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10 Jan 2019
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- A federal judge in Iowa has thrown out a state law Iowa lawmakers created to try to block undercover activist investigations into the state's livestock operations. The 2012 law, coming after at least a couple of widely publicized investigations into hog operations, made it illegal to come on a li...
9 Jan 2019
By Karen McMahonProgressive Farmer Contributing Editor RAMONA, S.D. (DTN) -- Leroy Erickson got his new farm shop just in time for his 70th birthday. For decades, the Ramona, South Dakota, farmer used an old barn with no heat and a dirt floor to store tools and repair machinery. He always wanted a new shop but could never pull the trigger on it. Fi...
9 Jan 2019
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- As the EPA starts down the path of rewriting the waters of the United States, or WOTUS, rule, the federal government may be laying the legal groundwork to defend the rule when it comes to the role groundwater plays in the Clean Water Act. Though the newly proposed WOTUS rule would exempt groundwater d...
9 Jan 2019
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- Farmers who had waited to enroll in the Market Facilitation Program will get a deadline extension once USDA Farm Service Agency offices are allowed to reopen. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue announced Tuesday it will extend the Jan. 15 enrollment deadline for the trade-aid payments and add a c...
8 Jan 2019
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (DTN) -- Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren stormed through the reddest part of Iowa over the weekend but discovered standing-room-only crowds on her three days of campaigning -- helped by abnormally mild January weather -- as she made a splash in visiting the first state of the 2020 Democr...