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13 Jan 2016
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- Congressional approval of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement likely would set off a subsequent round of negotiations as other nations already have shown interest in participating, the United States' chief agriculture trade negotiator told an audience at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln ...
13 Jan 2016
By Russ QuinnDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Average retail fertilizer prices kicked off the new year moving in the same direction they were headed at the end of last year: down. For a second week in a row, fertilizer prices were lower the first week of January 2016, with some prices down significantly, according to fertilizer retailers surveyed...
12 Jan 2016
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor ORLANDO, Fla. (DTN) -- Delegates at the American Farm Bureau Federation's annual convention added language to the group's official policy book supporting efforts to designate cottonseed as an oilseed, which would make it eligible for farm safety-net programs. Farm Bureau's 353-member voting farmer delegation is...
12 Jan 2016
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- As more than 30 states, numerous agricultural and other industry groups launched a multi-faceted legal battle in 2015 to turn back the waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule, the little-discussed reality is the rule could be fully implemented long before a court addresses the law's validity. The cha...
11 Jan 2016
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- In what could be the first of many legal challenges to the latest Renewable Fuel Standard volume requirements, ethanol and agriculture industry groups on Friday petitioned a federal appeals court to hear a challenge to the RFS finalized by EPA in November 2015. The petition was filed by Americans for ...