Todd Neeley

Iowa Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds on Tuesday signed a bill into law that will expand E15 availability to 70% of stations by 2024.

The National Milk Producers Federation and the U.S. Dairy Export Council called on the U.S. government to issue retaliatory tariffs against Canada after its government declined to make changes to its tariff-rate quota system. A...

A federal grand jury indicted Didion Milling Inc. and six former employees in connection to a 2017 explosion at a plant in Cambria, Wisconsin, that killed five employees and injured 12 others.

The sentencing of former Washington state rancher Cody Allen Easterday has been delayed until Aug. 10, as a related Chapter 11 bankruptcy case nears an end. Easterday plead guilty to wire fraud charges in connection with a...

The U.S. solicitor general said the Supreme Court should reject one of two petitions filed with the court by Bayer AG, asking for review of a trial verdict in a Roundup cancer case.

A small refinery company based in Louisiana has sued the EPA on its decision to retroactively deny 2018 small-refinery exemptions to the Renewable Fuel Standard.

After an uproar from agricultural groups, the Securities Exchange Commission on Monday extended the public-comment period on a proposed climate reporting rule from May 20 to June 17.

An Iowa dairy farmer and an engineering professor at the University of Iowa said on Monday that voluntary nutrients reduction programs are not working in reducing water pollution, telling the EPA during a WOTUS roundtable that it...

Although questions linger about the future of farming in Ukraine, the chief financial officer of a U.S. seed company said on Thursday that farmers in the region are expecting to plant most of the spring crop.

Archer Daniels Midland was ordered by a federal court on Tuesday to turn over information in connection with the 2019 suspension of an accounting employee, in an ongoing ethanol markets case.

Washington, D.C.-based Up Top Acres grows produce and flowers atop commercial buildings in 18 locations. The company donates the produce and helps building owners control stormwater runoff into the Chesapeake Bay.

The House Agriculture Committee questioned the CEOs of the four major meatpacking companies during a five-hour hearing on Wednesday, April 27, one day after the Senate Agriculture Committee explored the issue.

A South Dakota ethanol company is asking the state's congressional delegation to press EPA to look at the viability of E30 and work toward allowing the fuel to be sold nationally.

The EPA on Friday granted an emergency waiver to allow E15 sales to continue through this summer.

Governors from eight Midwestern states formally asked EPA Administrator Michael Regan to begin a rulemaking that would eliminate the summer fuel waiver and put E10 and E15 on equal regulatory ground. The move would allow permanent...

Agriculture groups are expressing concern farmers and ranchers would be required to report personal information and business-related data as part of a U.S. Securities Exchange Commission proposed rule.

EPA Agriculture Adviser Rod Snyder said this week the agency plans to release a proposed rewrite of the definition of waters of the U.S. yet this year despite an ongoing wetlands Supreme...

Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts told landowners and local politicians from around the country that they need to remain vigilant as the Biden administration implements plans to conserve 30% of land and water across the country by 2030.

With oral arguments likely to take place in October or November, hundreds of interested parties have filed amicus briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court in support of Idaho couple Michael and...

Attorneys general from 16 states asked President Joe Biden to reinstate the Keystone XL pipeline project to help alleviate oil-supply concerns.

The Biden administration on Tuesday finalized phase-one changes to the National Environmental Policy Act, raising concerns among agriculture interest groups the changes will return to longer environmental reviews for key projects.

Following a lawsuit filed by Bayer AG in March alleging Mead, Nebraska, ethanol plant owner AltEn LLC violated agreements with Bayer to provide pesticide-treated seed to produce biofuel, a federal judge Monday consolidated all...

While Bayer AG continues to wait for a decision from the U.S. Supreme Court on a petition to consider the verdict of a previous Roundup trial, the company has filed a petition on a second...

Archer Daniels Midland announced a $300 million expansion of its alternative protein plant in Decatur, Illinois, as well as the launching of a new protein innovation center also in Decatur.

With Brazilian beef imports into the U.S. recording a 131% increase in 2021, the National Cattlemen's Beef Association this week renewed its call for the USDA to stop fresh beef imports.

The USDA and South Dakota farmer Arlen Foster continue to battle over a Natural Resources Conservation Service determination that a small section of ground owned by Foster is a wetland. Foster presented new evidence to USDA...

The Nebraska Legislature on Thursday began consideration of LB 543, a bill that would have required equipment companies to provide all necessary diagnostic tools to farmers and independent repair shops to repair agriculture...

EPA calls for expanded cooperation with agriculture and for more so-called pollution diets, or total maximum daily loads, to address nutrient pollution from farms.

Minnesota farmer Kevan Jon Nelson was sentenced to supervised release and ordered to continue paying restitution after pleading guilty to crop insurance fraud.

A consultant to the National Pork Board outlined how farmers from around the globe are faring in a world rocked by the war in Ukraine.

The head of ClearFlame Engine Technologies said his company's ethanol diesel technology will get a trial run with John Deere in agriculture equipment pilot this year. In addition, the company is exploring viability of using the same...

The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether California's Proposition 12 violates the constitution by regulating commerce in other states.

Colorado-based Gevo Inc. tells Nebraska ethanol producers and farmers that sustainable aviation fuel production offers an economic opportunity for rural America but needs help from the ethanol industry to make it happen.

Bates County, Missouri, farmer Jared Wilson estimates he's lost at least a couple of months' worth of work time on his 4,000-acre farm by having to wait for a technician to help make repairs on broken equipment.

EPA Agriculture Adviser Rod Snyder told ethanol producers and farmers in Nebraska on Thursday that the agency is working to restore year-round E15 sales.

The Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit against EPA on Tuesday, alleging the agency did not complete an Endangered Species Act consultation when setting water-quality criteria for the heavy metal cadmium, a key...

A federal judge in Nebraska granted Archer Daniels Midland's motion to move an ongoing ethanol markets lawsuit to a district court in Illinois.

A federal judge in Iowa struck down the state's 2019 ag-gag law, saying in a ruling this week it violates the Constitution. The state still has two other ag-trespass laws on the books.

More than 1,000 U.S. farmers and other biofuel supporters signed a letter asking President Joe Biden to turn to expanded biofuels production and to make E15 available year-round to address rising pump prices.

The Environmental Integrity Project is calling for the elimination of agriculture exemptions from the Clean Water Act as one solution to improving impaired waters.

A new University of Nebraska-Lincoln survey shows agriculture land values in the state increased by 16% on average compared to 2021.

Warsaw, Indiana-based Silveus Insurance Group Inc. reached a $500,000 settlement with the U.S. attorney's office in western Michigan in connection with an ongoing crop insurance fraud case involving a Michigan farmer.

Minnesota farmer Kevan Jon Nelson asked a federal court to sentence him to probation following a guilty plea in a crop insurance fraud case.

New legislation offered by Iowa Republican Sens. Charles Grassley and Joni Ernst would expand the use of E15 after the Biden administration banned Russian oil and gas imports.

As the number of class-action lawsuits filed against John Deere continue to grow, a number of agriculture interest groups asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the company's right-to-repair practices.

Six more class-action lawsuits have been filed against John Deere, including two new cases in Illinois and one each in Alabama, Tennessee and Oklahoma.

The House Ag Committee on Tuesday listened to commodity groups talk about the ins and outs of 2018 farm bill programs and how rising input costs affect the 2023 farm bill.

In two separate petitions filed Monday, corn and soybean associations from a number of states asked a federal appeals court to set aside EPA's GHG emissions standards rule for 2023 and Later Model Year Light-Duty Vehicle...

A federal court granted former eastern Washington rancher Cody Easterday a delay in the lawsuit filed against him by the Commodity Futures Trading Corp.

The top biofuels mergers and acquisition advisory company in the U.S. reports the ethanol industry picked up activity in 2021, while a number of companies announced plans to build or expand renewable diesel production. That shift...

The vice president of International Raw Materials LTD points to countervailing duties slapped on fertilizer imports into the U.S. as a driver of higher fertilizer prices.

U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai said during USDA's Ag Outlook Forum on Friday that the Biden administration is trying to hold China accountable on trade.

Several seed companies voluntarily cleaning up the site of an abandoned ethanol plant in Nebraska, have asked a federal court to stop the company from its continued sale of assets and require it to pay for the cleanup.

Growth Energy and EPA reached a settlement agreement on a number of pending Renewable Fuel Standard lawsuits.

The Supreme Court rejected a petition filed by Dakota Access LLC on the status of its pipeline. The court has not issued rulings on petitions filed by the National Pork Producers Council regarding California's Proposition 12 and...

One day after U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack raised questions about price increases in farm inputs, the U.S. Department of Justice announced an initiative to step up investigative efforts on price collusion.

A new analysis by University of Illinois agriculture economist Scott Irwin shows the soybean oil-based biodiesel industry margins spent all but four weeks of 2021 in the red.