Your browser does not support the audio tag.URBANDALE, Iowa - In 2012, just as the apple trees were blooming, a hard frost swept through the Midwest, right through apple grower Bryan Etchen's trees at Iowa Orchard in Urbandale just outside of Des Moines."Everybody...
Your browser does not support the audio tag.DES MOINES, Iowa - For the most part, crop conditions are unchanged from last week. So is the dry weather pattern over much of the state.Corn and soybean prices Tuesday felt some downward pressure due to cooler, wetter...
Your browser does not support the audio tag.WASHINGTON - On Tuesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia upheld USDA?s authority to issue rules implementing country of origin labeling (COOL) for meat and poultry products. R-CALF CEO Bill Bullard was...
DES MOINES, Iowa - In early August, USDA's Farm Service Agency will send every landowner and operator a summary of their acreage history; Farm Management Specialist Steven Johnson with Iowa State University says to make sure it doesn't get thrown away.Recipients will...
WASHINGTON - Last Thursday, Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley, along with Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar, sent a letter to the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission, requesting further examination of possible anti-competitive practices of some oil...
MARION, Iowa - China's market remains shut to cargoes of U.S. corn and distiller's dried grains (DDGs). That's not quite as bad as it sounds.According to market analyst Rich Balvanz with AMS Commodities in Marion, China's harbors remain closed to shipments of American...
DES MOINES, Iowa - One of the most persistent criticisms of the Iowa Nutrient Reduction Strategy is its lack of numeric criteria to measure the success of conservation work. But that may soon change.Last Thursday, the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land...
DES MOINES, Iowa - Two thirds of Iowa's corn and soybean crop this year are good to excellent, and both crops are ahead of schedule.In yesterday's crop progress report, USDA rated 76 percent of the corn crop and 73 percent of the soybean crop in Iowa as good to...
OTTOWA, Ontario - On Saturday, negotiators from the 12 member countries of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade talks wrapped up their latest meeting in the Canadian capitol of Ottawa, Ontario.The Japan Times reports that even a date for the next meeting proved...
WASHINGTON - Since graduating from Drake University in 1996 with a bachelor's degree in environmental studies, newly minted Chief Agricultural Trade Negotiator Darci Vetter has only moved upward.On Wednesday, the Senate confirmed Vetter in her new role; before that,...
