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11 Dec 2019
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Two agriculture groups last week filed a legal challenge to a California law that requires hog producers to abide by certain regulations in order to sell pork in California. The National Pork Producers Council and the American Farm Bureau Federation asked a federal court to decide whether the state ca...
10 Dec 2019
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor CHICAGO (DTN) -- Farmers looking for some demand drivers to move prices can find a small silver lining that growth in global grains demand has outstripped supply the past couple of years, while the economies in Southeast Asia continue to grow and a possible trade deal with China could spark more demand for ethan...
10 Dec 2019
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor GRINNELL, Iowa (DTN) -- Six Democratic presidential candidates laid out variations of their farm policy on Friday to members of the Iowa Farmers Union. Each looked in different ways to push policy more to the left by breaking up major agribusinesses and shifting the direction of farm subsidies. With 18 candidat...
10 Dec 2019
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ARLINGTON, Va. (DTN) -- Three consecutive years of off-target dicamba injury is taking its toll on the agricultural industry. Leo Reed even has a name for it: dicamba fatigue. "States recognize that both we and the [EPA], we're all suffering from dicamba fatigue -- staffing shortages and issues and processing ...
9 Dec 2019
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- The ugly trifecta of 2019 -- late planting, high-moisture corn and plentiful rain and snow -- has left many farmers facing unharvested cornfields into December and possibly beyond. Of all the agronomic sins this year has forced onto the landscape, cornfields left standing deep into the w...