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18 May 2021
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- The federal government and farmers and other landowners along the Missouri River basin filed notices of appeal of a ruling handed down from a federal claims court related to repeated flooding in the basin, according to court documents. In early February, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims awarded St. Joseph, Missouri, farmer Ro...
18 May 2021
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- A federal court in Wyoming dismissed a ranchers' 2019 lawsuit challenging a Trump administration proposal to mandate the use of radio frequency identification of animals in interstate commerce nearly two months after USDA dropped the proposal. The U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming dismissed the case last week, a...
18 May 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- Despite helping advance farmers' understanding of soil health, conservation, water quality and carbon sequestration over the past seven years, the National Corn Growers Association is shutting down its flagship sustainability program, the Soil Health Partnership, at the end of the month. The partnership was one of the first moves by ...
17 May 2021
This article was originally posted at 3:03 p.m. CDT on Monday, May 17. It was last updated at 3:55 p.m. CDT on Monday, May 17. ** OMAHA (DTN) -- U.S. soybean planting continued at its fastest pace in over 12 years last week thanks to mostly favorable weather, according to USDA NASS' weekly Crop Progress report on Monday. NASS estimated that 61% of ...
17 May 2021
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- A former cellulosic-ethanol plant in Hugoton, Kansas, will soon be home to a new renewable diesel plant after the facility once lauded as cutting edge in biofuels production changed ownership hands several times. Seaboard Energy announced at the end of April plans to complete construction of a plant by Dec. 31, 2021, on the f...