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1 May 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- Prospective farm bill plans laid out in both the U.S. House and Senate would see some tweaks to reference prices, potentially allow some farmers to add new base acres and expand crop insurance coverage for farmers as well. After months of talks and delay, the leaders of the House and Senate Agriculture Committees each laid out separa...
1 May 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- Biofuel and farm groups on Tuesday came out of the chute both declaring the importance of new guidelines for Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) tax credits while also arguing the new rules are too prescriptive on farm practices such as making demands to grow cover crops. A collection of groups and interests immediately weighed in after ...
30 Apr 2024
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (DTN) -- Acephate, an insecticide commonly used by soybean and cotton farmers in the Midsouth to control stink bugs, will be a chemical tool removed from the proverbial toolbox under an EPA proposal now out for a 60-day public comment period. Today, EPA released its proposed interim decision (PID) to cancel all but one use of ac...
30 Apr 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- Biofuel producers and farmers will essentially have the rest of 2024 as a "safe harbor" or "pilot project" to figure out how they will account for climate-smart practices on farms to garner longer-term tax credit for producing a low-carbon jet fuel. The Biden administration on Tuesday released details spelling out how ethanol and bio...
29 Apr 2024
This article was originally published at 3:08 p.m. CDT on Monday, April 29. It was last updated with additional information at 3:35 p.m. CDT on Monday, April 29. ** OMAHA (DTN) -- Corn planting bumped up to 27% of the country's expected planting, five percentage points higher than the five-year planting average, USDA NASS said in its weekly Crop Pr...