To learn more about what could be expected, the Gazette spoke with the policy manager for the Center For Rural Affairs.
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To learn more about what could be expected, the Gazette spoke with the policy manager for the Center For Rural Affairs.
U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst, a Republican from rural Iowa, and Wally Taylor, a Marion lawyer for the Iowa chapter of the Sierra Club, agree a new federal rule designed to protect waterways from pollution is ambiguous.
Shelby Smith founded Gym-N-Eat Crickets in 2018 after deciding she did not enjoy a banking and finance career abroad. She now raises common house crickets in what used to be a single-wide trailer she calls the Cricket Castle. She’s also poised for expansion.
There are 23.6 million hogs in Iowa, compared with the state’s 3.2 million people. Although this is a decrease in hogs of 1.3 percent in the last year, Iowa still is the top producer of swine in the country.
But inspections and enforcement are spotty, undertaken only when someone lodges a complaint in Iowa
The Bayer Fund grant will help the program train its seasonal apprentices in no-till production for cover crops.
Experts say high crop prices, limited land for sale and low interest rates contributed to the latest increase in Iowa farmland values
The Gazette looked at the boards of 10 agricultural groups at the state and national levels and found, by looking at individual and group photographs, nearly all of the members appear to be white and about three-quarters appear to be men.
Summit intends to build about 680 miles of pipe in the northwestern half of the state to transport carbon dioxide from ethanol plants to North Dakota for underground sequestration. The company is surveying land to help determine the proposed pipeline’s path and depth.
The Westerns own one of only about 1,700 Iowa Heritage Farms, which means a farm in the same family for at least 150 years. Theirs is likely the only such farm owned by a Black family.
The state’s detection rate of the virus at commercial facilities has dramatically increased in December, with six of those seven confirmations in the past week.
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.
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