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Rain Robbers Get Soaked

Some crop insurance fraud cases involve fuzzy paperwork. This one allegedly involved actual weather equipment getting the “oops, no rain here” treatment. The rain robbers story details how farmers in Colorado and Kansas manipulated precipitation gauges to make drought look worse and collect insurance payouts. Apparently, even raindrops need auditors. How it worked: Federal prosecutors said Patrick Esch, Colorado farmer, and Ed Dean Jagers, Colorado farmer, tampered with rain

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Rain Robbers Get Soaked

Some crop insurance fraud cases involve fuzzy paperwork. This one allegedly involved actual weather equipment getting the “oops, no rain here” treatment. The rain robbers story details how farmers in Colorado and Kansas manipulated precipitation gauges to make drought look worse and collect insurance payouts. Apparently, even raindrops need auditors. How it worked: Federal prosecutors said Patrick Esch, Colorado farmer, and Ed Dean Jagers, Colorado farmer, tampered with rain

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USDA Funds the Lab Glow-Up

USDA is sending a fresh coat of funding to agricultural research, and not the kind where a university building gets one new chair and a “please enjoy innovation” memo. U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins and U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon announced a $125 million annual investment for the Research Facilities Act program. Lab report: The program is aimed at the unglamorous stuff that makes discovery possible: better controlled environments, safer labs, u

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Food Traceability Gets Messy

Food traceability sounds like a dinner-table dream: faster recalls, fewer mystery spinach scares, and supply chains that can actually answer, “Where did this come from?” But a new analysis says the FDA’s tech-enabled vision may also be turning farmers, fishers, retailers and food workers into unpaid data laborers. Welcome to farm-to-spreadsheet. The wrinkle: The paper argues that the rule’s tracking requirements could hit smaller and under-resourced operators hardest. The goa

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Rain Robbers Get Soaked

Some crop insurance fraud cases involve fuzzy paperwork. This one allegedly involved actual weather equipment getting the “oops, no rain here” treatment. The rain robbers story details how farmers in Colorado and Kansas manipulated precipitation gauges to make drought look worse and collect insurance payouts. Apparently, even raindrops need auditors. How it worked: Federal prosecutors said Patrick Esch, Colorado farmer, and Ed Dean Jagers, Colorado farmer, tampered with rain

Farming

3 hours ago

USDA Funds the Lab Glow-Up

USDA is sending a fresh coat of funding to agricultural research, and not the kind where a university building gets one new chair and a “please enjoy innovation” memo. U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins and U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon announced a $125 million annual investment for the Research Facilities Act program. Lab report: The program is aimed at the unglamorous stuff that makes discovery possible: better controlled environments, safer labs, u

Technology

3 hours ago

Food Traceability Gets Messy

Food traceability sounds like a dinner-table dream: faster recalls, fewer mystery spinach scares, and supply chains that can actually answer, “Where did this come from?” But a new analysis says the FDA’s tech-enabled vision may also be turning farmers, fishers, retailers and food workers into unpaid data laborers. Welcome to farm-to-spreadsheet. The wrinkle: The paper argues that the rule’s tracking requirements could hit smaller and under-resourced operators hardest. The goa

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Europe May Finally Gene-Edit Its Attitude

Europe is moving closer to a new framework for plants created with new genomic techniques, which is Brussels-speak for gene editing without everyone immediately yelling “GMO” into a baguette. What happened: The Council adopted its first-reading position in April, sending the file toward the European Parliament. The goal is to create a more workable system for crops developed with targeted edits while keeping health and environmental protections on the books. Two buckets: The

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45Z Finally Gets Its GREET-ing Card

After months of the biofuels sector squinting at policy tea leaves, the Department of Energy released the June update to the 45ZCF-GREET model. Nothing says party like a lifecycle emissions calculator, but for corn, soy and renewable fuels, this one actually brought snacks. What changed: The updated change log refreshes model assumptions and reflects the current structure for the Clean Fuel Production Credit. The big industry takeaway is that the model gives producers a usabl

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Hormuz Deal May Not Unclog Farm Costs Overnight

The U.S. and Iran have an initial deal to end the war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, which is great news for anyone who enjoys global shipping lanes not being treated like a geopolitical cattle gate. The wrinkle: Farmers should not expect instant relief. The fertilizer damage has already moved through supply chains, and a reopened waterway does not magically restock every terminal, barge, warehouse and dealer shed. By the numbers: North Dakota State University economists mo

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