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For many Missouri cattle producers, a drought this summer has limited the amount of forage that is available to their herds. The dry conditions have forced some into feeding hay already and has many cattle producers scrambling to find alternative...

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Along with a poorer economic situation, the Federal Reserve's Tenth District also reported credit conditions for farmers are deteriorating, and bankers are also seeing a modest rise in problems with loan repayment. That's also translating to a small...

State officials in Kansas and Colorado have struck a deal to end the latest battle in the Republican River Basin.

Tax reform may have alleviated one of the challenges in estate planning, but experts warn there are plenty of non-tax reasons why a formal farm transition plan will smooth the handoff to the next generation.

EPA Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler on Wednesday pledged to provide transparency on Renewable Fuel Standard waivers and to consider refining interests in implementing the law.

Fuel ethanol production in the United States reached more than 16 billion gallons per year, or 1.06 million barrels per day (bpd), at the beginning of 2018, according to EIA data.

Legal briefs were filed last week in a federal court in Washington, D.C., in a lawsuit against the EPA over how it implemented Renewable Fuel Standard volumes in 2018.

One of two lawsuits challenging the EPA's granting of small refinery waivers is being allowed to proceed.

Those funky fingers called brace roots are being called into question. Do they really help stabilize the corn plant or are they a burden?

A House subcommittee continued to examine the market for Renewable Identification Numbers, or RINs, during a hearing on Wednesday.

Domestic ethanol stocks were down for a second straight week during the week-ended July 20 as a draw at the Gulf Coast negated builds in the other regions, Energy Information Administration data released Wednesday, July 25, showed.

The National Sorghum Producers pushed for more than two years to get sorghum oil as part of the Renewable Fuel Standard. EPA initially proposed the rule last December, noting in its proposed assessment that, as a biodiesel product, distillers sorghum...

As drought worsens in the south and west, parts of the Midwest are recovering from record rainfalls. But a lucky few are looking at ideal growing conditions.

There was a better-than-9% drop in the number of D4 biomass-based diesel renewable identification numbers (RINs) generated in June from May.

Although the EPA made it clear it wasn't asking for testimony on the agency's small refinery waiver program in the Renewable Fuel Standard, farmers and biofuels producers called for changes anyway during a public hearing in Michigan on Wednesday.

Farmers are caught in the middle of a multi-front trade war, and bankers worry damage to farm incomes could put a dent in farmland values, especially as the Federal Reserve moves forward with higher interest rates.

Iowa senators and representatives told EPA Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler he has "an important job" in implementing the Renewable Fuel Standard.

A lack of rain in east-central Kansas and north-central Missouri, has led to crops withering in the field, leaving livestock with little to eat or drink.

The latest EPA documents released on proposed Renewable Fuel Standard volumes show the agency planned to reallocate biofuel gallons lost to waivers following a meeting between former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture...

In its latest Short-term Energy Outlook, the Energy Information Administration forecast ethanol production this year and next to average 1.0 million barrels per day (bpd), on par with 2017.

Summer field days give a first-hand look at what the soil health movement is about.

Declining corn prices during the past couple of months have helped ethanol plant margins improve.