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23 Jun 2020
It was a rough spring for many farmers in North Dakota after a crippling blizzard affected central and eastern North Dakota and the Red River Valley from Thursday, Oct. 10, to Saturday, Oct. 12, right in the middle of corn harvest. The winter started early and continued to be unkind to that area and northwest Minnesota into April 2020, with the sno...
23 Jun 2020
WASHINGTON (DTN) -- The top priority for Congress in dealing with food and agriculture in the time of COVID-19 should be to increase the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefit levels, former Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said on Friday during a webinar sponsored by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine B...
22 Jun 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- Of the 40 locations DTN contacted that showed offers for domestic distillers dried grains (DDG) for the week ended June 18, posted offers were mixed and averaged $134 per ton, down $2 versus the prior week.Wednesday's Energy Information Administration ethanol report noted that stocks were drawn down for an eighth straight week during...
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...