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17 Jan 2020
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- The U.S. Senate on Thursday voted 89-10 for final passage of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), sending the trade agreement to President Donald Trump to sign into law. Much as the House did in December, the Senate provided strong bipartisan support for the trade pact even in the m...
16 Jan 2020
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- An environmental legal group is attempting to force the EPA to put western Lake Erie on a pollution diet after the state of Ohio has yet to take regulatory action in response to repeated algae blooms that have harmed drinking water in places like Toledo. Such a pollution diet, called a total maximum d...
16 Jan 2020
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- An environmental legal group is attempting to force the EPA to put western Lake Erie on a pollution diet after the state of Ohio has yet to take regulatory action in response to repeated algae blooms that have harmed drinking water in places like Toledo. Such a pollution diet, called a total maximum d...
16 Jan 2020
By Elaine KubDTN Contributing Analyst There are many unanswerable questions and unknowable answers in this business, so I feel a special sort of relief when someone asks me a question that actually has a straightforward answer, like this email I received from a reader last spring: "Each and every year, x amount of corn acres are planted. Without e...
16 Jan 2020
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- In one of the biggest political victories of his presidency, President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed a phase-one deal with China that is expected to drive significantly higher agricultural exports to that country. The president held a signing event Wednesday with Chinese Vice Premier Liu He in ...