A rule to allow year-round E15 sales in eight Midwest states is under final review. American Coalition for Ethanol CEO Brian Jennings tells Brownfield after nearly two years, EPA has sent the rule to the Office of Management and Budget. “We needed and wanted EPA to send this rule to OMB many months ago to be brutally honest, and that’s why they were sued by the attorneys general for Iowa and Nebraska. But December 19th, we’ll take it.”

Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack says Congress should look outside the nutrition title to address funding issues in the upcoming farm bill. The comments come as many Capitol Hill Republicans say there should be “more farm in the farm bill” and look to curb the growth of spending on nutrition assistance programs.

LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is set to restore registration of the insecticide chlorpyrifos after a federal appeals court in November threw out the agency's complete ban on the chemical.

Decisions around sow barn remodeling, reducing sow herd inventory, and adjusting gilt flow are some of the challenges U.S. pork producers face as they explore and consider options to make farms compliant with California’s Proposition 12 requirements. A new resource from Iowa Pork Industry Center offers information for producers who plan to transition their own production.

A ruling by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service allows farmers and growers to run trials on corn plants developed by Insignum AgTech. These plants use naturally occurring pigment to signal when specific plant stresses begin.

Changes to student loan qualifications have raised concerns in the U.S. Senate. Iowa Republican Chuck Grassley says as high schoolers fill out Free Application for Student Aid forms so families can find out how much assistance is available for college, new criteria for the formula would treat family farms unfairly.

OMAHA (DTN) -- Koch Ag & Energy Solutions (KAES) announced Monday that it has reached an agreement to acquire OCI Global's nitrogen fertilizer plant in Wever, Iowa, for $3.6 billion. Once the transaction is finalized, KAES will have 100% ownership of the facility located along the Mississippi River in southeastern Iowa. The plant was opened in 2017 and has the capacity to produce 3.5 million metric tons of nitrogen fertilizers and diesel exhaust fluid annually.

The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing tightened water discharge limits for some meat and poultry processing plants around the country, potentially forcing a few facilities to shut down. A preferred option laid out by the agency would tighten existing nitrogen limits and set the first phosphorus standard for plants that discharge directly into rivers and other bodies considered waters of the U.S.

Most rural Nebraskans report being unfamiliar with the Farm Bill and federal agricultural policy, according to the 2023 Nebraska Rural Poll.

This year, Iowa farmers planted cover crops on thousands of acres to improve soil health, protect their land from erosion, and more. Many of these producers are now eligible for a $5 per acre discount on their crop insurance. The deadline to sign up is Jan. 26.

An ag economist says there was a tone shift from the Federal Reserve after it held interest rates steady for a third consecutive month. David Widmar, with Agricultural Economic Insights, says there have been some gains in the battle against inflation. “And then they signaled the possibility of three rate declines for 2024,” he says.

OMAHA (DTN) -- Some farm groups see gains within the Biden administration over competition and fair practices with poultry and livestock. Still, they are asking the White House and USDA to pick up the pace when it comes to writing new rules for the Packers and Stockyards Act.

The Treasury Department on Friday released long-awaited guidance on a new tax credit for sustainable aviation fuel that will allow agricultural commodities to qualify as SAF feedstocks under an updated version of the Energy Department’s relatively ag-friendly model for calculating the carbon intensity of biofuels, administration officials say.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture issued its 2023 Farms and Ranches at a Glance Report. Chad Smith has more on what it says about American farming.

Smithfield Foods donated more than 32,000 pounds of protein, the equivalent of 130,000 servings, to the Northern Illinois Food Bank. This donation of pork products will help fight hunger and provide nutritionally important protein for Illinois families this holiday season.

U.S. farmers and ethanol producers will be a key cog in the growth of the sustainable aviation fuel industry for the foreseeable future after the U.S. Department of Treasury announced Friday it will use a modified version of a popular greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions model to determine how it allocates tax credits in the Inflation Reduction Act.

House Agriculture Committee Chairman Glenn “GT” Thompson said Thursday that he now hopes to move a new farm bill by March. Meanwhile, his staff has started briefing farm organizations and other groups this week on possible sources of funding that face resistance from Democrats.

A bill has been introduced in the Senate that would require USDA to study competition and trends in the fertilizer market.

Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig and seven other Secretaries, Commissioners, and Directors of Agriculture from Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Missouri, Ohio, Nebraska, and Wyoming sent a letter Wednesday to United States Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack raising concerns about a new rule allowing for the importation of beef from Paraguay.

The wreath that Payton, age 12, and Aria Duwe, 9, will lay on their great-grandfather’s grave is just one of thousands that Lawrence County 4-H’ers plan to leave at the Springfield National Cemetery during this year’s Wreaths for Warriors ceremony 11 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 16.

If green jackets were awarded for raising corn, David Hula could fill a closet. He holds more National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) Yield Contest titles than Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods have combined Masters Tournaments wins.

Bipartisan members of the House voted 330-99 in support of the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act allowing whole milk and 2% milk to again be allowed in school lunches.

The U.S. Treasury Department could soon issue guidance on sustainable aviation fuel tax credits.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Wednesday announced that it will begin issuing more than $223 million in Pandemic Assistance Revenue Program (PARP) payments. These payments help producers who suffered a decrease in allowable gross revenue due to the COVID-19 pandemic for the 2020 calendar year.

Food safety and agriculture worker groups asked the EPA to cancel all glyphosate registrations in a petition filed on Wednesday, calling the registration for the main ingredient in Roundup "illegal."

The National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) is excited to announce the winners of the 2023 National Corn Yield Contest. This group of farmers put up some impressive yields and proved, once again, the ingenuity and resiliency of the U.S. farmer.

U.S. agriculture and other sectors of the American economy will need to prepare for more trade tensions and likely retaliation from China if Congress follows through on a sweeping set of recommendations to "reset" the relationship between the two countries.

U.S. pork exports posted another strong performance in October, led by record-large shipments to Mexico and broad-based growth elsewhere, according to data released by USDA and compiled by the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF).