Headline News
RECENT NEWS
15 Jun 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds this week signed into law what appears to be the third version of a so-called "ag-gag" law as the state continues to fight in court for its second version of the law.The Iowa General Assembly passed a bill earlier this month that was signed by the governor on June 10, aimed at stopping undercover animal rights ...
15 Jun 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- Agriculture, petroleum and other interests will be allowed to intervene in a lawsuit challenging the new Navigable Waters Protection Rule, a federal court ruled on Thursday.The U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina granted the motion to intervene, filed by the American Farm Bureau Federation, American Petroleum Insti...
15 Jun 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- Spending a day at your state fair looking through the pens of livestock and eating your favorite fair food doesn't appear to be in the cards this summer for many. Several states across the country have cancelled their traditional state fairs due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The same applies to large farm shows and expos. As the dates o...
12 Jun 2020
ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- The agricultural industry was rocked by a federal appeals court ruling that vacated the registrations of three dicamba herbicides last week.Growers would do well to keep their eye on a second major herbicide lawsuit in the months to come.The plaintiffs who brought the dicamba lawsuit to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Nint...
12 Jun 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- Rattan Lal, a soil scientist at Ohio State University, was named the 2020 World Food Prize laureate on Thursday with the prize citing Lal "for developing and mainstreaming a soil-centric approach to increasing food production that conserves natural resources and mitigates climate change."Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Secretary o...