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President Donald Trump won a court ruling that makes it easier for him to rescind the Obama administration’s plan for weaning American power producers off of coal and other fossil fuels.

Iowa farmers asked Republican lawmakers Monday to reconsider plans to eliminate an agriculture research center they say is vital to the state’s largest industry.

President Donald Trump has signed more than 30 executive orders during his first 100 days, and he hasn’t forgotten to get the agriculture industry and rural America involved. Earlier Tuesday, Trump signed the executive order, titled Promoting Agriculture and Rural Prosperity in America, in front of newly installed Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue, a 14-member farmer roundtable and others.

John Kavulich, president of the U.S.-Cuba Trade and Economic Council, reports that a shipment of rice will travel from the port of Houston/Galveston to the Republic of Cuba - the first shipment of its kind in a decade.

An environmental assessment of proposals for managing human-wolf conflicts and wolf depredation on livestock in Minnesota recommends that federal officials continue using a combination of lethal and non-lethal methods.

More than 60 agriculture groups sent letters to lawmakers hoping federal crop insurance will survive budget negotiations.

From 1971 to 1977, the EPA hired freelance photographers who ultimately took more than 15,000 photos relating to “environmental problems, EPA activities and everyday life in the 1970s.

Recent polls suggest French far-right leader Marine le Pen could win the first round of the April-May election, but predict she would lose the ensuing runoff vote.

White House officials familiar with the matter say President Donald Trump will sign a measure later today that directs regulators to review the embattled Waters of the United States rule – commonly known in the agriculture industry as WOTUS.

A panel of farmers stressed in importance of crop insurance, trade, conservation and other programs during a recent Senate hearing.