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22 Jun 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- Two agriculture groups appealed to a federal appeals court this week, after a district court in California dismissed their legal challenge to the state's Proposition 12, which involves production standards for pork.The National Pork Producers Council and the American Farm Bureau Federation had their case dismissed in the U.S. Distric...
22 Jun 2020
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- A panel of Ninth Circuit Court judges denied an emergency motion to halt dicamba use and hold EPA in contempt Friday.The decision is an important win for the EPA, which obeyed the Ninth Circuit's June 3 order to vacate three dicamba registrations but allowed farmers and commercial applicators to continue applying "existing s...
19 Jun 2020
About 3,500 years ago, as listed in the book of Exodus, the following 10 plagues hit Egypt: 1) water turning to blood, 2) frogs, 3) lice, 4) flies, 5) livestock pestilence, 6) boils, 7) hail, 8) locusts, 9) three days of darkness, and 10) the death of every firstborn son in Egypt.From 2019 and into 2020, American agricultural producers may feel our...
19 Jun 2020
STORM LAKE, Iowa (DTN) -- The coronavirus is still spreading in parts of rural America and more cases are showing up as testing increases.Communities with spikes in COVID-19 cases say they are left working out responses themselves as stay-at-home orders are cancelled and business restrictions are largely going away as well. It's mostly up to busine...
19 Jun 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- The EPA posted 52 new small-refinery exemptions requests from previous years on the agency's Renewable Fuel Standard dashboard on Thursday, drawing outrage from biofuels groups that have been calling on the agency to renew its transparency pledge.The agency now lists six pending requests each for 2011 and 2012, 10 each for 2013 and 2...