Todd Neeley

CHS Inc. and Cargill signed an agreement on Tuesday for CHS to buy eight grain facilities in five states. The financial terms of the agreement were not provided.

E15 sales will be allowed to continue across the country this summer after the Biden administration approved an emergency waiver Friday.

Seed companies, the state of Nebraska and the owners of a now-defunct ethanol plant in Nebraska have asked courts for a stay in ongoing cases related to the environmental cleanup of the plant, as work continues to reach a...

A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a federal lawsuit that alleged Zeeland, Michigan-based Boersen Farms sold equipment it didn't own.

The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Texas rancher Richie DeVillier and other property owners along Interstate 10 in Texas can sue for compensation under the Constitution after loss of land...

Miner County, South Dakota, farmer Arlen Foster continues to wait for the Supreme Court's decision on whether to consider his wetland determination case.

Michigan officials confirmed on Friday that three more commercial dairy herds in the state have tested positive for highly pathogenic avian influenza.

Archer Daniels Midland broke ground Thursday on a 500,000-square-foot biorefinery expected to use corn syrup to produce low-carbon acids.

A group of 13 states petitioned a federal appeals court in St. Louis to vacate the Biden administration's national pollution standards for vehicles that mandates automobile companies to ramp up the production of electric vehicles.

A federal judge in Michigan rejected former Decatur, Michigan, farmer Michael Stamp's request for a reduced sentence. Stamp is serving an eight-year sentence after pleading guilty to crop insurance and bank fraud.

California is allowed to continue implementing a policy that would ban the sale of gasoline-powered vehicles in the state by 2035 after a federal appeals court sided with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in a lawsuit filed by...

Pork industry officials are in Washington, D.C., this week talking to members of Congress about several issues, including pressing for federal legislation to address Proposition 12.

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.

A dairy in Ohio tests positive for highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI). The Wood County dairy reportedly received cows from a Texas dairy where HPAI was later confirmed.

As farmers faced quickly rising fertilizer prices between 2017 and 2022, new Ag Census data shows how producers reacted on the ground to change usage and turn to more conservation practices.

Biofuels, refining and environmental groups are making cases for a federal appeals court to vacate EPA's Renewable Fuel Standard set rule finalized in June 2023.

A new analysis by USDA officials on behalf of the University of California finds California consumers are paying more for pork than consumers across the country to coincide with implementation of Proposition 12.

Tyson Fresh Meats argues in a new court brief filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, that the company never had an agreement with Cody Easterday to pay him for the use of his likeness on beef marketed in...

The CEO of Bayer said the company will intensify its focus on defending Roundup in court as Bayer continues to push for legislation to provide companies with more product liability protection for products approved for use by the...

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.

A federal court in Massachusetts is considering a motion filed by Triumph Foods and other plaintiffs to end the state's ban on pork sales coming from producers who don't follow the animal welfare law.

Tyson Foods and JBS USA Food Company have settled with a group of current and former employees who sued many companies, claiming they allegedly conspired to fix wages. Tyson and JBS USA agreed to cooperate with the plaintiffs...

The South Dakota Legislature on Wednesday passed three bills designed to protect landowners while giving carbon pipeline companies such as Summit Carbon Solutions a path toward completing such projects.

The U.S. Securities Exchange Commission finalized an emissions-reporting rule on Wednesday that exempts farms and ranches from reporting.

Agriculture and fuel groups asked the EPA to deny a December petition by refiners to change the biofuels credit program in the Renewable Fuel Standard.

Environmental groups led by Food and Water Watch filed an opening brief in an appeals court on a challenge of EPA's rejection of a petition to tighten regulations on confined animal feeding operations.

Twenty-four states and numerous agriculture and other industry groups asked a federal court in North Dakota to vacate the Biden administration's amended waters of the U.S., or WOTUS, rule.

Farmer plaintiffs in an ongoing antitrust lawsuit filed against John Deere have asked a federal court to delay legal proceedings while both sides continue to work out disagreements on a request for data.

Summit Carbon Solutions announced Monday that Valero has agreed to connect eight of its 12 corn-ethanol plants to a planned carbon pipeline.

The Biden administration on Friday announced a delay past a March 1 deadline to provide tax guidance on a new tax credit designed to increase sustainable aviation fuel production.

The owners of Ace Black Ranches in southwest Idaho were sued by the EPA this week, alleging work done to install irrigation systems and other work violated the Clean Water Act.

A federal lawsuit filed in Michigan alleges that Zeeland, Michigan-based Boersen Farms stole 112 items of equipment and fraudulently transferred them to numerous entities.

Former Express Grain CEO John R. Coleman pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud this week in a plea agreement announced by the court.

The CEO of Summit Carbon Solutions told ethanol producers and farmers at the National Ethanol Conference in San Diego this week, that the company will do what it takes to push the carbon pipeline project across the finish line.

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack said on Tuesday the Biden administration plans to implement permanent year-round E15 sales in eight Midwest states, with waivers expected to allow E15 sales to continue nationally this summer.

The former CEO of a grain company in Mississippi is scheduled for a Feb. 22 hearing to consider a change in plea on wire fraud charges. The trial is set for Feb. 26.

Federal prosecutors tell an appeals court the sentence and restitution for a Nebraska farmer who pled guilty to bank fraud should stand.

A federal judge in Massachusetts rules that an animal welfare law exemption for federally licensed slaughterhouses in the state is unconstitutional.

Agriculture interest groups have asked EPA Administrator Michael Regan to allow for the use of existing dicamba stocks after federal court vacated three registrations of the herbicide.

Funeral services have been set for Saturday in Des Moines for former Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey who died suddenly on Monday.

A federal court in Arizona vacated the dicamba registrations of three products, ruling the EPA violated notice-and-comment laws on new-use registrations.

Iowa's former Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey died suddenly on Monday. He was 64.

The EPA this week announced it would require no additional mitigation measures for the use of the herbicide paraquat, in a review document released on Tuesday.

The Center for Biological Diversity filed an amended lawsuit this week challenging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on implementation of the Endangered Species Act.

The American Farm Bureau and the Western Growers Association were among agriculture and business groups suing the state of California on Tuesday, challenging two climate reporting laws they argue are unconstitutional.

A Pennsylvania man was awarded $2.25 billion in damages by a jury last week in a Roundup product liability trial in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas.

A study published in the journal Nature found groundwater is declining in many aquifers across the world. The study, however, found it was possible to reverse those trends through proper management of water resources.

Summit Carbon Solutions and Poet LLC reached an agreement to add 17 Poet ethanol plants in Iowa and South Dakota to a proposed 1,250-mile carbon pipeline project still working its way through regulatory hurdles.

Iowa corn growers and ethanol producers point to a sense of urgency to implement carbon capture and sequestration at ethanol plants across the state to reap the benefits of the expansion of sustainable aviation fuel production.

The EPA is considering a petition filed by two refiners to change the renewable identification numbers (RINs) program in the Renewable Fuel Standard.

EPA this week is launching a public comment period for a proposed rule to limit pollution runoff from meatpacking plants across the country.

The New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday pulled a proposal to create a new category of stocks called natural asset companies, after landowners, federal and state lawmakers and others raised concerns the proposal could allow...

A coalition of environmental and agriculture interests have asked the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice to investigate Koch Industries' $3.6 billion acquisition of an Iowa fertilizer plant.