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22 May 2024
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 eighth story in the series. ** Preventing sui...
21 May 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- Government spending on farm commodities would increase an estimated 77% over 10 years under the House-proposed farm bill. But the bill also would "magnify existing disparities" in payments per acre. Under the House Agriculture Committee draft bill, base acre payments over a six-year period would go up 36% for corn, 80% for soybeans a...
21 May 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack defended USDA's use of the Commodity Credit Corp. fund, saying a House farm bill provision that would tie the secretary's hands would be a "mistake." Vilsack on Monday held a call with reporters to highlight $300 million in trade grant awards to 66 organizations under the Regional Agricultural Promot...
20 May 2024
This article was originally published at 3:02 p.m. CDT on Monday, May 20. It was last updated with additional information at 3:52 p.m. CDT on Monday, May 20. ** OMAHA (DTN) -- Corn planting progress made a big jump last week to nearly catch up to the five-year average, while soybean planting continued slightly ahead of the average pace, USDA NASS s...
20 May 2024
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- The nation's two largest ethanol interest groups petitioned the Supreme Court on Monday to overturn a lower court ruling that threw out EPA's 2022 denial of six small-refinery exemption petitions to the Renewable Fuel Standard in 2023. The Renewable Fuels Association and Growth Energy argued in their petition that the U.S. Co...