Two Cedar County farmers, who live just outside West Branch, recently were named 2021 Iowa Conservation Farmers of the Year.
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Two Cedar County farmers, who live just outside West Branch, recently were named 2021 Iowa Conservation Farmers of the Year.
The market’s late-summer produce stock includes tomatoes, zucchini, peppers, lettuce, cabbage, cucumbers and kale grown on-site, along with dill for pickling and eggs from the family chickens.
Lawmakers say they increased the penalties for trespassing at livestock operations to protect farmers from harassment and deter intrusions that threaten the safety of the state's multibillion-dollar agriculture industry.
Some companies have tweaked their mask policies after the new CDC guidance and mask wearing in areas of substantial and high transmission.
For the second time in four years, an influential nationwide pork dealer has been sanctioned by federal regulators for illegal buying practices that cheated hog sellers out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Markets not working fairly when demand is strong and packers are making record profits, but cattle farmers still are losing money, Sen. Chuck Grassley told Senate Judiciary Committee.
Robert Baenziger Jr., a Quad Cities scuba diver who failed to surface after a dive into a million-gallon anaerobic digester June 8, died of accidental drowning, according to the Office of the State Medical Examiner.
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — With his cattle ranch threatened by a deepening drought, Jim Stanko isn’t cheered by the coming storm signaled by the sound of thunder.
The program, which is in its first year, connects people who have a background in agriculture but no land with the fertile fields along Dows Road east of Cedar Rapids.
Last month, the Cedar Rapids City Council approved a resolution authorizing a lease agreement with the College Community School District for a pedestrian tunnel to link the site of the school’s future ag building and the rest of Prairie’s campus.
A $22.5 million funding request for modernizing the locks and dams on the Mississippi River is a “huge win” for Iowa and the Midwest because moving commodities on the river is critical to the agriculture export economy “and is an economic engine for the entire region.”
But more timely precipitation still needed, experts say, before drought conditions can be eliminated.
U.S. Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack announced plans Friday to launch programs to increase competition in the meat processing industry and resiliency in the food supply chain.
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