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14 Apr 2021
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- All sides in a legal challenge to California's Proposition 12 laid out their cases during oral arguments in a federal court on Wednesday. Agriculture groups have argued the state's law placing animal-welfare restrictions on hog producers who sell pork in the state violates the Commerce Clause by regulating hog producers in ot...
14 Apr 2021
WASHINGTON (DTN) -- In a three-hour, wide-ranging hearing, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told the House Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee on Wednesday that USDA will end the Farmers to Families Food Box Program established by the Trump administration. However, USDA will continue to distribute the produce and dairy products that becam...
14 Apr 2021
Becky MillsProgressive Farmer Editor Editor's Note: This article originally appeared in the April 2021 issue of Progressive Farmer magazine. For more content from the latest issue of the magazine, visit https://www.dtnpf.com/…. ** If you're in an accident in a rural area, pray someone like John Bentley takes the call. "I've grown up here. I know w...
13 Apr 2021
By Logan Garcia, Market Reporter - Fertecon, Agribusiness Intelligence, IHS Markit The following is a breakdown of wholesale prices and trends of the various fertilizers in March and first two weeks of April 2021. AMMONIA Domestic: Fertilizer application in the Southern U.S. was delayed overall as winter weather and frequent rains kept fields wet a...
13 Apr 2021
MEAD, Neb. (DTN) -- The owners of a small ethanol plant in Mead, Nebraska, that has become an environmental disaster are looking to sell off their adjoining 30,000-head cattle feedyard as the ethanol plant faces state litigation and angry residents. AltEn LLC, a 24-million-gallon ethanol plant, remains idle and is facing a lawsuit from the state of...