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An effort in Oregon follows bills passed earlier this year in Washington and Colorado to grant overtime pay to farmworkers.
Iowa’s corn condition rated 63 percent as good to excellent —14 percentage points below the week before. Soybean condition rated 61 percent as good to excellent — 12 points worse than last week.
A federal judge has halted a loan forgiveness program for farmers of color in response to a lawsuit alleging the program discriminates against white farmers.
New Liberty’s fire chief said the man was doing some work in the manure tank when he got stuck.
When Laura Krouse launched the Abbe Hills Farm Community Supported Agriculture in 1995, she had 10 shareholders. This year, 150 …
Three female Iowa entrepreneurs developed Farmmee, an app to connect farmers with providers who can do various jobs.
University of Iowa Health Care researchers will be texting the migrant workers in Iowa -- a population largely “invisible” in health care -- this summer to find out about their health.
Study finds procedural inconsistencies in herbicide’s approval in 2018
The National Pork Producers Council urged the federal government Tuesday to let them continue an effort to speed up the processing of pigs into bacon and ham despite the United Food and Commercial Workers Union’s claim that the increased volume endangers workers.
Environmental groups are asking Iowa Department of Natural Resources Director Kayla Lyon to use her discretion to overrule a project to put 11,600 cattle near a northeast Iowa trout stream.
“Farmers care deeply about the land, and about the water, and, at the same time, they also want to make a living,” Vilsack says.
They blame consolidation of meat processing for rising prices at the store but stagnant prices on the farm.
