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9 Nov 2015
By Alastair StewartDTN South America Correspondent SAO PAULO, Brazil (DTN) -- The belated arrival of spring rains to the center-west and southeast of Brazil at the end of October and the first week of November caused the 2015-16 soybean planting to accelerate sharply last week, though progress is still well behind the five-year average pace. Planti...
6 Nov 2015
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Several major agricultural groups want the U.S. Supreme Court to define whether states or the federal government has authority under the Clean Water Act to implement and enforce specific nutrient standards In a 44-page petition for writ of certiorari filed with the high court Friday, groups led by th...
6 Nov 2015
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- More than six months after the first case of highly pathogenic bird flu hit their state, Iowa officials on Friday announced that quarantines had been lifted for all 72 commercial poultry farms affected by the virus. The H5N2 highly pathogenic avian influenza outbreak last spring is considered the...
6 Nov 2015
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy EditorandTodd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- Art Tanderup came in from harvesting corn to see the announcement. President Barack Obama said Friday he was ending the permit process for the Keystone XL pipeline. "I don't remember when I've ever been so danged happy," Tanderup said in a phone interview. "There wa...
5 Nov 2015
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- The boards of directors for two Iowa farmer cooperatives have voted to let their members decide on a proposed merger that would make the new company one of the largest in the country, according to a news release from the companies Thursday. Farmers Cooperative Co. and West Central Cooperative this wee...