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28 Mar 2023
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- With the EPA facing legal challenges to the waters of the U.S. rule (WOTUS) and pushback from Congress, EPA Administrator Michael Regan told a House committee on Tuesday he does not agree with a characterization by ag groups and now 26 states that the WOTUS rule illegally expands federal authority over waters. Regan testified...
28 Mar 2023
The spring season has certainly been an active season thus far. Severe storms are picking up, exemplified by the tragic tornado that plowed through Mississippi March 24 that killed at least 26 people. Snow continues to fall, sometimes in heavy bands. One occurred with that same system across eastern Iowa through eastern Wisconsin that dropped over ...
27 Mar 2023
MT. JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- Illinois may have set a record statewide average corn yield in 2022, but the nation's highest-yielding county can be found in Idaho. Six of the nation's top 10 county corn yield averages come from Illinois, according to data from the National Agricultural Statistics Service Quick Stats database. Two of the top county aver...
23 Mar 2023
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- Over the objection of EPA attorneys, a federal judge on Wednesday granted agriculture groups' motion to intervene in an ongoing lawsuit filed by 24 states challenging the Biden administration's waters of the U.S. rule. Though the WOTUS rule took effect on March 20, the U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota also...
22 Mar 2023
OMAHA (DTN) -- Everyone in Congress loves "cutting-edge" agricultural research, they just don't pay for it very well. The result is that dollar for dollar, U.S. agricultural research spending actually declined over the past decade while China, the European Union, India and Brazil -- among others -- have increased their investments in agricultural r...