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1 Feb 2021
WASHINGTON (DTN) -- Incoming Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow said Thursday that the confirmation hearing for Tom Vilsack, President Biden's nominee for Agriculture secretary, scheduled for Tuesday, may depend on Senate leaders reaching agreement on a resolution for organizing the Senate. In a call to reporters on her agenda ...
1 Feb 2021
WASHINGTON (DTN) -- Incoming Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow said Thursday that the confirmation hearing for Tom Vilsack, President Biden's nominee for Agriculture secretary, scheduled for Tuesday, may depend on Senate leaders reaching agreement on a resolution for organizing the Senate. In a call to reporters on her agenda ...
1 Feb 2021
Some farmers would call 2020 a disaster. COVID, weather, election: What else could go wrong? Since we are discussing things that have gone wrong, let's talk about involuntary conversions. Let's start the discussion with Treasury Regulation 1.165-6(c), which states that the loss of a prospective crop through frost, storm, flood or fire does not give...
29 Jan 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- Following pressure from farm groups and farmers themselves, the State Department late Thursday issued a statement declaring that H-2A workers from South Africa may qualify for "national interest exemptions" that would allow them to work in the country. The State Department bulletin stated H-2A and H-2B program "essential to the econo...
29 Jan 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- The Dakota Access pipeline will remain operational, though a federal court this week ruled the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers violated the law by conducting work without an easement. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled, however, the pipeline could continue operating while the Corps of Engineers complete...