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29 Nov 2018
By Jerry HagstromDTN Political Correspondent WASHINGTON, D.C. (DTN) -- The farm bill continues to be bogged down with conflicts over forestry programs that the Trump Administration is insisting on to deal with forest fires. As congressional leaders were expected to consider how to handle forestry policy in the farm bill conference report this week...
28 Nov 2018
By Jerry HagstromDTN Political Correspondent WASHINGTON (DTN) -- House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady, R-Texas, released a tax and oversight package Monday that includes retirement and other savings enhancements, legislation to redesign the Internal Revenue Service, and temporary tax relief for victims of the wildfires in California ...
28 Nov 2018
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- A Louisiana congressman who serves on the House Agriculture Committee wants to change the way soybean farmers are paid under USDA's trade-aid program. Rep. Ralph Abraham, a Republican who represents most of eastern Louisiana bordering Mississippi and Arkansas, introduced a bill to adjust how USDA...
28 Nov 2018
By Emily UnglesbeeDTN Staff Reporter ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- EPA's decision to continue the registration of three dicamba herbicides has reverberated far beyond D.C. -- through Midwest soybean fields, Southern cotton fields and all the way to Seattle, Washington, where the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is mulling a lawsuit over these very her...
27 Nov 2018
By Victoria G. MyersProgressive Farmer Senior Editor When Reiss and Heather Bruning wanted to move a generations-old operation from a long tradition of private treaty sales to public auction, they found it easier to ask for forgiveness than permission. "We lined it all up, told them the sale date and hoped everything would work out the way we want...