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10 Mar 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- Michael Regan is the new administrator of the EPA after the full U.S. Senate confirmed his nomination in a 66-34 vote on Wednesday. Regan, the former secretary of the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality, faces big questions about the future of regulation in agriculture as he takes the helm of the agency. The Biden admi...
10 Mar 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- With the final passage of the American Rescue Plan, Black farmers such as Eddie Slaughter from Buena Vista, Georgia, say they will finally see some relief from long-term debts hanging over them with Farm Service Agency loans. "If they hadn't passed this legislation, the only way a lot of farmers would get out from under all of this d...
10 Mar 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- A federal lawsuit challenging EPA's approval of atrazine and two related herbicides, propazine and simazine, has been stayed as part of the Biden administration's review of Trump administration actions. That lawsuit was filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco in November 2020, by the Rural Coalition,...
9 Mar 2021
By DTN Staff This article was originally posted at 11:01 a.m. CST. It was updated at 12:09 p.m. ** OMAHA (DTN) -- USDA on Tuesday released its March Crop Production and World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) reports. USDA held pat on demand and domestic ending stocks for corn, soybeans and wheat in the March World Agricultural Suppl...
9 Mar 2021
The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) unveiled their 2021 Report Card for America's Infrastructure on Wednesday, March 3. The nation earned a C-, up from 2017's cumulative GPA of D+. This is the first time since ASCE began issuing the report card that the nation's infrastructure has received a GPA outside of the D range. Between 2017 and 2...