Todd Neeley

A federal judge in North Dakota will allow agriculture and other business interest groups to intervene in a lawsuit filed by 24 states against the new waters of the U.S. rule.

The Minnesota Legislature is considering legislation that would regulate treated seed and its disposal in the state, following an environmental disaster at an ethanol plant in Mead, Nebraska.

The Supreme Court has been asked to clarify where powers lie to enforce the Clean Water Act, with states or the federal government.

A federal judge in Texas granted a preliminary injunction on Sunday, stopping the EPA from enforcing the Biden administration's waters of the U.S. rule in Texas and Idaho. The court denied a request by agriculture groups to issue...

Bayer asked a federal appeals court to rule that federal label laws on Roundup pre-empt state laws on cancer warnings.

The Minnesota Soybean Growers Association and other biofuels and agriculture interest groups filed a federal lawsuit Monday, challenging the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency's adoption of California's zero-emissions vehicle mandate.

A bipartisan group of U.S. senators on Tuesday reintroduced a bill that would make permanent E15 sales nationally.

Minnesota lawmakers last week advanced a clean transportation standard bill similar to California's low-carbon fuel standard, as state agriculture and biofuels groups raise concerns about the measure.

Farmers in nine states will have access to $20 million in cost-share to help repair damage to grain storage caused by natural disasters in 2021 and 2022.

ClearFlame Engine Technologies has received $30 million in new funding as the company focuses on commercializing its ethanol-diesel technology first in long-haul trucks.

As ag groups try to intervene in a WOTUS federal lawsuit filed in North Dakota, the EPA is fighting that move in court.

Ethanol industry group representatives talked about the state of year-round E15, the move toward sustainable aviation fuel and electric renewable identification numbers, or E-RINs, during a panel discussion at a Nebraska Ethanol...

The U.S. Trade Representative has asked for a formal meeting with Mexican authorities to discuss the country's plans to ban genetically engineered corn from human consumption.

County law enforcement authorities in rural Nebraska continue to investigate an animal cruelty and neglect case where a father and son have been charged with multiple felonies. Authorities have seized more than 1,100 animals and...

As a new Congress is underway in Washington, D.C., a panel at the national ethanol conference in Orlando, Florida, sized up the chances of new lawmakers supporting efforts to create low-carbon, high-octane fuels legislation.

The head of the Renewable Fuels Association told an ethanol industry audience on Wednesday that 2022 will go down as one of the best years for biofuels.

The EPA released a proposal Wednesday that would allow permanent E15 sales in eight states beginning in 2024. The proposal, however, does not address whether E15 will be allowed for sale in June through September this year.

A group of 28 members of the U.S. House of Representatives raised concerns about USDA efforts to track purchases of U.S. ag land by foreign buyers. An Auburn University associate professor told an audience at the USDA Ag...

A coalition of 24 states sued the Biden administration in a federal court in North Dakota, challenging the new waters of the U.S. rule.

A federal appeals court has ruled that North Carolina's ag-gag law violates the Constitution by forbidding undercover investigations and whistleblowing.

A federal court in North Carolina is consolidating numerous lawsuits filed by farmers across the country, claiming antitrust damages as a result of companies allegedly blocking competitors from selling less-expensive generic crop...

Though the EPA does not regulate pesticide-treated seed as pesticides, a number of environmental groups have asked a court in California to require the state to regulate those seeds.

The Colorado House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a bill that would require equipment manufacturers to provide all necessary materials needed to repair farm equipment. Similar bills have...

The U.S. Department of Labor finds a Wisconsin-based packer sanitation company employed at least 102 minors in hazardous overnight jobs at 13 packing plants in eight states. Packers Sanitation Services Inc. LTD paid $1.5 million in...

Former eastern Washington rancher Cody Allen Easterday filed a second lawsuit against Tyson Fresh Meats this week, alleging the company committed antitrust violations during the course of their business dealings.

EPA released a proposal on Thursday to return to 2015 Worker Protection Standard rules on application exclusion zones for spraying pesticides.

The Senate Environment and Public Works committee explored the energy future during a hearing Wednesday, in particular, hearing from the trucking and ethanol industries about how a national low-carbon fuel standard might work.

An Iowa livestock company and four managers were sentenced in federal court after pleading guilty to conspiracy charges in a scheme to defraud hog farmers.

Although the Nebraska Legislature approved the reappointment of the state's top environmental officer on Tuesday, a state senator questioned the state's response to the environmental disaster at an ethanol plant in the village...

The Biden administration has inserted itself into the antitrust right-to-repair lawsuits filed against John Deere, asking a federal court to reject the company's argument in a recent motion.

A federal court in North Carolina has transferred a class-action lawsuit filed by a Texas farmer in Indiana to the same court where the Federal Trade Commission and 10 state attorneys general filed a complaint alleging two major...

Agriculture interest groups and the state of Texas asked a federal court for a national injunction against the new WOTUS rule, in motions filed separately this week.

A federal court in Nebraska has frozen the assets of AltEn LLC and its affiliated companies, as seed companies continue to conduct an environmental cleanup operation at a now-defunct ethanol plant in Mead, Nebraska.

Witnesses tell a House subcommittee on Wednesday that the Biden administration's new waters of the U.S. rule has broadly expanded federal authority over water and land.

A University of Nebraska-Lincoln professor said farmers should enroll in either Agricultural Risk Coverage or Price Loss Coverage ahead of the March 15 deadline, even though programs are unlikely to pay out.

A federal appeals court sided with two small refining companies that allege the EPA illegally reversed course on the small-refinery exemption program in the Renewable Fuel Standard.

Though environmental groups oppose the electronic renewable identification number program for fear it will incentivize the building of new confined animal feeding operations, the biogas industry is poised to grow without building a...

The EPA took the next steps in conducting an Endangered Species Act assessment on the insecticide cyantraniliprole, releasing a draft biological opinion on Tuesday.

Governors in half of the states asked the Biden administration on Monday to delay the implementation of the WOTUS rule until after the Supreme Court issues a ruling in the Sackett v EPA case...

A federal court sided with Archer Daniels Midland in an ethanol-markets lawsuit, ruling the company does not need to turn over documents generated by a law firm investigating an ADM employee at the center of the case. However...

A federal court ruled the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers followed the law while managing a navigation channel on a 195-miles stretch of the Mississippi River.

Based on data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, DTN found some surprises in ethanol-blending rates from 2021.

Environmental and health groups on Tuesday asked a federal court to require the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to either grant or reconsider a petition to stop allowing farmers to administer subtherapeutic levels of antibiotics...

Syngenta and Corteva told a federal court that so-called loyalty programs offered to ag product distributors are legal and asked a federal court in North Carolina to throw out a lawsuit filed by the Federal Trade Commission and...

Farmer plaintiffs who have sued John Deere in a class-action lawsuit for the right to repair farm equipment are trying to convince a federal court to deny a company motion seeking to end the case.

Iowa native and former U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Salvatore Giunta, U.S. Medal of Honor recipient, is scheduled to speak on March 1 during the National Ethanol Conference in Orlando, Florida.

A Virginia woman who worked as a farmworker from 2015 to 2018, alleges in a new lawsuit that Bayer and a law firm that represented her as part of a Roundup settlement on her cancer claims violated her civil rights by dropping the...

A federal court sided with the state of Oklahoma in an 18-year-old lawsuit against poultry producers in the Illinois River watershed in Arkansas and Oklahoma.

Several agriculture and other industry interest groups and the state of Texas filed separate lawsuits in the same federal court, seeking to vacate the Biden administration's final waters of the U.S. rule.

A federal court has appointed a Michigan State University distinguished professor of economics to serve as an expert in the class-action ethanol lawsuit filed against Archer Daniels Midland.

The state of Texas became the first state to sue the EPA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers following the issuance of a final waters of the U.S. rule.

A grand jury indicted Windom, Minnesota, farmer Adam Clifford Olson for his role in an alleged conspiracy to falsely sell $46 million in non-GMO corn and soybeans as organic. The new indictment alleges Olson aided James Clayton Wolf in...

As former eastern Washington rancher Cody Easterday begins serving an 11-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to one count of wire fraud, he has now sued Tyson Fresh Meats for breach of contract.

The EPA received pushback on its Renewable Fuel Standard proposal for 2023 to 2025, as farmers and biofuel producers told the agency during a public hearing Tuesday that investments in...

A survey of 1,999 registered voters finds support for the Renewable Fuel Standard and opposition to state mandates on electric vehicles.

USDA on Thursday announced money to support 25 meat-processing expansion projects in 15 states and is expected to make additional announcements in the coming months.

For the second time in three years a federal court in Illinois dismissed an ethanol market lawsuit against Archer Daniels Midland filed by Green Plains Inc.

U.S. agriculture groups were united in their opposition to EPA's latest final waters of the U.S. rule released on Friday.

EPA Agriculture Advisor Rod Snyder answered questions in a telephone interview with DTN about the waters of the U.S. rule finalized by the agency Friday.

The EPA on Friday finalized a new waters of the U.S., or WOTUS, rule just before the end of 2022. The rule writes into law eight ag and other exemptions, including prior-converted cropland.

Arby's, Carl's Jr., Hardee's, Green Burrito and Red Burrito brands, Burger King, Sonic and Whataburger filed separate antitrust lawsuits against major beef packing companies last week, alleging those companies conspired to reduce...