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17 Jan 2018
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- Farm organizations are beginning to talk about the evolution of climate-smart agriculture and the need to ensure the U.S. remains at the table as the United Nations begins developing an agricultural framework for climate change. Representatives from more than 30 organizations were scheduled to mee...
17 Jan 2018
By Todd HultmanDTN Analyst As we head into 2018, one of the news stories gaining momentum is the approach of an impending trade war with China. The threat has been long anticipated as President Donald Trump made it clear during his campaign that he would get tough with China on trade policies, at one time vowing to name China a currency manipulator...
16 Jan 2018
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Mike Berdo spent most of his Thursday cleaning cattle pens and putting new bedding down to keep the cattle dry and warm. The Washington, Iowa, cattleman/farmer, who has both a cow/calf herd as well as feedlot cattle, keeps busy in the winter trying to keep his cattle as comfortable as possible during a...
16 Jan 2018
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter WASHINGTON (DTN) -- President Donald Trump's administration and some members of Congress want oil and ethanol interests to just get along and work out their differences on the Renewable Fuel Standard. But the leader of the nation's largest ethanol industry interest group told DTN in an exclusive interview on Thursda...
16 Jan 2018
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor WASHINGTON (DTN) -- An overhaul of agricultural guest-worker programs is a major component of a House plan to fix the immigration status of young people involved in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA) that is entangled in the latest immigration battle on Capitol Hill. Conservatives in the ...