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EPA Publishes New WOTUS Rule

As anticipated, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today published a new regulation clarifying the Clean Water Act’s Waters of the United States (WOTUS). As anticipated, the definition keeps the long-standing exclusions for farming, but it reduces the exception for previously converted cropland that was included in the Navigable Waters Protection Rule of the Trump administration.

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South Dakota Posts Improved Wheat Yield

Chad Henderson of XtremeAg’s Alabama wheat crop is off to a strong start, but Lee Lubbers is worried about emergence in South Dakota’s parched landscape.In Madison, Alabama, Chad Henderson works as a fifth generation farmer. Henderson Farms cultivates dryland and irrigated corn, dryland soybeans, wheat, and double-crop dryland and irrigated soybeans on more than 8,000

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Growth in frequency of dry, hot, and windy conditions harm farm growth

Over the previous 40 years, Kansas and five other Great Plains states’ wheat yields were reduced by 4% due to the combined effects of unfavourable dry, hot, and windy climate patterns, according to research from Kansas State University published in the scholarly journal Nature Communications. The study, according to agricultural climatology professor Xiaomao Lin, was

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US administration defines upstream reach of clean water laws

The Biden administration recently unveiled a new water pollution rule that will protect Americans’ access to safe drinking water, while supporting agricultural and local economies. The rule seeks to restore the reach of the Clean Water Act to its intended scope, covering territorial seas, interstate waters, and upstream water resources that significantly affect those waters.

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U.S. refuses Mexico claim of accord on GMO corn

The Biden administration is studying potential resolutions to the growing dispute over GMO corn exports between the United States and Mexico. On Wednesday, officials from the Biden administration refused to offer any further details other than they were studying potential resolutions. However, Mexico’s agriculture minister Victor Villalobos said that an informal agreement had already been

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