Your browser does not support the audio tag.WASHINGTON (NAFB) - Freshly passed, tax break extensions for farm equipment and livestock run out again, at midnight Wednesday. It's the result of very late action by Congress this year.The 113th Congress was almost the...
Your browser does not support the audio tag.WASHINGTON - In late December, President Obama retroactively extended the federal biodiesel tax credit into 2014, along with roughly 50 other expired tax breaks, collectively referred to as "tax extenders.""We were hoping...
Your browser does not support the audio tag.WASHINGTON - Back in 2007, Congress approved the Energy Independence and Security Act, which expanded the Renewable Fuel Standard.Today, Renewable Fuels Association President and CEO Bob Dinneen says ethanol production has...
Your browser does not support the audio tag.AMES, Iowa - In what is something of a Christmas present to most cattle producers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Secretary Tom Vilsack has decided against the creation of a second beef checkoff.Over the last three...
Your browser does not support the audio tag.FLANDREAU, S.D. - Big changes are rapidly approaching the U.S. egg industry after the first of the year.Beginning on January 1, any egg sold in California will be under stricter production standards with regard to space for...
Your browser does not support the audio tag.DES MOINES, Iowa - On Monday, Swiss biotech company Syngenta announced it received the safety certificate for its Agrisure Viptera trait from Chinese regulatory authorities. The move formally grants import approval to...
Your browser does not support the audio tag.DES MOINES, Iowa - On Monday state officials confirmed the presence of emerald ash borer in five southern Iowa counties: Appanoose, Lucas, Mahaska, Marion and Monroe.In all, 18 Iowa counties are infested with the half-inch...
Your browser does not support the audio tag.SYCAMORE, Il. - Since last December China's ports have remained closed to American corn, a restriction that has also bled over into the market for distiller's dried grains, a ethanol byproduct used as a feed additive. In...
Your browser does not support the audio tag.DES MOINES, Iowa - There was no shortage of Christmas gift ideas at the Winter Farmers' Market in Downtown Des Moines last Friday and Saturday.There was an abundance of Iowa-grown produce, even this late into the year. It's...
Your browser does not support the audio tag.ADEL, Iowa - In mid-December you may think a lot of fieldwork has wrapped up. That might be true in a more typical year with more snow cover, and although forecasts this week are below freezing statewide, one central Iowa...
