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By Jared Strong, - Iowa Capital Dispatch Business News Jan. 6, 2023 4:21 pm29d ago
Iowa recipients are from Tabor, Marcus
Southeast Iowa Union Agriculture Jan. 6, 2023 5:00 am31d ago
DES MOINES — The U.S. Department of Agriculture is surveying 46 Iowa hemp producers this month to see how their 2022 crop did.
Grace King Agriculture Jan. 5, 2023 11:20 am36d ago
There are 23.6 million hogs in Iowa, compared with the state’s 3.2 million people. Although this is a decrease in hogs of 1.3 percent in the last year, Iowa still is the top producer of swine in the country.
Brittney J. Miller Agriculture Jan. 1, 2023 5:00 am37d ago
To learn more about what could be expected, the Gazette spoke with the policy manager for the Center For Rural Affairs.
Erin Jordan Environmental News Dec. 30, 2022 5:24 pm36d ago
U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst, a Republican from rural Iowa, and Wally Taylor, a Marion lawyer for the Iowa chapter of the Sierra Club, agree a new federal rule designed to protect waterways from pollution is ambiguous.
Agriculture Dec. 29, 2022 8:33 am38d ago
Shelby Smith founded Gym-N-Eat Crickets in 2018 after deciding she did not enjoy a banking and finance career abroad. She now raises common house crickets in what used to be a single-wide trailer she calls the Cricket Castle. She’s also poised for expansion.
Agriculture Dec. 26, 2022 11:25 am41d ago
There are 23.6 million hogs in Iowa, compared with the state’s 3.2 million people. Although this is a decrease in hogs of 1.3 percent in the last year, Iowa still is the top producer of swine in the country.
Sky Chadde and Johnathan Hettinger, - Investigate Midwest
Agriculture Dec. 25, 2022 5:00 am45d ago
But inspections and enforcement are spotty, undertaken only when someone lodges a complaint in Iowa
Agriculture Dec. 19, 2022 6:00 am49d ago
The Bayer Fund grant will help the program train its seasonal apprentices in no-till production for cover crops.
Agriculture Dec. 27, 2022 3:29 pm39d ago
The Gazette looked at the boards of 10 agricultural groups at the state and national levels and found, by looking at individual and group photographs, nearly all of the members appear to be white and about three-quarters appear to be men.
By Jared Strong - Iowa Capital Dispatch
Environmental News Dec. 16, 2022 3:48 pm50d ago
Summit intends to build about 680 miles of pipe in the northwestern half of the state to transport carbon dioxide from ethanol plants to North Dakota for underground sequestration. The company is surveying land to help determine the proposed pipeline’s path and depth.
Agriculture Dec. 19, 2022 8:43 am48d ago
The Westerns own one of only about 1,700 Iowa Heritage Farms, which means a farm in the same family for at least 150 years. Theirs is likely the only such farm owned by a Black family.
By Jared Strong - Iowa Capital Dispatch
Agriculture Dec. 14, 2022 5:06 pm52d ago
The state’s detection rate of the virus at commercial facilities has dramatically increased in December, with six of those seven confirmations in the past week.