Agricultural news, updates and trends from The Gazette.
A new report linking pesticide overuse to children’s health issues has ignited a battle within President Donald Trump’s circle of support, pitting powerful agrichemical giants against some organic food advocates.
County ordinances in Iowa that restrict the placement of carbon dioxide pipelines are overruled by the authority of state and federal regulators and cannot be enforced, a federal appeals court decided Thursday.
While the U.S. economy looks good underneath the surface, uncertainty around the impact of Trump’s tariffs and trade policy has kicked up a “bunch of question marks in the air, you know, dust in the air that makes the visibility low” for the Fed to consider lowering short-term borrowing costs, said Chicago Federal Reserve Bank President Austan Goolsbee.
An absentee Iowa farmland owner does not have legal standing to sue the federal government for its ‘Swampbuster’ wetland protections, but even if he did the challenge would likely fail, a federal judge decided Thursday.
Iowa was about 8 degrees colder than normal last week. About 95 percent of corn has been planted, and it needs some warmth to grow.
Farmers use herbicides like Roundup to kill weeds, preventing them from destroying crops. But in recent years, Bayer, which now manufactures Roundup, has faced lawsuits claiming that the pesticide, particularly its main ingredient, glyphosate, causes personal injuries, including cancer.
The owner of a small northeast Iowa dairy recently agreed to pay $1,260 for contaminating a nearby creek with an unknown amount of manure a year ago, according to the state Department of Natural Resources.
The average rental rates for Iowa farmland decreased by about 2.9% this year, to about $271 per acre, according to an annual survey conducted by the Iowa State University Extension and Outreach.
Microbiologist Mariangela Hungria receives 2025 World Food Prize
A locally made podcast recorded by a father and son from the loft of a repurposed barn is doing numbers on national download rankings.
Farmers in northeast Iowa planted more corn and soybeans last week than in all of the three weeks prior, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Representatives send IDALS policy bill to governor
As bird flu has spread across the U.S., bird disposal companies, environmental waste businesses and large poultry producers have received millions of federal dollars to kill flocks, compost their bodies and clean barns across the country. Investigate Midwest goes inside the business of killing in response to bird flu.
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