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6 Oct 2021
Editor's Note: For the past two weeks, and continuing this week, DTN/Progressive Farmer is posting a special series called Cybersecurity and Ag to examine the threat cyberattackers pose to agriculture and explore what farmers, ranchers and agribusinesses can do to protect themselves against these high-tech criminals. This is the sixth story in the ...
6 Oct 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- Farmers in counties that saw significant yield losses last year for their 2020-21 corn and soybean crops will see payments under the Agricultural Risk Coverage-County program this month. Payments go out in October from the Farm Service Agency for ARC-County and Price Loss Coverage, as well as the 3.8% or so of acres that are enrolled...
5 Oct 2021
For the fiscal year 2021, the Congressional Budget Office projects tax revenue collected from corporations at $238 billion. To put that into perspective, corporations account for just 6% of all tax collections. Because corporate tax is such a low-hanging fruit, the budget reconciliation bill still being debated in Congress makes changes to the curr...
5 Oct 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- While China has moved aggressively to meet its agricultural import goals under former President Donald Trump's phase-one trade agreement, the current U.S. trade ambassador on Monday said the Biden administration will demand China seek more meaningful reforms in a new round of trade talks. U.S. Trade Ambassador Katherine Tai on Monday...
4 Oct 2021
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- Growth Energy asked the Supreme Court to consider whether EPA has the authority to allow year-round E15 sales, in a petition filed with the court on Monday, arguing the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit erred in vacating the E15 rule. E15 fuel is 15% ethanol, 85% gasoline. The E15 rule had prohibited ...