Bird flu has been detected in a backyard flock in western Iowa, federal officials said Wednesday, a troubling development for a state that is home to the nation’s largest number of egg-laying hens.
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Bird flu has been detected in a backyard flock in western Iowa, federal officials said Wednesday, a troubling development for a state that is home to the nation’s largest number of egg-laying hens.
Not a formal investigation, but the attorney general will look at why the price of anhydrous ammonia fertilizer has increased 315 percent since January 2021, and other types of fertilizer have increased between 171 percent and 290 percent, according to the federal agriculture department.
The USDA reported just 72 Black farmers in Iowa in 2017, the most recent Census of Agriculture. That’s 0.05 percent of the 143,500 producers the USDA counted in the state.
State lawmakers should quadruple the money they might provide to upgrade outdated fueling stations as part of a proposed requirement to sell a gasoline blend that is 15 percent ethanol, according to convenience store owners.
A new facility in northwest Iowa that was built to create environmentally friendly fuel from cow manure polluted a creek this past week when it leaked an estimated 376,000 gallons of manure water, according to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources.
Republicans who support a bill that seeks to limit public land buys say the Iowa Department of Natural Resources and county conservation boards shouldn’t be competing with farmers trying to buy timber for cattle grazing. Democrats say its more likely developers or other farmers snapping up land.
Opponents said proposal would diminish the ability of county conservation boards and the Iowa Department of Natural Resources to acquire land.
Without much fuss and even less public attention, the nation’s egg producers are in the midst of a multibillion-dollar shift to cage-free eggs that is dramatically changing the lives of millions of hens in response to
Owners have yet to pay a $70,000 fine ordered by a judge last fall.
Some say the deal supports their concerns about how a lack of competition in the beef industry affects prices to consumers.
SWISHER — Cedar Rapids and Swisher firefighters rescued a man Thursday afternoon who was trapped in a corn grain silo …
Cedar Rapids native Austin Frerick says he will fight for a fair and progressive tax structure and to level the playing field for locally owned farms, restaurants and businesses so they can compete against foreign corporations.
It may come as a surprise to city dwellers excited by their home values that countless farmers are experiencing a real estate boom that makes residential prices pale in comparison.
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