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Meatpacker tells the nation’s high court that companies “will not be so eager to willingly aid the federal government in a crisis” if those rulings that favor workers’ families are allowed to stand.
Native plants are key to insects’ survival
Alfred Matiyabo grows greens, eggplant and several varieties of peppers on 2.5 acres he rents at the Johnson County Poor Farm. He’s trying to find new ways to get his produce to African immigrants and to Iowans interested in trying new foods.
The package included funding and programs addressing crops and livestock, nutrition including food stamps, forestry and research.
Seven Iowans have appealed state regulators’ decision to grant a water use permit to an 11,600-head northeast Iowa cattle feedlot.
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources has fined a northwest Iowa dairy owner the maximum $10,000 penalty for releasing 376,000 gallons of manure into a creek from a new anaerobic digester that hadn't been properly sealed or certified.
The Sysco Corp. lawsuit said the companies' coordinated efforts to limit the number of cattle slaughtered drove down the price meat processors paid farmers and ranchers while propping up beef prices for consumers.
The over-application increased the risk of contaminating nearby waterways with nitrate, according to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources.
A Cedar Rapids landscaping company has partnered with a team of former Iowa State University researchers to sell a climate-friendly additive to fertilizer that some experts tout as key to soil rejuvenation and carbon sequestration. It may also help with water quality.
Smithfield Foods will pay restaurants and caterers $42 million to settle a lawsuit that accused the meat producer of conspiring to inflate pork prices, which likely only will add to concerns about the lack of competition in the industry.
A group of seven farm workers and their families at Wilson’s Orchard & Farm are among the first group approved for Uniting for Ukraine, giving them up two years of temporary protection in the United States.
The expansion of a Feed Iowa First program helps immigrants to Iowa find an accessible entry to becoming full time farmers.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — When drastic increases in food costs spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic left Andrew Caplinger struggling to find fresh catfish for his restaurants, he decided to try “an experimental” solution — growing his own.
