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27 May 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- China is increasing its purchases of key U.S. agricultural commodities even as political rhetoric between the two countries ramps up, but China isn't projected right now to come close to hitting its targets for ag buys under the phase-one trade deal. Blaming China for the coronavirus pandemic to criticizing China's new law cracking d...
27 May 2020
DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- The word "distancing" is fraught with meaning this spring, but space between fields offers a way to manage some weather risk for farmers such as Ryan Jenkins and Reid Thompson.There's about 20 miles as the crow flies between the Jenkins Farms base in Jay, Florida, and their farthest-most field location across the Alabama stat...
27 May 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- Idaho property owners Mike and Chantell Sackett will have a chance to have a court hear the merits of their Clean Water Act legal case, after a federal appeals court rejected an EPA motion to dismiss their appeal.The EPA filed a motion on April 1 in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco to dismiss the case ...
27 May 2020
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy EditorandJerry HagstromDTN Political CorrespondentGLENWOOD, Iowa (DTN) -- USDA is set to begin accepting applications Tuesday from crop growers and livestock producers for $16 billion in aid under the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP).Cattle producers who typically do not receive direct federal aid have had mo...
26 May 2020
This week's big news was USDA's explanation of how it would distribute funds to farmers through its Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP). I won't rehash it here, but the short story is that applications will be available at the Farm Service Agency on May 26. Producers should quickly participate to help cover some of the losses on 2019 product...