Since 2007, North and South Dakota had a large share of prevent-plant claims. The University of Illinois’ Farm Doc Daily says those states accounted for 35 percent of U.S. corn and soybean prevent plant acres […]
Farm state Senators have joined House colleagues in trying to crack down on foreign ownership of U.S. farmland. In June, House appropriators included a ban on Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran owning U.S. farmland […]
Earlier this week, the Environmental Protection Agency submitted a petition to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals requesting a partial rehearing of its glyphosate interim decision. In that ruling, the panel vacated the interim decision’s […]
New York’s attorney general says Tyson Foods is refusing to comply with a subpoena for a civil probe into possible price gouging during COVID-19. Letitia James asked a state judge in Manhattan to make Tyson […]
USDA Rural Development Undersecretary Xochitl Torres Small says the agency will begin accepting applications on September 6 for funding to expand access to high-speed internet in rural America. USDA is making the next round of […]
Oil prices declined to the lowest point in almost six months, caused by weakening gasoline demand and recessionary fears weighing down markets. Bloomberg says West Texas Intermediate fell to $87.78 a barrel, a level last […]
The Energy Information Administration says ethanol output jumped to its highest level in a month while inventories increased slightly. Production of the biofuel rose to an average of 1.043 million barrels a day during the […]
The August congressional recess is a yearly break in the Washington schedules for elected officials to return to their districts. Tom Donnelly, Director of Grassroots Program Development, says the month-long break first began as a […]
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4, 2022 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has processed more than 255,000 applications for the new Emergency Relief Program (ERP). USDA has made approximately $6.1 billion, to date, in payments to commodity […]
We saw slow old crop export sales again for corn this week according to USDA’s Weekly Export Sales report along with another cancellation of old crop soybeans. Decent sales were seen on new crop while […]