Todd Neeley

The Federal Trade Commission continues its antitrust lawsuit against Syngenta and Corteva despite administration change, alleging loyalty programs block cheaper generic pesticides from reaching...

The Canadian government on Tuesday ended its investigation into whether U.S. imports of renewable diesel harmed Canada's industry.

As the Trump administration continues to work on a revised waters of the U.S. rule, agriculture and environmental groups on Thursday showed how divided they are about federal jurisdiction.

A Missouri farmer who stars on the reality television series "The McBee Dynasty: Real American Cowboys" on Peacock, is set for sentencing on crop insurance fraud on Sept. 9.

The U.S. International Trade Commission made a final determination on Tuesday that imports of the herbicide 2,4-D from China and India have harmed Corteva Agriscience.

A federal judge allows Upside Foods to challenge Florida's lab-grown meat ban, ruling it may violate the dormant Commerce Clause by discriminating against interstate commerce.

The Trump administration granted an emergency waiver on Monday to allow E15 sales to continue throughout the summer months.

Miner County, South Dakota, farmer Arlen Foster waits for a federal court in the state to decide whether it will order USDA to re-review his wetlands determination.

A federal appeals court ruled the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was within its rights to reject a petition that sought stricter regulations for concentrated animal feeding operations.

Agriculture groups asked the Trump administration to write a clear WOTUS definition after the Sackett Supreme Court ruling, including a narrower scop, while environmental groups advocate for...

The Trump administration is reviewing a Clean Water Act lawsuit filed by the Biden administration against a Bruneau, Idaho, ranch.

The Trump administration proposes removing the "harm" definition from ESA, citing the Loper Bright Supreme Court ruling. Environmentalists warn this could eliminate habitat protections for endangered species nationwide.

An Alberta, Canada-based company that operates three swine facilities in South Dakota and Iowa told a court last week that their financier, Compeer Financial, was to blame for the handling of the companies' accounts and that...

Three Republican U.S. senators introduced a bill on April 8 designed to stop the national effects of California's animal-welfare law created after the passage of Proposition 12.

A group of executives from eight small-refinery companies asked the Trump administration to be involved in any additional meetings on the future of the Renewable Fuel Standard, in a letter sent to the White House at the end of...

An Alberta, Canada-based company that operates swine facilities in the U.S. has filed for bankruptcy protection in Canada amid allegations of running a check-kiting scheme to keep swine facilities running in Iowa and South Dakota.

Saskatchewan-based Monette Farms was ordered by the Supreme Court of British Columbia to pay a consultant $12 million for help provided on a $63 million ranch deal. Monette owns more than 350,000 acres of farm and ranch land in...

Sam Caton, the executive vice president of sales at Des Moines, Iowa-based Landus was named the interim CEO of the company after previous president and CEO Matthew Carstens resigned at the...

Steven A. McBee, a Missouri farmer and star of the agriculture reality television series "The McBee Dynasty: Real American Cowboys," is scheduled for sentencing on June 26 after pleading guilty to one count of crop insurance fraud.

A federal court in Texas has struck down a Biden administration rule on the lesser prairie chicken in a lawsuit filed in part by farmers and ranchers in Kansas.

As biofuels, agriculture and petroleum groups are expected to meet at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to discuss the future of the Renewable Fuel Standard, a group of fuel distributors have raised alarms about what...

West Virginia developer Ron Foster has asked a federal appeals court to require a district court to apply a new jurisdictional test laid out in the Supreme Court case Sackett v. EPA. Foster has been fighting the U.S. Environmental...

The Trump administration tells a federal court that two biofuels groups that sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for missing Renewable Fuel Standard deadlines on the 2026 volumes...

The U.S. Supreme Court entertained oral arguments in a case that could determine in what venue legal challenges to small-refinery exemptions to the Renewable Fuel Standard should be heard.

A jury in Cobb County, Georgia, awarded $2.065 billion in compensation and damages to a cancer patient who alleged his use of Roundup led to their non-Hodgkin's lymphoma diagnosis.

A federal judge ruled a lawsuit alleging securities fraud against Archer Daniels Midland would continue as the court denied four motions to dismiss the case last week.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is launching a second public-comment period on a proposal to list the monarch butterfly as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.

A new report by the University of Nebraska's Clayton Yeutter Institute of International Trade and Finance said the 10% tariff placed on all Chinese imports to the U.S. represents a broadening of the 2018 trade war.

Four years after a federal court awarded more than $10 million in damages to three farms for repeated flooding in the Missouri River basin, they continue to seek payment of those damages.

The Canadian government launched a dumping investigation into renewable diesel produced in the U.S. after Canada's only renewable diesel producer filed a complaint at the end of 2024.

A new report by the University of Nebraska's Clayton Yeutter Institute of International Trade and Finance said the 10% tariff placed on all Chinese imports to the U.S. represents a broadening of the 2018 trade war.

A federal judge ordered John Deere to provide certain communications it had with trade associations as it relates to the right-to-repair issue, as part of an ongoing discovery process in an antitrust lawsuit filed by farmers.

President Donald Trump touted work completed in his first 43 days in office, citing the reignition of energy production and reversing the "flagrant waste of taxpayer dollars" through the creation of the Department of Government...

The Chinese government announced retaliatory tariffs on U.S. agriculture products on Tuesday, in addition to suspending soybean export licenses of three U.S. agriculture companies in response...

The Trump administration announced on Friday it has given Ohio and South Dakota an extra year to implement year-round permanent E15 sales.

A Michigan farmer who pleaded guilty to theft of public money as a result of a federal investigation, is sentenced to supervised release.

Lawsuits challenging a tailpipe emissions rule that has been referred to as an electric-vehicle mandate by the Trump administration and others, have been put on hold in a federal appeals...

A Russian-based attorney who is representing the families of victims in the Jan. 30, 2025, crash of American Eagle flight 5342 and a Blackhawk helicopter uncovered and reported fraudulent GoFundMe campaign for crash victims Kiowa...

As Congress considers a new budget bill in the coming weeks, Rep. Randy Feenstra, R-Iowa, told an ethanol industry audience at the National Ethanol Conference in Nashville, Tennessee, this week that he is hoping to include funding...

The head of the Renewable Fuels Association told an audience of ethanol producers at the National Ethanol Conference in Nashville on Tuesday that the Trump administration can take steps to help improve an ailing farm economy.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced legislation on Thursday that would clear the way for permanent, year-round sales of E15 across the country.

Springport, Michigan, farmer Gaylord Lincoln asked a federal court to sentence him to probation after pleading guilty to one count of theft of public money, pointing to ongoing health concerns and remorse for the crime as a...

The National Farmers Union, R-CALF USA and cattle producers reached a $83.5 million settlement with JBS in an ongoing class-action lawsuit that alleged price fixing among ag companies.