Articles Tagged: Iowa Farm Bureau

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds sent a letter Wednesday to congressional leaders urging support for legislation to block California’s regulations reintroduced by a group of U.S. House members, including Iowa Republicans Ashley Hinson, Randy Feenstra, Zach Nunn and Mariannette Miller-Meeks.

While Iowa’s problems are uniquely severe, nitrate levels are a rising concern in other regions, from California to the Chesapeake Bay.

The Iowa Farm Bureau’s latest food and farm index found that among concerns of the high cost of groceries, the overwhelming majority of Iowa grocery shoppers surveyed are concerned about increases to food prices caused by government regulations.

U.S. pork producers say they’re “deeply disappointed” in U.S. Senate Democrats’ proposed farm bill released Monday for not addressing California’s Proposition 12.

Also, Iowa Farm Bureau endorses Democrat Sami Scheetz for Iowa House

Also in the Campaign Almanac: Iowa Farm Bureau’s political arm endorses Ashley Hinson.

Despite the pressures, there’s optimism around increased yields thanks to technology advances and drought-resistant seeds.

Also, the Iowa Farm Bureau’s political arm endorses Republican Congressional candidate Zach Nunn

Also, Ashley Hinson and Liz Mathis have agreed to a debate

Iowa agriculture groups are calling on President Joe Biden to lift tariffs on fertilizer products, which the groups say are driving up prices and hurting farmers and consumers.

The Iowa Legislature wants to spend $1 million next year to revise the state’s long-standing nitrogen fertilizer calculator used in seven corn-growing states. Some water quality advocates fear the update will mean more fertilizer applied to fields and more runoff into streams and lakes, but two Iowa State professors welcome the opportunity for new research into the nitrogen question.

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.

In 2004, a group of Midwestern soil scientists, including John Sawyer at Iowa State University, developed the Maximum Return to Nitrogen, a practice that calls for weighing the prices of corn and fertilizer to find the sweet spot of productivity and profit without waste. The Iowa Farm Bureau Federation criticized the approach in a July podcast.