In the wake of supply chain and customer base issues spurred on by the COVID-19 pandemic, several meat farms in Iowa have shifted business models to find alternate path to sell their products.
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In the wake of supply chain and customer base issues spurred on by the COVID-19 pandemic, several meat farms in Iowa have shifted business models to find alternate path to sell their products.
Pumpkin patches, wineries, apple orchards and strawberry fields all are considered agritourism. Looking to harness Iowa’s power as an agriculture state, businesses and government entities are looking to give farm operations a tourism boost.
American farmers planted 94.1 million acres of corn this year, up 6 percent from last year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported Friday.
“While American farmers and ranchers have been responding to the demand to produce more, their communities have struggled to see their share of the benefits,” Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said.
Cedar Falls native and NASA astronaut Raja Chari was joined by Iowa Republican U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst and Rep. Ashley Hinson, of Marion, at Grinnell College Monday for a round table discussion about the agriculture research that’s being done in space.
But there’s still more work to be done to close the gender gap in landownership education and resources, advocates say.
Arid conditions are expected to persist in eastern Iowa, Missouri, Illinois and Wisconsin.
While increasing blending volumes overall by raising the level for advanced biofuels, the new rule includes lower mandates for corn-based ethanol in 2024 and 2025 than the EPA had initially proposed.
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.
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