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Iowa recipients are from Tabor, Marcus

There are 23.6 million hogs in Iowa, compared with the state’s 3.2 million people. Although this is a decrease in hogs of 1.3 percent in the last year, Iowa still is the top producer of swine in the country.

There are 23.6 million hogs in Iowa, compared with the state’s 3.2 million people. Although this is a decrease in hogs of 1.3 percent in the last year, Iowa still is the top producer of swine in the country.

Iowa’s small towns, many of which are declining in population, struggle to fund necessary infrastructure projects. Some, like Ely in Linn County, are looking to alternative funding options.

The deadline for signing up for the 2022 Census of Agriculture is June 22. Farmers who raise and sell at least $1,000 of products, including some animals, qualify to take the twice-a-decade census.

At the height of the pandemic, the meat processing industry worked closely with political appointees in the Trump administration to stave off health restrictions and keep slaughterhouses open even as COVID-19 spread rapidly among workers, according to a Congressional report released Thursday.

The Trump administration overpaid corn farmers by about $3 billion in federal aid in 2019 and farmers in the South were paid more for the same crops than those elsewhere in the country, a federal watchdog agency has found.

Landowners and interested parties are invited to learn more about what it takes to establish quality habitat to attract and retain various game species. Lunch will be provided by Jackson County Pheasants Forever.

Greenfield, who grew up on a southern Minnesota farm and has worked in real estate and community development, will lead the agency’s efforts to improve the quality of life in rural Iowa.

Farmers have harvested 91 percent of corn for grain, which is four days ahead of the five-year average, and 97 percent of the soybean crop, according to the USDA.

Daniel Gingerich hoarded more than 500 dogs throughout his multiple properties in Southern Iowa’s Seymour, west of Centerville, which were all in equally poor condition, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals says.

The Iowa Supreme Court’s decision came three years to the day after a group of Iowans, assisted by the Animal Legal Defense Fund, filed a lawsuit against the zoo’s owners, Pamela and Thomas Sellner, alleging numerous violations of Iowa’s animal neglect laws.