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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Thursday, May 23, 2024
Livestock haulers will get another 90-day waiver on hours of service trucking regulations, the U.S. Dept. of Transportation announced Tuesday. That buys ag organizations a little more time to negotiate a long-term solution. But will 90 days be enough?
After making some comments suggesting he wasn’t happy with Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue’s approach to biofuels policy, Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley now says he was “perhaps a little bit too strong” in some of his criticism.
The National Biodiesel Board is once again pushing for an extension of the biodiesel tax credit and will testify before a House subcommittee today to make their case.
The Department of Agriculture is taking final steps to withdraw the organic animal welfare rule, setting an effective date for the regulation’s formal repeal.
A new study from Iowa State University says a compromise said to be on the table in biofuel conversations would lead to a dip in the price of corn and less use of conventional corn ethanol.
The nation's corn farmers expect to hear from their Secretary of Agriculture about how the industry’s top cabinet member is advocating on their behalf – especially when it comes to support of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS)
The flurry of consolidations in the ag industry has presented a new topic for debate in many recently-rearranged boardrooms: What in the heck should we call this thing?
The Commerce Department today took the final step to authorizing retaliatory action against imports of biodiesel from Argentina and Indonesia, setting the final rates importers must pay to bring the biofuel into the U.S.