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The virus has been detected in five Iowa flocks just in the past week. That matches the highest rate of detection so far this year.
NEWSTRACK | CATCHING UP ON AN EARLIER STORY: In east-central Iowa, the crops south of Interstate 80 fared worse than those north of the interstate.
The affected flocks were about 100,000 turkeys in Cherokee County and about 40,000 in Sac County.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The federal government has illegally broken a promise to pay off the debts of a group of Black farmers, according to a class-action lawsuit. The group hopes to put pressure on officials to keep their word and to restore funding that was dropped after a group of white farmers filed legal challenges arguing their exclusion was a violation of their constitutional rights.
This year’s bird flu death toll of nearly 53 million fowl recently surpassed the total number of U.S. bird deaths in domestic flocks during the last outbreak of 2014-2015 after the disease surged this fall.
Iowa officials on Friday confirmed another case of bird flu, this time in a commercial turkey flock in Buena Vista County.
NEWSTRACK | CATCHING UP ON AN EARLIER STORY: In east-central Iowa, the crops south of Interstate 80 fared worse than those north of the interstate.
Republicans U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst of Iowa, the country's top corn and ethanol producing state, said the EPA should have gone further to require even more use of advanced biofuels.
Iowa’s U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst said the decree violates the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, the trade agreement between the North American countries.
The New Bohemian Innovation Collaborative on Nov. 15 hosted teachers, volunteers, community leaders, students, small business owners, entrepreneurs and innovators at the Olympic South Side Theater for its annual meeting.
An 11,600-head cattle feedlot -- the focus of an ongoing lawsuit against the state and continued scrutiny from neighbors -- soon will have less state oversight because owners have satisfied a stormwater management permit that will expire Jan. 1.
It’s an enticement that has helped the company ink land easements for half of its proposed route through Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota, South Dakota and North Dakota, a company executive said.
More than 800 Iowa retailers are licensed with the state to sell consumable hemp products, including food, drinks and lotions. But licensed manufacturers say the state is overrun with unlicensed product and the fees are too high to compete with national companies.
