Three female Iowa entrepreneurs developed Farmmee, an app to connect farmers with providers who can do various jobs.
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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.
Anaerobic digesters can
Farmers always watch the forecast to figure out when to plant, but this year, drought conditions gripping much of the state have raised anxiety levels. At the same time, corn and soybean prices are higher than they’ve been for a while.
Environmental groups say Supreme Beef facility may endanger trout stream
Because the feedlot is on porous terrain in the watershed of an important trout stream, the petition states, there is high risk of manure running into the water and potentially killing fish and destroying their habitat.
With about 270 on-farm digesters in the U.S. — four of those in Iowa — advocates see a great opportunity for expansion at large-scale CAFOs. Environmentalists say the energy benefits are small compared with cost.
Farmers less likely than public overall to say excess nutrients come primarily from ag runoff
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