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7 Jan 2020
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- While EPA received 16 new applications for small-refinery exemptions to the Renewable Fuel Standard, a Colorado refining company is challenging the agency in court for rejecting its 2018 request for a waiver. Suncor Energy U.S.A. Inc. filed an appeal of EPA's October 2019 decision in the U.S. Court of...
7 Jan 2020
By Mary KennedyDTN Cash Grains Analyst As the calendar turned to 2020, corn harvest in the U.S. was not 100% complete. In the last weekly Crop Progress report for 2019, USDA reported that as of Dec. 8, 92% of the U.S. corn crop had been harvested. That was hardly obvious in North Dakota where only 43% of the crop had been harvested as of that date,...
6 Jan 2020
By Mary KennedyDTN Cash Grains Analyst OMAHA (DTN) -- The domestic distillers dried grains (DDG) weekly average spot price from the 40 locations DTN contacted was unchanged at $150 per ton for the week ended Jan. 2. Prices have been steady during the holiday break as cash corn prices have been mostly unchanged overall. Based on the average of price...
6 Jan 2020
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Should the EPA consider petitions to change the point of obligation in the Renewable Fuel Standard? It's a question brought before the agency numerous times via petitions but never fully addressed in rulemaking. Valero Energy Corp. and the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers petitioned the U...
6 Jan 2020
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor WASHINGTON (DTN) -- As Roger Johnson prepares for his final few months as president of the National Farmers Union, he sees family farmers facing a lot of big-picture challenges ahead as they move into 2020 and beyond. The North Dakota farmer and former state agriculture commissioner has led NFU since 2009, but a...