Landowner: Dream Dashed by EPA Pursuit
West Virginia developer Ron Foster has asked a federal appeals court to require a district court to apply a new jurisdictional test laid out in the Supreme Court case Sackett v. EPA. Foster has been fighting the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency since 2009 to develop a 90-acre tract of land the agency said contains waters of the U.S.
USDA Reports Summary
USDA released its Prospective Plantings and quarterly Grain Stocks reports on Monday.
USDA Report Review
USDA's March 1 (2025) Prospective Planting and quarterly Grain Stocks report held little fanfare for the corn market despite the prospective corn coming in 1.1 million acres above the Dow Jones average estimate. Wheat, on the other hand, got a boost from an all-wheat planting number that was 900,000 acres lower than expectations. Soybean acres held little in the way of surprise, estimated to be just slightly below pre-report expectations. March 1 stocks for all three ag commodities finished close to expectations.