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Biofuels groups filed public comments in response to California's proposed amendments to the low-carbon fuel standard.
Summit Carbon Solutions was granted a construction permit by the Iowa Utilities Commission to build a 688-mile stretch of the company's proposed...
An Iowa-based agricultural solutions company is partnering with an insurance company to provide a health coverage option for farmers across the...
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DTN Environmental Editor Todd Neeley is a lifelong resident of Lincoln, Nebraska, and a 1994 graduate of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he earned a bachelor's degree in news editorial.
Neeley worked as a reporter and photographer with the weekly newspaper The Milford Times in southeast Nebraska until 2002. He then went to work as the government reporter for The Hastings Tribune in central Nebraska, where he covered the Nebraska Legislature and city and county government. Neeley was hired as a staff reporter at DTN in August 2004, where he has worked on numerous in-depth reporting projects, covered the ethanol and crop insurance beats. He is now an environmental reporter for DTN, covering Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, the Endangered Species Act and other issues important to farmers.
During his 18-year career, Neeley has earned more than 50 state and national awards for reporting and writing. In 2010 he was a Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Award finalist for a series of stories on ethanol and oil subsidies.
Biofuels groups filed public comments in response to California's proposed amendments to the low-carbon fuel standard.
Biofuels interests groups submitted comments to the USDA outlining ways to make it more practical for farmers to take advantage of the 45Z Clean Fuels Production Credit.
Summit Carbon Solutions was granted a construction permit by the Iowa Utilities Commission to build a 688-mile stretch of the company's proposed carbon dioxide pipeline that would run through...
The USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service releases new guidelines on meat and poultry labels that make environmental or animal-raised claims after a test finds antibiotics in such livestock.
Ethanol interest group Growth Energy told the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan the group intends to file a lawsuit if the agency does not release a 2026 Renewable Fuel Standard volumes proposal.
The state of Iowa announced Tuesday that farmers will continue to pay an indemnity fee on all grain sales for at least one more year as officials look to rebuild the indemnity fund.
The South Dakota Supreme Court on Thursday ruled Summit Carbon Solutions has yet to prove it is a common carrier under state law to allow the company to launch eminent domain proceedings.
A federal appeals court this week rejected a Nebraska farmer's appeal to reduce $5.1 million in restitution after pleading guilty to one count of bank fraud.
Maumee, Ohio-based The Andersons announced Bill Krueger, the company's current chief operating officer, will take over as president and CEO effective Oct. 1, 2024.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is investigating where biofuel producers source waste cooking oil to produce biodiesel and other fuels, as part of what the agency says is now a routine audit in the Renewable Fuel Standard.
DG Fuels, based in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday announced plans to build a new sustainable aviation fuel plant in Nebraska with plans to launch production in 2030.
State attorneys general from 11 states have asked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to declare any state label requirements for glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, to be unlawful if inconsistent with agency...
A bipartisan group of 20 federal lawmakers asked the U.S. Department of Commerce this week to consider how potential duties on 2,4-D imports from China and India could affect U.S. farmers.
The Michigan Supreme Court last week sided with the state of Michigan in an ongoing legal dispute with agriculture on how it is regulating concentrated animal feeding operations.
The average prices of all eight fertilizers tracked by DTN continued their downward trend in the first week of August 2024, although none of them recorded a significant drop.
A Mount Airy, North Carolina, man entered a guilty plea in federal court last week to his role in a cattle-theft conspiracy that spanned four years and involved at least 3,000 head of cattle.
National Beef Packing Company has reached a settlement in an ongoing lawsuit that alleges food companies fixed wages. Seven companies have yet to file motions to dismiss or announce settlements.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday vacated the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's denial of previously granted small-refinery exemptions to the Renewable Fuel Standard.
Agricultural industry officials told the House Agriculture Committee on Tuesday that the industry needs a strong farm bill and possibly even more economic aid as economic headwinds continue to blow across rural America.
A Kansas man faces up to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to wire fraud in connection with a scheme to defraud ranchers during the 2021 drought.
A federal court in Massachusetts ruled Monday that the state's law banning the sale of pork meat that doesn't meet sow housing requirements is not preempted by federal law, allowing the law to stand.
The American Farm Bureau Federation, American Soybean Association, National Corn Growers Association and the National Farmers Union want to see guidance on the 45Z Clean Fuel Production tax credit include a domestic-feedstocks...
Michigan farmer Gaylord Lincoln asked a federal court this week to dismiss wire and mail fraud charges against him after a grand jury indicted Lincoln in connection with a federal crop insurance and farm benefits fraud investigation.
CF Industries and Poet LLC announced plans to study how low-carbon ammonia applied to fields by farmers who supply grain to ethanol plants can reduce carbon emissions.
A survey of 1,045 farmers by researchers at the University of Georgia found a connection between high stress levels in farming and binge drinking.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a change to when the agency analyzes the effects of pesticide spray drift in hopes of protecting more farmworkers.
Agriculture groups asked a federal court to throw out a conservation rule finalized in May by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management that may exclude ranchers from grazing public lands.
Citing rising construction costs, Archer Daniels Midland and LG Chem canceled plans to build a new corn-based polylactic acid plant in Decatur, Illinois.
The House Agriculture Committee got an earful from farmers and other agriculture industry officials during a hearing in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, who told representatives they need to see more engagement with the U.S...
The White House released a unified agenda for all federal agencies that includes what would be a one-year delay in finalizing Renewable Fuel Standard volumes for 2026.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency asked a federal court to issue an injunction against several dairies in southern Washington state, requiring them to take steps to protect drinking water from nitrate pollution.
A group of eight scientists told a federal appeals court last week that claims made in a lawsuit by the Center for Biological Diversity that the Renewable Fuel Standard led to the conversion of previously unfarmed grasslands to...
The Supreme Court's decision Monday in Corner Post Inc. v. Federal Reserve has the potential to expand the number of lawsuits filed against federal agencies overall, including lawsuits challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection...
A group of 157 Republican members of Congress on Tuesday asked EPA Administrator Michael Regan to withdraw a final heavy-duty truck emissions rule that mandates electric trucks.
South Dakota farmer Arlen Foster will have his legal challenge of a USDA wetlands determination reheard by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
A limited number of farmers and ranchers are expected to be affected directly by the Supreme Court's action that overturned a long-held legal doctrine called Chevron deference.
The Supreme Court on Friday threw out the so-called Chevron deference doctrine on a 6-3 vote, clearing the way for farmers such as South Dakota producer Arlen Foster to challenge federal agency decisions.
A federal court in Idaho denied a motion filed by J.R. Simplot to dismiss a lawsuit claiming the company's Grand View, Idaho, feedlot has been illegally discharging pollution since 2012.
The Iowa Utilities Board on Tuesday approved Summit Carbon Solutions' proposal to build a 688-mile stretch of a 1,250-mile carbon pipeline in Iowa. The decision also grants authority to use eminent domain.
Clean Fuels Alliance America is petitioning the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to make significant increases in 2024 and 2025 volumes for biomass-based diesel and advanced biofuels.
Seed companies involved in the environmental cleanup of a now-defunct ethanol plant in Mead, Nebraska, have restarted operations to remove wet cake waste from the site.
A Monona, Iowa, farmer who pleaded guilty in connection with livestock theft and wire fraud, was fined by the state of Iowa for an environmental violation on his feedlot.
Agriculture interest groups filed a brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, defending the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's regulation of concentrated animal feeding operations.
A federal court in Michigan has moved the trial date from June to September in a case alleging Springport, Michigan, farmer Gaylord Lincoln committed crop insurance and farm benefits fraud.
The Andersons, Inc., one of the largest grain companies in the U.S., announced its intent to explore a potential purchase of Ulysses, Kansas-based Skyland Grain, LLC.
Farmers and biofuels producers across the country begin to take stock in farm practices as they wait for the IRS to release guidance on the 45Z Clean Fuel Production Credit.
Following a warning issued to John Deere by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the company has made a new addition to owner's manuals on its equipment that allows independent repair shops to make repairs to emissions systems.
China has banned beef exports from a JBS Swift Beef Company plant in Greeley, Colorado, after traces of the feed additive ractopamine was found in meat bound for China.