With harvest moving at a record pace, it might seem like the drought's most visible effects are behind us. To some degree that's true, if you don't plan on having Christmas this year. Gary Harman grows spruce, pine and fir trees at the 40-acre, 40,000-tree Walnut...
Photo courtesy of Chris Devers.On Tuesday October 9, Mitt Romney made a campaign stop in Van Meter, roughly 20 minutes outside of Des Moines. Speaking in front of a barn to a crowd of nearly 1,000, Romney contrasted his intentions for ag policy with the Obama...
Tai Johnson-Spratt raises rare chickens and turkeys (and peacocks) at Foxhollow Farm in Elkhart, Iowa. She explains what this winter might be like, based off of folklore that chickens' molts herald different...
Image courtesy of the Iowa Pork Producers Association.Vice President of the Humane Society of the United States Paul Shapiro responds to Iowa Pork Producers Association's President Bill Tentinger's claim that eventually, HSUS wants to end all animal...
Greg Thesson with USDA NASS's Iowa Field Office explains what NASS is doing right now to gather information for October's crop progress report, which comes out on the 11th of the...
Image courtesy of the Iowa Pork Producers Association.Ron Birkenholz handles communications for the Iowa Pork Producers Association; he explains why many pork producers have and will continue to use gestation stalls, and why the pork industry will continue to fight...
Iowa Ag Secretary Bill Northey explains why the bacon shortage you might've heard about on the news is an outright fabrication.http://iowaagribusinessradionetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/NortheyBaconForWeb.mp3
Image courtesy of the Iowa Pork Producers Association.On Tuesday, CEO and President of the Humane Society of the United States, Wayne Pacelle, announced his candidacy for a seat on the board of directors at Tyson Foods, Inc. While he faces an uphill battle to convince...
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As part of a two-day tour orchestrated by the Iowa Corn Growers Association, bloggers from across the country toured Iowa to see agriculture firsthand. Carrie Fields is a blogger from Montana who runs Fields of Cake talks about her philosophy on blogging and what kind...
