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16 Jan 2018
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter WASHINGTON (DTN) -- President Donald Trump's administration and some members of Congress want oil and ethanol interests to just get along and work out their differences on the Renewable Fuel Standard. But the leader of the nation's largest ethanol industry interest group told DTN in an exclusive interview on Thursda...
16 Jan 2018
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor WASHINGTON (DTN) -- An overhaul of agricultural guest-worker programs is a major component of a House plan to fix the immigration status of young people involved in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA) that is entangled in the latest immigration battle on Capitol Hill. Conservatives in the ...
12 Jan 2018
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter WASHINGTON (DTN) -- On Oct. 11, 2008, one of the nation's largest ethanol producers, VeraSun Energy, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The action left thousands of farmers who sold corn to the South Dakota company's ethanol plants at a loss. What compounded those losses, attorney Joseph A. Peiffer said, is...
12 Jan 2018
By Darin NewsomDTN Senior Analyst As I've said countless times over the years, USDA's January set of numbers are the Super Bowl (overhyped), Daytona 500 (a lot of noise) and Kentucky Derby (come and gone quickly) of government reports. So much is made over so little actual information by so many. Keep an eye on post-report chatter, because most o...
12 Jan 2018
By John HarringtonDTN Livestock Analyst Long before there was GPS, industrial lasers and 3-D topographical mapping, there was Burl Hooker, the land-leveling genius of my youth who Dad would call whenever he decided drought conditions had stolen another corn crop by late July for the last time. Burl would arrive at the project site armed with nothin...