Agricultural news, updates and trends from The Gazette.
NEW Co.’s accidental release of of 265,000 gallons of nitrogen-based fertilizer from a facility in Red Oak killed 750,000 fish in the East Nishnabotna. The case is an ‘extreme outlier’ among fertilizer spills and one that calls for a larger penalty than the maximum $10,000 that can be enforced by regulators, an Iowa DNR attorney said.
The company had already announced that 308 Waterloo employees would lose their jobs in late April.
New tax credit guidelines issued for producers of sustainable aviation fuel
The Library of Congress has named an Iowa book of essays about agricultural pollution to a list of 56 “Great Reads” for 2024.
The chairs of the House and Senate agriculture committees earlier this month released competing frameworks for a new Farm Bill.
It’s rare for the DNR to ask the AG’s office to step in on enforcement. And the Environmental Protection Commission, a nine-person, governor-appointed board that oversees environmental polices at the DNR, doesn’t always follow staff recommendations.
Two men who were instrumental in the “craziest idea anyone ever had” of creating a global seed vault designed to safeguard the world's agricultural diversity will be awarded the annual prize this fall in Des Moines, officials announced Thursday in Washington.
A Tennessee-based sanitation company has agreed to pay more than half a million dollars after a federal investigation found it illegally hired at least two dozen children to clean dangerous meat processing facilities in Iowa and Virginia.
Because of the changeable weather and the growing number of questions farmers, policymakers, journalists and others have about it, Iowa State University Extension & Outreach hired Madelyann Wuestenberg to be the agency’s first agricultural climatologist.
The FDA strongly warned against drinking raw milk. Some states, including Iowa, have sought in recent years to expand the unpasteurized milk’s availability for purchase.
A bill prohibiting lawsuits over warning labels on products with federal labeling approval passed the Iowa Senate but was not considered in the Iowa House this year
FTC Chair Lina Khan, known for trying to stop mergers of big tech companies and grocery giants, heard from Iowa farmers Saturday who want her to investigate Koch Industries’ plans to buy one of the state’s largest fertilizer companies, built with state tax credits.
This is the third summer the Biden administration has waived the rule, citing the war in Ukraine -- but this time, also uncertainty in the Middle East -- as justification.
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