With an August deadline looming, EPA released an update this week to its draft Herbicide Strategy. It describes improvements the agency said will increase flexibility and ease of implementation while still protecting threatened and endangered species.
The U.S. International Trade Commission is considering a petition filed by Corteva Agriscience LLC to impose antidumping and countervailing duties on Indian and Chinese imports of the herbicide 2,4-D.
Cattle producers and others are upset after the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) announced earlier this week that the agency would drop three reports over the next year over budget issues, including the midyear cattle inventory report.
CHS Inc. and Cargill signed an agreement on Tuesday for CHS to buy eight grain facilities in five states. The financial terms of the agreement were not provided.
