late Thursday when the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) agreed to return to work at ports along the East Coast and Gulf of Mexico. In a statement on their Facebook page Thursday evening, the ILA said: "International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) and the United States Maritime Alliance, ...
3 Oct 2024
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- A U.S. senator takes to task the head of Deere and Company in a letter on Wednesday, accusing the company of violating the Clean Air Act and restricting farmers from fully repairing their own equipment while raising the costs of those repairs. In a letter to Deere CEO John C. May, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., includes a li...
3 Oct 2024
By Harshawn Ratanpal, KBIA Radio, Columbia, Mo. DREXEL, Mo. -- On a recent fall day, as Wilburn Harris did the rounds on his cattle farm in the Missouri town of Drexel, he was met with brown grass, cracked soil and half-empty ponds. He was used to it. Last year's drought was so bad he had to haul water and hay to his farm to keep the animals fed an...
2 Oct 2024
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- With the 2024 presidential election around the corner, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump recently gave a snapshot of where they stand on the issues that affect agriculture and rural Americans. In particular, the American Farm Bureau Federation posted to its website a list of questions posed to and...
2 Oct 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- With a port strike affecting roughly $1.4 billion in agricultural exports weekly, some groups and farm leaders are calling on President Joe Biden and his administration to step in more aggressively to end the strike that has halted supply chains along the East Coast and Gulf of Mexico ports. The International Longshoremen's Associati...