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24 Nov 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- EPA asked a federal court to throw out a handful of lawsuits alleging the agency failed in its legal responsibility to clean up the Chesapeake Bay, in a motion filed on Friday. Lawsuits filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and the states of Maryland, Virginia and Delaware, alo...
24 Nov 2020
WASHINGTON (DTN) -- The National Turkey Federation (NTF) on Monday showed off the turkeys that will be presented to President Donald Trump on Tuesday for a pardoning ceremony. The turkeys, named Corn and Cob, were raised by NTF Chairman Ron Kardel, an Iowa turkey producer, and were introduced at a news conference at the Willard Intercontinental Hot...
23 Nov 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- A coalition of agriculture and biofuel groups is asking a federal appeals court to order the EPA to restore 500 million gallons of ethanol to the Renewable Fuel Standard. In 2017, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled the EPA had illegally waived the gallons from the 2016 Renewable Fuel Standard renewab...
23 Nov 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- The average price for domestic distillers dried grains (DDG) from the 40 locations DTN contacted with spot offers for the week ended Nov. 19 was $195 per ton, up $8 on average from the prior week. DDG prices continue to push higher as supplies in some areas are tight. One merchandiser told me he was nearly sold out in one plant for t...
23 Nov 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- Smithfield Foods Inc. settled with a group of North Carolina plaintiffs who won in court on a nuisance lawsuit against hog farms, after a federal appeals court on Thursday upheld a verdict in the case. Early in 2018, juries in three separate trials in Raleigh, North Carolina, awarded punitive damages totaling more than $500 million t...