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30 Oct 2018
By Mary Kennedy DTN Cash Grains Analyst The U.S. Department of Transportation's (DOT) Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) asked for public comment on their Aug. 23, 2018, Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM), to determine if Hours of Service (HOS) revisions may alleviate unnecessary burdens placed on drivers while maintain...
30 Oct 2018
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- Methane digesters are the new growth wave in renewable energy for agriculture. The stick and the carrot are both at work here. As livestock operations work on ways to manage manure, the changing landscape of environmental regulations and legal challenges -- along with state and federal grants and ...
30 Oct 2018
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Environmental groups want the EPA to change the method used to account for land-use changes associated with the Renewable Fuel Standard, alleging in a petition filed on Tuesday that the agency hasn't followed the law. Under the Energy Independence and Security Act that includes the RFS, crops produced...
29 Oct 2018
By Todd HultmanDTN Analyst With combines back in the fields again this week, the bears were back out in force as far as crop prices were concerned. From last Friday's close to Thursday afternoon, December corn was down 6 cents and November soybeans were down 15 cents, also pressured by disappointing exports. In the case of soybeans, we have to kee...
29 Oct 2018
By Dan Crummett Progressive Farmer Contributor The early evening of Aug. 11, 2016, saw Megan King and her husband, Buddy, working calves on horseback near their home in Okeene, in northwest Oklahoma. "We had to move a dead calf," King recalled, "and I was dallying the rope on my saddle horn when I dropped the rope and somehow spooked the horse I wa...