ALTOONA, Iowa - On Tuesday the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association held its ninth annual Iowa Renewable Fuels Summit, with record turnout. One purpose of the summit is to look at the year ahead, and for 2015, Iowa RFA Policy Director Grant Menke says that means both...
JOHNSTON, Iowa - Seed company DuPont Pioneer is expanding its campus in Johnston with a new $40 million facility for research and safety assessments.Named after early DNA researcher Francis Crick, the Crick Research Center will house about 400 employees. The facility...
Your browser does not support the audio tag.AMES and DES MOINES, Iowa - The crude oil pipeline proposed by the Dakota Access LLC arm of Dallas-based company Energy Transfer would stretch from Lyon county in northwest Iowa, to Lee county in southeast Iowa, with the...
Your browser does not support the audio tag.NEWTON and DES MOINES, Iowa - Despite the enormity of choosing programs under the new farm safety net, many farmers aren't visiting their county farm service agency offices.The Agricultural Risk Coverage program at an...
Your browser does not support the audio tag.DES MOINES, Iowa - Funding to improve Iowa's water quality will be a top issue this legislative session, and support is widespread in the statehouse.Earlier this week, the state legislature convened in Des Moines, and at the...
Your browser does not support the audio tag.AMES, Iowa - The 2014 growing season, at least in central Iowa was, in a word, abnormal.In a few more words, 2014 saw "very late planting; very cool, early soil temperatures; excess rain," according to Iowa State University...
type="audio/mp3">Your browser does not support the audio tag.DES MOINES, Iowa - Due to high nitrate levels in the Raccoon River, the Des Moines Water Works Thursday voted unanimously to issue a notice of intent to sue to the Boards of Supervisors in Sac, Buena...
Your browser does not support the audio tag.URBANDALE, Iowa - Iowa's ethanol industry has brought a significant amount of renewable fuel into the market in a short amount of time, but according to Petroleum Marketers and Convenience Stores of Iowa President Dawn...
Your browser does not support the audio tag.DES MOINES, Iowa - It's tough to overstate the importance of China to the American agricultural economy; China is easily the largest export market for American agricultural goods, purchasing about $26 billion in American ag...
Your browser does not support the audio tag.DENVER - It hasn't been easy getting U.S. ag products into Cuba. That's changing with recent announcements from the Obama Administration that the United States will reestablish diplomatic relations with Cuba, along with...
