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10 Mar 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- A federal lawsuit challenging EPA's approval of atrazine and two related herbicides, propazine and simazine, has been stayed as part of the Biden administration's review of Trump administration actions. That lawsuit was filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco in November 2020, by the Rural Coalition,...
9 Mar 2021
By DTN Staff This article was originally posted at 11:01 a.m. CST. It was updated at 12:09 p.m. ** OMAHA (DTN) -- USDA on Tuesday released its March Crop Production and World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) reports. USDA held pat on demand and domestic ending stocks for corn, soybeans and wheat in the March World Agricultural Suppl...
9 Mar 2021
The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) unveiled their 2021 Report Card for America's Infrastructure on Wednesday, March 3. The nation earned a C-, up from 2017's cumulative GPA of D+. This is the first time since ASCE began issuing the report card that the nation's infrastructure has received a GPA outside of the D range. Between 2017 and 2...
9 Mar 2021
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- EPA has moved to block state attempts to extend the dicamba cutoffs listed on the federal labels of XtendiMax, Engenia and Tavium in 2021. The news came to light at a meeting of pesticide regulators taking place virtually this week, the annual conference of the Association of American Pesticide Control Officials (AAPCO). EPA...
5 Mar 2021
WASHINGTON (DTN) -- Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., and Senate Agriculture ranking member John Boozman, R-Ark., frequently emphasize their joint commitment to bipartisanship. However, they are taking opposing viewpoints on President Joe Biden's American Rescue Plan, which is moving through Congress under budget rec...