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• Jim Carlson, 59, who farms near the eastern Nebraska town of Osceola, said he's turned down two TransCanada offers, including one for $244,000, and is more concerned than ever about chemical additives that could run through the pipe.
• "I think a lot of people who have signed so far, especially in the beginning, didn't know a lot about the pipeline," Carlson said. "Initially, I thought it would be good for the country, that it would reduce our dependence on foreign oil. But now? They could offer me $344,000 today, and I wouldn't sign it."
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Yankton Livestock Auction settles USDA complaint
• YANKTON, S.D. (AP) -- The Yankton Livestock Auction Market has agreed to pay $2,000 as part of a settlement in a federal complaint that argues the South Dakota group had custodial account shortages.
• The Yankton Daily Press and Dakotan (http://bit.ly/1ehLY4W ) reports that each market agency selling livestock on commission, such as Yankton Livestock, must maintain a so-called custodial account that benefits livestock consignors.
• The provision was established through the federal Packers and Stockyards Act. The 1921 law was designed to prevent conflicts of interest and market manipulation.
• A shortage in a custodial account occurs when the total credits exceed the total debits of the custodial account. Operating with a shortage is a federal violation.
• Yankton Livestock has neither agreed nor denied its guilt by agreeing to settle the U.S. Department of Agriculture's complaint.
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Lawmakers mull full repeal of Tenn. whiskey law
ERIK SCHELZIG, Associated Press
• NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- State lawmakers are considering an outright repeal of a 2013 law that established, for the first time, a legal definition of Tennessee whiskey.
• Supporters of the move in the House State Government Committee said Tuesday that the law enacted last year unfairly benefits Jack Daniel's, the world's most famous Tennessee whiskey.
• Some new distillers argue they want to explore different types of spirits that wouldn't be allowed to be called Tennessee whiskey under the current law.
• "We don't want to make our whiskey like Jack Daniel's makes their whiskey," said Michael Ballard, owner of Full Throttle distillery in Trimble, a town of about 600 (Continued on page 23)
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