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19 Jun 2020
STORM LAKE, Iowa (DTN) -- The coronavirus is still spreading in parts of rural America and more cases are showing up as testing increases.Communities with spikes in COVID-19 cases say they are left working out responses themselves as stay-at-home orders are cancelled and business restrictions are largely going away as well. It's mostly up to busine...
19 Jun 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- The EPA posted 52 new small-refinery exemptions requests from previous years on the agency's Renewable Fuel Standard dashboard on Thursday, drawing outrage from biofuels groups that have been calling on the agency to renew its transparency pledge.The agency now lists six pending requests each for 2011 and 2012, 10 each for 2013 and 2...
18 Jun 2020
STORM LAKE, Iowa (DTN) -- The coronavirus is still spreading in parts of rural America and more cases are showing up as testing increases.Communities with spikes in COVID-19 cases say they are left working out responses themselves as stay-at-home orders are cancelled and business restrictions are largely going away as well. It's mostly up to busine...
18 Jun 2020
DECATUR, Ill. (DTN) -- Every day is Father's Day for Ryan Jenkins and Reid Thompson.Both men have fathers as partners in their farming businesses. Both are raising children surrounded by the rural experience.As Father's Day approaches, DTN asked Jenkins and Thompson to reflect on "dad stuff" and current crop conditions as part of DTN's ongoing View...
17 Jun 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- A federal judge Friday ruled North Carolina's so-called "ag-gag" law is unconstitutional, in yet another loss for laws across the country designed to prevent animal-rights groups from conducting undercover investigations of livestock operations.A number of animal-rights groups, including People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, o...