“The government shutdown possibility sucks all of the oxygen out of the room,” Iowa State University professor Chad Hart says. “So until that is taken care of, you really can’t make forward progress on any other piece of legislation, including a Farm Bill.”
Crop yields will likely take a hit, although impacts will be variable field to field.
American farmers planted 94.1 million acres of corn this year, up 6 percent from last year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported Friday.
Iowa will participate in a federal program to help provide food for Iowa school children during summer break. The announcement comes after anti-hunger groups implored state officials to apply for the federal assistance.
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Iowa Democratic lawmakers have implored Republican Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds to apply for federal assistance to help provide food for Iowa school children during summer break. For the summer, families in participating states with children eligible for free or reduced lunch during the 2022-23 school year will receive up to $120 per child.
Chinese ownership of U.S. farmland increased from $81 million in 2010 to $1.87 billion in 2021, the USDA reported.
Los fondos federales para la agricultura son recursos esenciales, pero los productores inmigrantes se enfrentan con barreras lingüísticas y culturales que no les permiten sacar provecho de ellos
Federal agriculture funding is a vital resource, but immigrant producers face language and cultural obstacles to benefiting from it.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture spent $7.4 billion in payments to farmers between 2017 and 2020 through two of its biggest conservation programs, but very little of that money went to practices that help fight climate change, according to a report from the Environmental Working Group.
Nearly two years removed from the Aug. 10, 2020, derecho, most Iowa farmers are back on their feet, but some are still recovering and rebuilding their operations, with some toppled and damaged farm buildings still in disarray .
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.
Month by month, more of the roughly 40 million Americans who get help buying groceries through the federal food stamp program are seeing their benefits plunge even as the nation struggles with the biggest increase in food costs in decades.
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