Iowa Corn names 18 college students who will serve on their fifth Iowa Corn Collegiate Advisory Team or CAT. Natalie TeGrootenhuis of Hospers, Iowa is one of those students. She is an Ag Business and Marketing major at Northwestern College. TeGrootenhuis was on the...
By Ben NuelleWhen you get tired of doing the same thing day in and day out you try something different. A southeast Iowa farmer tells something different he planted this year. Mark Jackson is a grain and livestock farmer from Rose Hill.He was very pleased with this...
By Ken RootThey say the devil is in the details?well he showed up this week when the Text of the Transpacific Partnership was released in 30 chapters. So far, those for it remain so and those opposed..likewise. The president came out saying he?d sign it. But the...
By Ben Nuelle72 commercial poultry farms that had confirmed cases of bird flu are now able to restock birds. Friday, the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship and USDA lifted the quarantine.Officials say all 72 sites have completed the cleaning and...
The Senate passes Senator Joni?s Ernst?s resolution of disapproval which would put an end the expanded definition of the WOTUS rule.The resolution of disapproval passed the Senate Wednesday with bipartisan support.Senator Ernst says there is a fallacy out there that...
The text of Trans Pacific Partnership agreement is now available to the public.USDA says it will help Ag exports but what do big union groups think? USDA and other major Ag groups favor TPP. They say it will help increase farm income, generate rural economic activity,...
Harvest happiness seems to be the tone across much of Iowa. A Clay County farmer says the August rains helped his yields. Chuck White is Iowa Soybean Association District 1 Director and farms corn and soybeans with his brother Kevin White in Clay County. They recently...
WASHINGTON, D.C. ? U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today is pleased to announce Senate passage of S.J.Res.22, a joint resolution of disapproval of EPA?s ?Waters of the United States' (WOTUS)...
Just 3 three votes shy. Tuesday afternoon, the Senate fell three votes short to pass a bill forcing the Obama Administration to redo the Waters of the U.S. Rule.The Senate needed 60 votes to advance the bill to a full debate but only got 57. Claire McCaskill of...
Farmers across Iowa are on the home stretch with harvest either already done or almost complete.A farmer from Columbus Junction on the Mississippi River says this is the earliest he?s ever been done with harvest in 41 years. Wayne Humphries farms in Louisa County.He...
