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Diesel Prices Put Harvest on Premium Fuel

The harvest season has found a new way to be expensive, because apparently equipment fuel heard crop margins were feeling lonely. Fuelish timing: Diesel prices are hitting record highs right as combines, tractors, semis and grain dryers are asking for their seasonal buffet. That is lovely news for exactly no one, unless your business model is selling fuel while farmers mutter into the steering wheel. How we got here: Crude oil jumped as war-related disruptions complicated tan

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Diesel Prices Put Harvest on Premium Fuel

The harvest season has found a new way to be expensive, because apparently equipment fuel heard crop margins were feeling lonely. Fuelish timing: Diesel prices are hitting record highs right as combines, tractors, semis and grain dryers are asking for their seasonal buffet. That is lovely news for exactly no one, unless your business model is selling fuel while farmers mutter into the steering wheel. How we got here: Crude oil jumped as war-related disruptions complicated tan

Farming

5 hours ago

SARE Funding Stuck in the Bureaucratic Mud

Farmer-led research is waiting on USDA paperwork, which is the least charming kind of cover crop. Funding fog: $48 million in Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education funding has not been released yet, and supporters are nervous because the clock runs out at the end of September. Nothing says “innovation” like watching a deadline walk toward you holding a clipboard. What it funds: SARE backs farmer-driven research, demonstrations and education, often on practical ideas

Farming

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Rural Loyalty Gets a Beefy Stress Test

Cattle country is not exactly breaking up with President Donald Trump, but some ranchers are checking the relationship status. Rural side-eye: Ranchers’ loyalty is being tested as beef import moves collide with years of rural political support. The frustration is not abstract. Producers finally seeing profitable cattle prices do not love watching Washington reach for imports as the consumer-facing fix. Shocking, we know. The beef with beef: Earlier plans to allow more tariff-

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Diesel Prices Put Harvest on Premium Fuel

The harvest season has found a new way to be expensive, because apparently equipment fuel heard crop margins were feeling lonely. Fuelish timing: Diesel prices are hitting record highs right as combines, tractors, semis and grain dryers are asking for their seasonal buffet. That is lovely news for exactly no one, unless your business model is selling fuel while farmers mutter into the steering wheel. How we got here: Crude oil jumped as war-related disruptions complicated tan

Farming

5 hours ago

SARE Funding Stuck in the Bureaucratic Mud

Farmer-led research is waiting on USDA paperwork, which is the least charming kind of cover crop. Funding fog: $48 million in Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education funding has not been released yet, and supporters are nervous because the clock runs out at the end of September. Nothing says “innovation” like watching a deadline walk toward you holding a clipboard. What it funds: SARE backs farmer-driven research, demonstrations and education, often on practical ideas

Farming

5 hours ago

Rural Loyalty Gets a Beefy Stress Test

Cattle country is not exactly breaking up with President Donald Trump, but some ranchers are checking the relationship status. Rural side-eye: Ranchers’ loyalty is being tested as beef import moves collide with years of rural political support. The frustration is not abstract. Producers finally seeing profitable cattle prices do not love watching Washington reach for imports as the consumer-facing fix. Shocking, we know. The beef with beef: Earlier plans to allow more tariff-

Policy

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Screwworm Defense Gets a Texas Lab Coat

New World screwworm is the kind of pest that makes “bug problem” sound wildly too polite. Bug bunker: Flyttr announced plans for a large-scale biosecurity research and countermeasure platform in San Antonio, with New World screwworm as the first target. The company says its FastFly platform is designed to move from design to testing to production faster than the usual pest-control timeline, which is nice because parasites are not famous for respecting committee schedules. Fir

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DEF Rules May Stop Throwing Tractor Tantrums

Dropping into limp mode is fine if you are a golden retriever after a long walk. It is less charming when the combine decides harvest is a great time for a mechanical fainting couch. Limp mode mood: Proposed diesel-emissions reforms would change how selective catalytic reduction systems respond when diesel exhaust fluid runs dry or the system glitches. Instead of progressively choking engine power, the proposal would replace severe derates and speed limits with persistent aud

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Fuel Credit Finally Reads the Field Notes

Clean-fuel tax math is finally wandering out to the field, where the spreadsheets immediately stepped in mud. Credit where it’s due: New 45Z guidance gives crop and livestock producers more detail on how farm practices can fit into the Clean Fuel Production Credit. The guidance covers manure-derived fuels and regenerative practices, which means lower-carbon fuel calculations are no longer just something happening in a refinery conference room with suspiciously tiny coffee cup

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Beef Orders Try to Calm the Cattle Pen

Washington is trying to rebuild the cattle herd, which is adorable because cows still insist on using biology instead of a policy memo. The steer-down: President Donald Trump signed two executive orders aimed at ranchers, small processors and meat-market competition. The package calls for more aggressive Packers and Stockyards Act enforcement, expanded interstate market access for eligible meat products, and a new guaranteed loan program for small and regional beef processors

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Sep 8

WOTUS Gets Another Muddy Rewrite

The federal government is once again asking, “What counts as water?” which feels like a question better suited for kindergarten until the answer determines permits, wetlands and farm projects. Back in the muck: EPA and the Army Corps issued a supplemental WOTUS proposal seeking additional input on how to define protected waters under the Clean Water Act. The agencies are specifically poking at terms like “relatively permanent,” “perennial” and “continuous surface connection,”

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SARE Funding Stuck in the Bureaucratic Mud

Rural Loyalty Gets a Beefy Stress Test

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