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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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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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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,”

Policy

16 minutes ago

Big Dairy Gets Bigger

The U.S. dairy sector is producing more milk with fewer farms, which is efficient, impressive and a little emotionally rude to anyone who still pictures every dairy as a red barn with one cow named Bessie. Udder math: Large-scale dairy farms are reshaping the industry because bigger herds can spread overhead across more hundredweights of milk. That can help manage costs and volatility, but it also changes how quickly the national milk supply responds when prices move. By the

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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

Livestock

15 minutes ago

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,”

Policy

16 minutes ago

Big Dairy Gets Bigger

The U.S. dairy sector is producing more milk with fewer farms, which is efficient, impressive and a little emotionally rude to anyone who still pictures every dairy as a red barn with one cow named Bessie. Udder math: Large-scale dairy farms are reshaping the industry because bigger herds can spread overhead across more hundredweights of milk. That can help manage costs and volatility, but it also changes how quickly the national milk supply responds when prices move. By the

Livestock

18 minutes ago

Potash Gets Political

The U.S.-Canada trade fight is drifting from border drama into fertilizer anxiety, because apparently crop planning was not already enough of a trust fall with weather, input prices and machinery that beeps only when it wants money. Border nutrients: Canada’s retaliation list includes dairy products and agricultural equipment, and the bigger worry is that the fight could expand toward potash. The U.S. imports more than 80% of its potassium from the Elk Point Basin in Saskatch

Farming

4 days ago

USDA Data Enters the Group Chat

USDA is trying to modernize agricultural data collection, which means the agency has entered the “maybe the spreadsheet should not be held together with duct tape and hope” phase of government technology. Data detox: The new plan aims to reduce repeated producer questions, improve accuracy and make agricultural statistics more useful. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins unveiled it at Farm Progress Show after farmer frustration over report reliability got loud enough to ratt

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4 days ago

Beef Grades Get a Gut Check

The federal beef yield grade system is having a midlife crisis, except it is 60 years old and still grading carcasses like the cattle never discovered feed efficiency, bigger frames or the modern urge to become a couch with hooves. The wrinkle: Feeders are sending increasingly fatter cattle to slaughter after longer days on feed, chasing pounds in a market where beef still has more pricing power than a county fair lemonade stand. Dale Woerner, Texas Tech University meat scien

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5 days ago

USDA Service Gets Put on Hold

Farmers can handle paperwork. They would just prefer the paperwork come with a human on the other end of the counter. Office hours: Staffing losses across USDA are making basic services harder to reach in parts of farm country, from loans and grants to conservation technical help. In one reported example, New Mexico farmers Mary and Zachariah Ben waited months for a USDA loan tied to a 47-acre expansion. Private financing helped fill the gap, which is a polite way of saying t

Farming

7 days ago

EPA Hands Refiners a Biofuel Hall Pass

The rumor mill became a rulemaking mill, and corn country is once again standing near the blender with one eyebrow raised. Waiver math: EPA announced decisions on 34 small refinery exemption petitions for 2025 Renewable Fuel Standard obligations. The agency granted 18 full exemptions, 11 partial exemptions, denied three and found two ineligible. That is not a tiny paperwork shuffle. It is a stack of fuel policy receipts big enough to make ethanol plants start stress-chewing c

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WOTUS Gets Another Muddy Rewrite

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USDA Service Gets Put on Hold

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