Todd Neeley

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 sometime this spring.

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 soybean crush plants would be in jeopardy...

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...

The arrest of a county judge in southwest Texas in May 2022 and a wide information gap to follow was DTN Staff Reporter Todd Neeley's favorite story of 2022.

A federal appeals court last week ordered the EPA to conduct an Endangered Species Act review of the insecticide sulfoxaflor, leaving in place the registration while the review continues.

Missouri Gov. Michael L. Parson filed an official request with the EPA last week to make a change to federal law for the state to allow permanent year-round E15 sales.

The Center for Food Safety filed a lawsuit this week asking a court to order EPA to follow a 1996 law that requires the agency to test and regulate pesticides and other chemicals for endocrine-disrupting properties.

DTN continues its countdown of the top 10 agriculture stories of 2022 with No. 8: It was a big year for Supreme Court cases that influence agriculture.

CHS Hedging LLC was ordered by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to pay a $6.5 million penalty for violations the company committed in not taking steps to prevent a multi-million-dollar...

Growth Energy CEO Emily Skor on Monday asked EPA Administrator Michael Regan to schedule an in-person public hearing in the Midwest on the agency's latest Renewable Fuel Standard proposal.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit heard oral arguments on Thursday in a case that could require the EPA to reconsider reinstating the safe uses of the insecticide chlorpyrifos.

As more soybean crushing plants come online to support increased oil demand by the renewable diesel industry, a CHS Inc. executive said during the DTN Ag Summit on Monday that farmers would...

The results of a new poll from the American Farm Bureau Federation found some encouraging signs when it comes to the battle against opioid addiction in rural America.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit entertained oral arguments last week in an ongoing legal challenge on EPA's label changes to dicamba.

The USDA last week filed a brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in St. Louis, Missouri, arguing to the court the department was not required to grant a review of a wetlands determination on South Dakota...

The White House Office of Management and Budget is reviewing nine petitions from states that have requested a change in federal law to allow them to sell E15 year-round permanently.

A packer sanitation company accused of violating child labor laws at packing plants across the country, reaches a settlement agreement with the U.S. Department of Labor.

The former owner/operator of a soybean-processing plant in Mississippi faces both federal and state charges in connection to an alleged scheme to defraud farmers, banks and the state of Mississippi.

The CEO of Minnesota-based Epitome Energy LLC has announced plans to move a 42-million-bushel soybean crush plant project from Minnesota to North Dakota, citing problems with Minnesota's...

A California judge extended a stay on the enforcement of the state's Proposition 12 animal-welfare law that took effect in January 2022.

EPA finalized a rule that allows for the use of canola and rapeseed oils to produce renewable diesel, jet fuel, heating oil, naphtha and liquefied petroleum gas, to qualify for Renewable Fuel Standard credits.

The biodiesel industry was disappointed by EPA's multi-year Renewable Fuel Standard proposal on Thursday, as industry officials say the proposed volumes don't match what the industry can produce.

EPA's multi-year Renewable Fuel Standard volume proposal would expand corn-based ethanol and biomass-based diesel volumes, while expanding overall biofuels blending by about 2 billion gallons by 2025.

A McDonald's lawsuit seeks a jury trial on allegations that a number of food companies conspired to fix pork prices. Although several restaurants settled with food companies as part of class-action lawsuits in the past year...

A bipartisan group of 15 U.S. senators introduced legislation on Tuesday that would allow year-round E15 sales nationally.

EPA has until September 2023 to complete an Endangered Species Act assessment and make changes to the labeling for the insecticide cyantraniliprole, according to a federal appeals court ruling on Tuesday.

With Congress just weeks away from the end of the lame-duck session, several agriculture, biofuels and petroleum interest groups ask leaders of the House and Senate to pass legislation to restore permanent year-round E15 sales.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration last week announced a California-based cultured animal-cell meat company completed a pre-marketing consultation, as USDA continues to develop a rule that will govern labels for such products.

The Center for Food Safety and a number of other food groups have asked a federal appeals court to review a lower court's ruling that upheld most of USDA's food labeling law for products containing ingredients from genetically...

Three employees of major meatpacking companies in the United States filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf of hundreds of thousands of workers, alleging the companies have violated antitrust laws in conspiring to keep their wages...

The public comment period closes Wednesday on a proposed consent decree that would penalize several poultry processors for the use of a so-called tournament system for farmers who supply them, as well as on an antitrust claim...

The EPA and the state of Ohio reached an agreement that will likely lead to the establishment of a so-called pollution diet to reduce phosphorous and other nutrient runoff into western Lake Erie.

Leaders of the biomass-based diesel industry said on Monday they want EPA to set Renewable Fuel Standard volumes high enough to match the industry's capabilities.

Archer Daniels Midland and two plaintiff companies in an ongoing ethanol markets lawsuit made a recommendation to the court to appoint a Michigan State University professor to examine the...

A U.S. Department of Labor investigation allegedly found 13-year-olds working for Packers Sanitation Services Inc. LTD on overnight shifts cleaning the JBS USA packing plants in Nebraska and Minnesota.

Farmers in two states filed class-action lawsuits alleging so-called loyalty programs run by Syngenta and Corteva block competitors from selling generic pesticides and other chemicals.

A grand jury in Miami, Florida, indicted three men who were arrested in October on allegations they stole frozen beef and pork from packing plants in several Midwest states.