Month: December 2023

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Navigator withdraws Illinois application for its five-state carbon pipeline A company that wants to build a carbon pipeline stretching across the Midwest said on Tuesday it was withdrawing its application for the Illinois portion of the 1,350-mile project. In the past month, South Dakota utility regulators rejected Navigator CO2’s request… Continue reading

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Back in 2018, I wrote about how Christmas wouldn’t be the same without Texas agriculture. But now, let’s talk about fun AG facts about Christmas! Here are a few interesting tidbits on a few of the products and ingredients central to our… Continue reading

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I’ve had the 12 Days of Christmas stuck in my head for three days, except it’s not really the traditional Twelve Days of Christmas–mainly because I can never remember anything past the “Five Golden Rings.” You see, I have a sort of Texas “12 Days of Christmas” stuck in my… Continue reading

Brazil a stronger U.S. competitor in soybean sales In the past decade, Brazil has improved its network of roads, railways, and ports, “significantly altering” its competitiveness with the United States in the world soybean market, said an Agriculture Department report on Thursday. Continued improvements would bolster Brazil’s standing as the… Continue reading

USDA names Watkins new APHIS chief Michael Watson, the No. 2 official at the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service since 2018, will be the agency’s new administrator, announced the USDA on Wednesday. He will succeed Kevin Shea, who will become a senior adviser to Xochitl Torres Small, USDA deputy… Continue reading

USDA announces plan to conserve old-growth forests In a first-of-its-kind step, the Agriculture Department proposed to amend all of its 128 forest management plans to conserve and steward old-growth forests in its 193 million acres of National Forests and National Grasslands on Tuesday. “This will provide consistent direction across the… Continue reading

Koch expands nitrogen fertilizer holdings A Koch Industries subsidiary will pay $3.6 billion to buy the Iowa Fertilizer Company from chemical-maker OCI Global, based in the Netherlands, announced the companies on Monday. Iowa Fertilizer, which began production in 2017 in southeastern Iowa, was the first large-scale nitrogen fertilizer factory built… Continue reading

Treasury charts biofuel flight path to claiming SAF credits The biofuel industry said it is ready for full-throttle production of low-carbon fuel for airplanes, now that the Biden administration has released guidelines for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), potentially a 36 billion-gallon-a-year market. The guidelines allow tax credits of up to… Continue reading