It is the first statewide assessment of Iowa streams
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It is the first statewide assessment of Iowa streams
Foreign investment in Iowa farmland more than doubled in the last 10 years, but Iowa still ranks in the bottom half of states for acres with foreign investment. Iowa’s foreign acres are less than 2 percent of privately-owned agricultural land.
Farmers should request refunds of the penny-per-bushel fee they pay for their sold corn to protest the Iowa Corn Growers Association’s support of carbon pipelines, according to some pipeline opponents.
Private wells in Minnesota are facing nitrate contamination that must be addressed. Iowa is no stranger to these water quality issues
Here’s what that means for Iowa farmers
The report brings to 14 confirmations spread across 10 Iowa counties since outbreaks started appearing in the state in October after a seven-month break,
“These are farmers and landowners who want to do conservation on their farm. They want to do something we all seem to support — which is conserving natural resources,” said Jonathan Coppess, an associate professor and director of the Gardner Agriculture Policy Program at the University of Illinois.
13 poultry operations in the period affected as birds euthanized.
Iowa has more than tripled the number of acres of corn left standing to protect roadways from blowing snow since 2016, but the Iowa Department of Transportation is looking for more farmers to boost the program.
Confirmations bring to 11 reports in eight counties of bird flu since October.
Statewide average precipitation was 3.12 inches in October, but state is still 7 inches short of moisture this year.
At least 160,000 birds have been euthanized in the nine incidents confirmed in the state since October.
The latest four are three game ducks farms — one also including a mixed-species backyard poultry flock — in Clay County, and a flock of commercial breeding chickens in Hamilton County.
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