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4 May 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- As Democrats in Congress look to line up provisions of the infrastructure package and a family relief plan, a House Education & Labor Subcommittee held a hearing Monday concentrated heavily on expanding overtime wages for farmworkers. The hearing highlighted overtime exclusions in the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), going back to 19...
3 May 2021
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- EPA asked a federal court Friday to vacate three small-refinery exemptions (SRE) the outgoing Trump administration granted on Jan. 19, just days before the Biden administration was to take office. In a motion filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit in Denver, the agency said it did not follow proper procedure ...
3 May 2021
This article was originally posted at 3:04 p.m. CDT on Monday, May 3. It was last updated at 3:43 p.m. CDT on Monday, May 3. ** OMAHA (DTN) -- After trailing the five-year average pace the previous week, corn planting jumped back to well ahead of normal last week as farmers took advantage of the much warmer weather to return to fieldwork with a ven...
3 May 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- A vast majority of cattle producers have much interest in caring for the environment and pasture preservation practices, a recent survey sponsored by Elanco revealed. In addition, most producers understand the benefits of such organisms as dung beetles and earthworms in grassland ecology. The findings showed 90% of cattle producers p...
30 Apr 2021
By DTN Staff OMAHA (DTN) -- Agricultural corn seed giants started working on a containment strategy as Nebraska environmental regulators began taking stock of the pesticide and fungicide contamination at an ethanol plant that processed treated seeds almost exclusively. Seed companies stepped in and hired a company to take over environmental cleanup...