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3 Jun 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- Springfield, Illinois, farmer Kurt Wilke won in court four times against USDA's Natural Resources Service. But it wasn't enough.For nearly a decade, NRCS insisted 22 acres of Wilke's 80-acre farm was wetlands, and NRCS continued to make that claim even after courts disagreed -- four times."It's been frustrating because you enter into...
3 Jun 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- The Food and Drug Administration has temporarily relieved some restrictions on hand sanitizer produced by ethanol plants in an effort to allow companies to continue to maintain supplies amid COVID-19, the agency announced in a news release on Monday.The ethanol industry has seen its market crash as a result of the COVID-19 economic s...
3 Jun 2020
This article was originally posted at 3:08 p.m. CDT on Monday, June 1. It was last updated at 4:16 p.m. CDT on Monday, June 1.**OMAHA (DTN) -- U.S. corn planting steadily moved toward the finish line while soybean planting reached the three-quarters finished mark last week, USDA NASS said in its weekly Crop Progress report on Monday.NASS estimated ...
2 Jun 2020
GLENWOOD, Iowa (DTN) -- President Donald Trump on Friday again pushed to place more sanctions on China by declaring that Hong Kong is no longer autonomous, and the United States will eliminate special trade and policy benefits that have been granted to the territory over time.The president laid out several punitive measures against China on Friday,...
1 Jun 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- Of the 40 locations DTN contacted that showed offers for domestic distillers dried grains (DDG) for the week ended May 28, posted offers averaged $141 per ton, down $2 versus the prior week.The cash corn price has improved on average versus one week ago and basis has strengthened, but that has had little effect on current DDG prices....