Agriculture and biofuels groups said the Biden administration's new vehicle emissions rule leaves ethanol and other biofuels out of the picture in cutting pollution.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told reporters USDA had to fill in a 5.2% increase departmentwide in salaries with a flat budget that came seven months into the year. That was a big driver for NASS having to cut back on three different surveys for cattle, cotton and county yield data. Groups are now increasingly complaining over dropping those three reports.
A cold front moving through the Northern Plains will start to produce more showers and thunderstorms across Nebraska this evening that will spread through the rest of the Plains and Midwest for Thursday. » More DTN Weather Commentary
With an August deadline looming, EPA released an update this week to its draft Herbicide Strategy. It describes improvements the agency said will increase flexibility and ease of implementation while still protecting threatened and endangered species.
The U.S. International Trade Commission is considering a petition filed by Corteva Agriscience LLC to impose antidumping and countervailing duties on Indian and Chinese imports of the herbicide 2,4-D.
