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6 Dec 2021
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- Meat and poultry groups told USDA they want cultured-meat cell products to be distinctly labeled so as to avoid consumer confusion, in comments submitted to the agency for a proposed labeling rulemaking. USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service closed a public comment period on Dec. 2, as part of a request for comments ahead...
6 Dec 2021
Parting is such sweet sorrow. Every year, in late November, those of us river watchers in St. Paul, Minnesota, stare sadly at an empty river devoid of barges. At the height of summer, about 100 barges line the Mississippi River in downtown St. Paul and around the bend heading south until tows claimed them and moved them south down river either full...
6 Dec 2021
WASHINGTON (DTN) -- Sarah Vogel, the former North Dakota agriculture commissioner who famously won a class-action suit against the Agriculture Department's attempts in the 1980s to foreclose on the farmers it was supposed to help, has written a memoir of that struggle, "The Farmer's Lawyer: The North Dakota Nine and the Fight to Save the Family Far...
3 Dec 2021
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- With rumors swirling EPA will cut Renewable Fuel Standard volumes perhaps in the coming days, biofuels and agriculture groups on Friday pressed the agency to get the law back on track during a public hearing on a proposal to extend 2019-2021 compliance deadlines for refiners. EPA missed the statutory deadline to finalize volu...
3 Dec 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- Four grain elevators in Denton, Montana, were lost to one of the wildfires this week that have been sweeping through parts of Montana as the state faces unusually dry, warm and windy conditions. The grain elevators that were lost were owned by CHS Inc. and were operational before the fire, according to the Fergus County, Montana, She...