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My husband and I run a 4th-generation family farm south of Dexter, and we are former cattle producers. We used …

Citing growing concern about Chinese investment in U.S. agriculture, Iowa Republican U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson announced a renewed push to more closely monitor foreign ownership of farmland across the country.

Two meat plant workers from Iowa and one from Georgia have filed a federal lawsuit accusing 11 of the United States’ largest beef and pork producers of conspiring to depress wages and benefits.

Amid growing concern about Chinese investment in U.S. agriculture, there has been a renewed push to limit and more closely monitor foreign ownership of farmland across the country.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced more than $223 million in grants and loans Wednesday to help small and mid-sized meat processing plants expand to help boost competition in the highly concentrated industry.

Capital looking at options to reduce odor from processing plants

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.

IOWA CITY — An animal-rights activist whose investigations and pranks have made him a leading foe of the livestock industry …

Lisa Schulte Moore wants to get the average Iowan as excited about anaerobic digestion as she is. ‘Like I said, …

In the last two weeks, there have been two coronavirus outbreaks at Smithfield Foods facilities in South Dakota and Wisconsin, …