Programs that provide drought relief to farmers use the U.S. Drought Monitor to determine eligibility, but some experts say the monitor doesn’t always capture local conditions accurately.
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Programs that provide drought relief to farmers use the U.S. Drought Monitor to determine eligibility, but some experts say the monitor doesn’t always capture local conditions accurately.
Corteva Agriscience, the most dominant player in the U.S. corn industry, has said it takes labor abuses in its supply chain seriously. But, it’s hired labor contractor T. Bell Detasseling, which has repeatedly run afoul of federal labor laws.
Regancrest Holsteins has contaminated neighboring property and a creek tributary at least five times since 2018.
Reynolds and Iowa state officials and business leaders said the trip will create economic opportunities for Iowa’s agriculture industry as India’s need for food grows with its population
A mismanaged manure basin at an open cattle feedlot east of Cascade leaked manure at a "very high rate" and contaminated a creek that flows to the North Fork Maquoketa River.
Roughly 100 workers at Cargill’s corn milling plant in Cedar Rapids went on strike Tuesday after being unable to reach an agreement on a new contract.
The comprehensive package of legislation that sets agriculture and food policy is supposed to be updated every five years. But partisan gridlock got in the way last year, forcing Congress simply to extend the 2018 bill another year. That extension expired Monday.
The union represents about 100 employees across a range of positions at the Cargill corn milling plant in Cedar Rapids. The bargaining unit’s contract expired at 11:59 p.m. Monday.
Today’s agricultural staples are planted into the ground each growing season, but Kernza remains in the ground for years, improving soil conditions.
On a typical day, Cornell College’s cafeteria is stocked with meals that are 20 to 30 percent locally sourced. But Tuesday, all the food served to Cornell students — breakfast, lunch and dinner — came from within 150 miles of the Mount Vernon campus.
“As you drive across the Midwest, maybe in the next seven, eight, 10 years, you're going to see a lot of this out there,” said Cameron Sorgenfrey, an eastern Iowa farmer who has been growing newly developed short corn for several years, sometimes prompting puzzled looks from neighboring farmers. “I think this is going to change agriculture in the Midwest."
The state previously had been ‘drought-free’ since May after four years of at least some drought conditions.
State regulators erred in numerous ways when they approved a permit for what might be the first carbon dioxide pipeline system in Iowa, according to new lawsuits.
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