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14 Sep 2020
WESTON, Mo. (DTN) -- People stick with traditions for a lot of reasons, but usually they like what they are doing, and they remember their parents or grandparents did the same thing.After an unexpected 3/4-inch of rain early on Saturday morning during Labor Day weekend, a couple of farmers just north of Kansas City, Missouri, could have been catchi...
14 Sep 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- The EPA has failed in its legal responsibility to clean up the Chesapeake Bay, two new federal lawsuits filed on Thursday argue.In particular, the lawsuits filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and the states of Maryland, Virginia and Delaware, along with the District of Columb...
11 Sep 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp. may be fined about $13,500 for an alleged safety violation at its meatpacking plant in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, where nearly 1,300 employees contracted COVID-19 and four workers died from the virus this spring.The plant was temporarily closed in April for cleaning at the onset of the outbreak, reopen...
10 Sep 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- Responding to questions from the American Farm Bureau Federation, President Donald Trump's campaign points to the administration's support for farmers and agriculture in regulations, trade and labor, while former Vice President Joe Biden's campaign counters a Biden presidency would repair some of the trade relations that have affecte...
10 Sep 2020
For those who don't have kids in school, or calves to wean, or equipment to grease up before harvest, September could, in theory, be an excellent time for a road trip with beautiful fall foliage and mild weather and thin crowds anywhere you'd want to go.However, in reality, we've experienced the first frost across a broad portion of the United Stat...