The Iowa Department of Natural Resources has fined a northwest Iowa dairy owner the maximum $10,000 penalty for releasing 376,000 gallons of manure into a creek from a new anaerobic digester that hadn't been properly sealed or certified.
The Sysco Corp. lawsuit said the companies' coordinated efforts to limit the number of cattle slaughtered drove down the price meat processors paid farmers and ranchers while propping up beef prices for consumers.
The over-application increased the risk of contaminating nearby waterways with nitrate, according to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources.
Cedar Rapids guitar maker specializes in steel-stringed guitars with little ornamentation
New position will aid the market’s existing diversity, equity and inclusion programs for business owners
The Iowa City Downtown District wants to bring more retailers selling mensware to the city’s downtown and has doubled the cash incentives in its retail referral program.
A Cedar Rapids landscaping company has partnered with a team of former Iowa State University researchers to sell a climate-friendly additive to fertilizer that some experts tout as key to soil rejuvenation and carbon sequestration. It may also help with water quality.
Smithfield Foods will pay restaurants and caterers $42 million to settle a lawsuit that accused the meat producer of conspiring to inflate pork prices, which likely only will add to concerns about the lack of competition in the industry.
Residents of Linn, Johnson, Cedar, Clinton and Scott counties will have a chance in September to share their thoughts about another proposed CO2 pipeline -- this one connecting ADM ethanol plants.
A group of seven farm workers and their families at Wilson’s Orchard & Farm are among the first group approved for Uniting for Ukraine, giving them up two years of temporary protection in the United States.
The expansion of a Feed Iowa First program helps immigrants to Iowa find an accessible entry to becoming full time farmers.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — When drastic increases in food costs spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic left Andrew Caplinger struggling to find fresh catfish for his restaurants, he decided to try “an experimental” solution — growing his own.
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