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12 Mar 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- The pork supply chain in the United States would face "significant disruption" in 2022 when California's Proposition 12 takes effect, a new report from Rabobank said. As of Jan. 1, 2022, Proposition 12 will prohibit the sale of pork not produced according to California's production standards. Proposition 12 applies to any uncooked po...
12 Mar 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- The U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) on Thursday determined that phosphate fertilizer imports from Morocco and Russia have affected the U.S. market, and a countervailing duty should be placed on imports from these countries. The ruling comes a month after the U.S Department of Commerce recommended the countervailing tariff...
10 Mar 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- Michael Regan is the new administrator of the EPA after the full U.S. Senate confirmed his nomination in a 66-34 vote on Wednesday. Regan, the former secretary of the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality, faces big questions about the future of regulation in agriculture as he takes the helm of the agency. The Biden admi...
10 Mar 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- With the final passage of the American Rescue Plan, Black farmers such as Eddie Slaughter from Buena Vista, Georgia, say they will finally see some relief from long-term debts hanging over them with Farm Service Agency loans. "If they hadn't passed this legislation, the only way a lot of farmers would get out from under all of this d...
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,...