Latest Sorghum News

• NSP Statement of Chlorpyrifos Ruling

  NSP Statement of Chlorpyrifos Ruling LUBBOCK, TX—On August 9, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit court issued a decision to vacate the Environmental Protection Agency order maintaining tolerances for the pesticide chlorpyrifos, and remanded to the EPA with directions to revoke all tolerances and cancel all registrations for chlorpyrifos within 60...
• EPA Approves Sorghum Oil Pathway

  EPA Approves Sorghum Oil Pathway Pathway clears the way for biodiesel plants to produce advanced biofuel from sorghum oil extracted at ethanol plants WASHINGTON, DC—Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler approved sorghum oil as an eligible feedstock under the Renewable Fuel Standard during a signing event today at EPA headquarters in...
• USDA Offers Trade Relief Funds to Farmers

  USDA Offers Trade Relief Funds to Farmers WASHINGTON, D.C. – National Sorghum Producers Legislative Committee Chairman and board director Dan Atkisson, a sorghum farmer from Stockton, Kansas, made the following statement in response to U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue’s announcement today regarding trade relief payments for farmers through the Market Facilitation Program. “National...