Todd Neeley

Engineers working on behalf of a number of seed companies in the environmental cleanup of a shuttered Nebraska ethanol plant explore the possibility of moving 115,000 tons of old wet distillers grains to area landfills.

The Supreme Court May 26 ruling in Sackett v EPA may require the Biden administration to withdraw its current waters of the U.S. rule and to conduct a rewrite.

A federal judge vacated a number of Bureau of Land Management permits approved for Bayer AG's development of a phosphate mine in southeast Idaho. Bayer said the action does not affect current supplies of the nutrient used to...

A new bill signed into law by Iowa's governor moves the effective date of reinstating grain indemnity fees from July 1 to Sept. 1.

Two environmental groups filed a federal lawsuit in California on Wednesday, asking the court to direct EPA to regulate seeds treated with pesticides.

Former eastern Washington rancher Cody Allen Easterday agrees to permanent trading ban and will pay a $1 million fine to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission as part of a consent decree signed last week.

Adam Clifford Olson, owner and operator of Olson Seed LLC in Windom, Minnesota, changed his plea to guilty on one count of providing false information to the Federal Crop Insurance Corp. as part of a $46 million organic-crops scheme.

The Supreme Court ruled the EPA went too far in the use of the significant-nexus test in making a Clean Water Act wetlands determination on an Idaho couple's land. The court's ruling suggests a new "continuous surface" test.

The EPA on Tuesday asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans to review a Texas court's injunction against the waters of the U.S. rule in Texas and Idaho.

Three Florida men accepted plea agreements in connection with multiple frozen-meat thefts at packing plants across the Midwest in 2022.

The American Farm Bureau Federation announced two new right-to-repair memorandums of understanding on Monday with Kubota Tractor Corp. and AGCO.

The EPA granted authorization to Corteva Agriscience and Adama US to begin receiving returned shipments of chlorpyrifos insecticide products sold by the companies, following the agency revocation of chlorpyrifos' registration.

Minnesota regulators asked a federal court to dismiss a Minnesota Soybean Growers Association lawsuit that challenges the state's adoption of California's electric-vehicle mandate.

J.R. Simplot was sued by environmentalists for discharging manure into the Snake River from the company's Grand View, Idaho, feedlot. The lawsuit filed in a federal court in Idaho alleges the 150,000-head feedlot has not had a permit...

A national crackdown on diesel emissions tampering raises questions about how the effort affects the agriculture equipment right-to-repair movement.

U.S. pork industry officials said Friday the Supreme Court's decision to hold up California's Proposition 12 came at a time when farmers are struggling to stay afloat.

A federal appeals court ruled South Dakota farmer Arlen Foster did not follow USDA regulations in seeking a review of a wetlands determination made on a three-tenths-of-acre of land.

Cottonwood County, Minnesota, farmer James Clayton Wolf changed his plea to guilty on Friday, in connection with an organic crops conspiracy case.

California's animal-welfare law Proposition 12 will stand after the Supreme Court on Thursday ruled 5-4 against U.S. pork producers in a case that will have broad effects on the industry.

J.R. Simplot was sued by environmentalists for discharging manure into the Snake River from the company's Grand View, Idaho, feedlot. The lawsuit filed in a federal court in Idaho alleges the 150,000-head feedlot has not had a permit...

One of two farmers indicted in an alleged organics crops conspiracy was told by a federal court this week that he will not have 12 pieces of equipment seized by the government returned to him for this planting season.

The Center for Biological Diversity told a federal court in a lawsuit that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has not responded to a four-year-old petition asking the agency to restrict pesticides use in critical habitats.

An Iowa district judge Wednesday ruled it was unconstitutional for pipeline companies to enter private land to survey without compensating landowners.

One of two men indicted for allegedly committing organic crop fraud, asked a federal court to return his equipment confiscated by prosecutors so that he can farm in 2023.

As water levels continue to decline in the Colorado River basin, farmers -- particularly in Arizona -- are facing increasing scrutiny about their crop choices. This includes Saudi-owned alfalfa farms that shipped the feed to dairies...

The Biden administration granted a last-minute waiver Friday to allow E15 sales to continue across the country this summer. Terminals faced a May 1 deadline to be able to continue to sell the fuel come June 1.

The state of Iowa will begin charging farmers a quarter-cent fee on grain sales to licensed warehouses for the first time in 34 years, after recent warehouse failures draw down on the grain indemnity fund.

A group of Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee questioned whether the EPA can expand the Renewable Fuel Standard to benefit electric vehicle producers.

A committee in the Missouri House of Representatives voted against HB1169 this week, effectively ending the chances of the so-called gene-therapy bill passing during the current session.

The EPA reached a settlement with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation this week that will require the agency to crack down on nutrient runoff on farms in seven Pennsylvania counties.

EPA Administrator Michael Regan told the House Committee on Agriculture on Wednesday that the agency is following science in conducting an Endangered Species Act review of agriculture chemicals.

Though the social media world has erupted in concern about the use of messenger RNA, or mRNA-based vaccines in livestock and its implications for people, mRNA technology currently is not available to the livestock industry.

After a number of stays in an ongoing lawsuit against the EPA on its handling of registrations for dicamba, a federal court in Arizona has been asked to vacate registrations on dicamba products.

Here are the six factors expected to drive the food-consumption trends internationally in the next few years.

How much beef and other types of meat will people be consuming in the future? Expect more chicken on the dinner plate, especially in developing countries.

Colorado lawmakers on Tuesday passed a bill that requires equipment manufacturers to provide all the tools necessary for farmers and independent equipment repair shops to repair combines, tractors and other equipment.

A federal judge in North Dakota granted a preliminary injunction against the waters of the U.S. rule in 24 states. The action means the rule is not being enforced in half the states.

As a result of what was one of the largest Renewable Fuel Standard tax credit conspiracies ever perpetrated, a federal court sentenced five people from Utah and California to combined 83 years in prison.

Minor County, South Dakota, farmer Arlen Foster wants a federal appeals court to help him receive a USDA review of a 2011 wetlands determination on ground that Foster says has been proven to not contain a wetland.

A federal court in Washington, D.C., has vacated a Farm Service Agency rule that exempted medium-sized concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, from having to face an environmental review to receive USDA loans.

Environmental groups hope EPA will tighten Clean Water Act regulations on concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, when the agency answers a petition filed by environmental groups in 2017.

A federal court in Kentucky dismissed the state's lawsuit challenging the new waters of the U.S. rule and denied a request for a preliminary injunction against the rule.

Expect more chicken on the dinner plate, especially in developing countries.

The EPA on Thursday completed its biological evaluation of the insecticide sulfoxaflor, finding the chemical causes no effect in 47% of Endangered Species Act-listed species.

Farm and other industry groups led by the American Farm Bureau Federation asked a federal court for a national injunction against WOTUS.

Emergency crews remain on the scene of a Burlington Northern Santa Fe ethanol train derailment and fire in Raymond, Minnesota, as federal and state officials make their way to the scene in southwest Minnesota.

Farm income in Nebraska is expected to rise modestly in 2023, according to a new report from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Center for Agricultural Profitability and the University of Missouri's Rural and Farm Finance Policy...

The Center for Biological Diversity said it intends to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service unless it acts to protect endangered and threatened species' habitats from pesticides.

EPA Administrator Michael Regan was grilled by Republican lawmakers on the waters of the U.S. rule on Tuesday during a 2024 budget request hearing.

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.

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.

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

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.