Black Hawk County sheriff’s deputies arrested 38-year-old Nolan Otto Dewall on Monday on one count of livestock neglect, a misdemeanor.
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Black Hawk County sheriff’s deputies arrested 38-year-old Nolan Otto Dewall on Monday on one count of livestock neglect, a misdemeanor.
What made the critical difference was the turkey industry’s decision to take it upon itself to hunt down the virulent strain.
Iowa specialty crops, including hazelnuts, melons and cold-hardy red wine, got a boost this week with $300K in federal money awarded by the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship.
In November, Iowa Republicans U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst, among others, introduced their own legislation they said was needed to bring fairness to the cattle marketplace.
The Trump administration overpaid corn farmers by about $3 billion in federal aid in 2019 and farmers in the South were paid more for the same crops than those elsewhere in the country, a federal watchdog agency has found.
The last time farmland values increased more than 25 percent in a year was in 2011, when values rose 32.5 percent due to surging ethanol demand and high commodity prices.
A coalition of California restaurants and grocery stores has filed a lawsuit to block implementation of a new farm animal welfare law, adding to uncertainty about whether bacon and other fresh pork products will be much more expensive or in short supply in the state when the new rules take effect on New Year's Day.
The Iowa Farm Bureau this week elected a Calhoun County farmer to succeed Craig Hill, who retired after 10 years leading the powerful farm group.
Gov. Kim Reynolds in June signed a bill that allows Iowa animal feeding operations to exceed confinement capacity if they install an anaerobic digester to treat all manure.
Navigator, a Texas-based company, is proposing a 1,300-mile pipeline that would pass through 36 Iowa counties, including Linn, Benton, Cedar, Delaware and Iowa, capturing carbon dioxide at ethanol and fertilizer plants and transporting the liquid form of the gas to a sequestration site in western Illinois.
If the shipping issues continue, that could create a backup of products, which could drive down the prices farmers receive for selling their goods.
A former manager for an influential Iowa-based pork dealer has died in a crash, days after federal prosecutors charged him in a scheme to swindle hog farmers through fraudulent buying practices.
Farmers have harvested 91 percent of corn for grain, which is four days ahead of the five-year average, and 97 percent of the soybean crop, according to the USDA.
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