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Gov. Kim Reynolds in June signed a bill that allows Iowa animal feeding operations to exceed confinement capacity if they install an anaerobic digester to treat all manure.
Navigator, a Texas-based company, is proposing a 1,300-mile pipeline that would pass through 36 Iowa counties, including Linn, Benton, Cedar, Delaware and Iowa, capturing carbon dioxide at ethanol and fertilizer plants and transporting the liquid form of the gas to a sequestration site in western Illinois.
If the shipping issues continue, that could create a backup of products, which could drive down the prices farmers receive for selling their goods.
A former manager for an influential Iowa-based pork dealer has died in a crash, days after federal prosecutors charged him in a scheme to swindle hog farmers through fraudulent buying practices.
Farmers have harvested 91 percent of corn for grain, which is four days ahead of the five-year average, and 97 percent of the soybean crop, according to the USDA.
In the past few months, the U.S. Department of Justice has sided with Tyson workers on a key element of the case.
Cattle are the top source of methane in agriculture. One cow can belch more than 200 pounds of methane each year, according to researchers at the University of California, Davis. There were about 3.7 million cattle and calves in Iowa as of January.
Drought, rain, rain, rain, and now, overflowing bushels
Iowa OSHA has fined Agri Star Meat and Poultry plant in Postville more than $28,000 for violations found after a February explosion that injured two employees.
Gavilon Grain, which signed a consent order with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources Oct. 22, has agreed to pay nearly $270,000 after a June 2020 fertilizer spill that killed hundreds of fish and mussels.
A federal judge this week ordered Rep. Devin Nunes' family members to disclose how they are paying for their defamation lawsuit against a reporter and magazine publisher over a 2018 story about their Iowa farm.
The 56-year-old man was struck and killed by a vehicle around 6 a.m. Wednesday while joining strikers on a picket line outside the John Deere Parts Distribution Center in Milan, Ill.
Both rainfall and temperatures were above average for the week ending Oct. 24, state climatologist reports.
