The Bayer Fund grant will help the program train its seasonal apprentices in no-till production for cover crops.
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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.
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.
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