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4 Dec 2017
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor NEVADA, Iowa (DTN) -- With a largely friendly crowd of central Iowa farmers and agribusiness types, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt on Friday highlighted his agency's recent work on biofuels and Clean Water Act regulations while pointing to general overall American optimism under Donald Trump's presidency. "I rea...
4 Dec 2017
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- The vaunted Senate tax-cutting bill appeared to be sailing through on Thursday until a small number of GOP senators raised concerns over $1 trillion in added debt over the next decade. The Senate will come back on Friday with a new plan that will scale back the costs of the bill over the next dec...
1 Dec 2017
By Jerry HagstromDTN Political Correspondent WASHINGTON (DTN) -- The opioid crisis has struck farm and ranch families much harder than the rest of rural America, according to a Morning Consult survey commissioned by the American Farm Bureau Federation and the National Farmers Union, the nation's two largest general farm organizations. Leaders for t...
1 Dec 2017
By Pam SmithDTN Progressive Farmer Crops Technology Editor SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (DTN) -- Jared Roskamp delivered a terse message to applicators interested in spraying dicamba herbicides in 2018: "Do not use dicamba if you are unwilling or unable to follow requirements." Roskamp was talking to the 131 attendees of Illinois' first training session on h...
1 Dec 2017
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Despite a major push from the Midwest to bolster Renewable Fuel Standard volumes for biomass-based diesel and cellulosic ethanol, in the end, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency left its final numbers released on Thursday virtually untouched from the original proposal. Though the biodiesel indust...