Chinese ownership of U.S. farmland increased from $81 million in 2010 to $1.87 billion in 2021, the USDA reported.
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Chinese ownership of U.S. farmland increased from $81 million in 2010 to $1.87 billion in 2021, the USDA reported.
Chuck Grassley says measure will ‘make sure Iowa pork can be sold everywhere in the nation’
She signed a letter urging Congress to overturn California’s law dictating the conditions of livestock that produce meat sold in the state, joining the chorus of Iowa Republicans calling the law disastrous for agriculture.
The sense Iowa’s agricultural land is both scarce and gaining value has driven the average price to a record-setting $11,400 per acre last year. Now Iowa farmers are bidding not only against neighbors, but out-of-state investors including professional athletes, well-known billionaires and the Mormon Church.
The Sustainable Iowa Land Trust (SILT) has preserved 1,200 acres on 16 farms since 2015. The West Branch nonprofit’s mission is to preserve Iowa farmland for sustainable table food. A new campaign, Circle Our Cities, sets a goal of creating 10 permanent food farms around 10 Iowa cities in 10 years.
CapCO2 Solutions and Adkins Energy LLC, based in Lena, Illinois, will partner for a project to test technology that would capture CO2 at the plant, combine it with hydrogen and turn it into green methanol -- a desirable renewable fuel.
Iowa’s farmland owners are getting older and while that means their land likely will change hands soon, it probably won’t go to beginning farmers, according to the results of a new survey.
, a new not-for-profit organization, wants to “take away some of the noise” and talk about how Iowa could benefit financially from projects that would capture CO2 from ethanol plants and use it for industrial purposes or
Debt limit debate delaying work on bill in Congress
Results inform policy, payments, loans, insurance
Los fondos federales para la agricultura son recursos esenciales, pero los productores inmigrantes se enfrentan con barreras lingüísticas y culturales que no les permiten sacar provecho de ellos
Federal agriculture funding is a vital resource, but immigrant producers face language and cultural obstacles to benefiting from it.
Iowa Republican U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson plans to reintroduce legislation to overturn a California law she says will devastate Iowa pork producers.
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