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17 Jun 2020
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- EPA defended its decision to allow farmers to continue to use three vacated dicamba herbicides -- XtendiMax, FeXapan and Engenia -- and asked the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to throw out a motion filed to hold the federal agency in contempt.That emergency motion was filed last week by a group of farm and environmental org...
16 Jun 2020
WASHINGTON (DTN) -- The seats being vacated by House Agriculture Committee ranking member Michael Conaway, R-Texas, and GOP committee members Ted Yoho of Florida, Roger Marshall of Kansas and Ralph Abraham of Louisiana are ranked "Solid Republican" in the 2020 elections, but the statewide House seat in Montana being vacated by Republican Rep. Greg ...
16 Jun 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- A federal judge Friday ruled North Carolina's so-called "ag-gag" law is unconstitutional, in yet another loss for laws across the country designed to prevent animal-rights groups from conducting undercover investigations of livestock operations.A number of animal-rights groups, including People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, o...
16 Jun 2020
This article was originally posted at 3:11 p.m. CDT on Monday, June 15. It was last updated at 4:11 p.m. CDT on Monday, June 15.**OMAHA (DTN) -- Corn planting in much of the U.S. had wrapped up by the end of last week, while the condition of the portion of the crop that had emerged fell, USDA NASS said in its weekly Crop Progress report on Monday.N...
15 Jun 2020
On Thursday, USDA released its latest supply and demand estimates for June, and as expected, most of the changes were minor tweaks. A 50 million bushel (mb) reduction in ethanol demand for corn and a 25 mb cut in soybean exports showed up, as expected.The slightly bullish surprise of the day was a lower-than-expected 395 mb estimate of U.S. ending ...