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10 May 2024
By Dave Vrbas, DTN Contributor Editor's Note: Throughout May, DTN/Progressive Farmer's special series "Mental Health Hope & Help" is exploring the unique mental health challenges people in rural America face, highlighting efforts to overcome stigma and looking at ways farmers and ranchers can manage their mental wellness. This is the third story in...
9 May 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- Two scientists who played key roles in the creation of the "Doomsday Vault," a global underground seed vault in Norway, have been recognized as the 2024 World Food Prize laureates. Cary Fowler, U.S. special envoy for Global Food Security, and Geoffrey Hawtin, founding director of the Global Crop Diversity Trust, were each named 2024 ...
9 May 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- The trifecta of government agencies that oversees different aspects of biotechnology have laid out a roadmap for clarifying and streamlining regulatory authority for food safety and spelling out federal rules for everything from microbial bio-stimulants to cell-cultured meat products. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Food ...
8 May 2024
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (DTN) -- Winter wheat growers who intend to compete in the 2024 National Wheat Yield Contest have one week remaining to register their entries on a new contest website. As in years past, the National Wheat Foundation (NWF) set May 15 as the deadline for entering the ninth annual contest. Fourteen national winners will be named t...
8 May 2024
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- A new audit of biofuel tax credits called for the IRS to use more of its enforcement tools after $30.3 million in credits were improperly granted in 2022, according to an April 2024 report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration. The IG said in its report it conducted an analysis of a sample of 124 taxpayer...