Agriculture is on full display at the Iowa State Fair. You can come down to the barns and see the cattle, hogs, pigs, sheep, and poultry. You can go to the animal birthing center and see baby animals that have been born recently or even born at the show. However, one...
The Iowa State Dairy Science club gives Iowa State fairgoers the opportunity to learn about the dairy industry and allolws them to get hands on at its ?I Milked a Cow? exhibit inside the cattle barn.Iowa State University junior Abigail Rogers says that the exhibit can...
Many people seem to think otherwise, but agriculture and technology are closely connected. You can see that on full display here at the Iowa State Fair, with displays from both Meta and Google. The latter of the two recently made a hefty investment in the state of...
Fertilizer prices are high.Now, on to new business.As we are riding the second half of the Iowa State Fair, we also know that it won?t be long and the combines will hit the field, tillage will start to happen, and we will be setting the stage for next year?s growing...
The USDA released its World Ag Supply and Demand Estimates and updated Crop Production Reports last week. But there were a few surprises found within them.Founder, and president of Standard Grain, Joe Vaclavik, talks about the biggest surprise that was found in the...
Bayer announced the launch of ForGround, a farmer-first digital platform that will transform the way farms of all sizes can more easily make the transition to sustainable agricultural practices. ForGround offers growers tools, resources, discounts, as well as and the...
Every day is a good day to celebrate agriculture, but you can never have too many official days for it. Today was one of those days, as the Iowa Farm Bureau (IFB) celebrated Farm Bureau Day at the Iowa State Fair. IFB Personal Relations Manager Andrew Wheeler talked...
The Iowa Farmers Union is centrally located in the Varied Industries building at the 2022 Iowa State Fair. Deborah Bunka, Membership and Fundraising Director with the IFU, says that the state fair is a great opportunity to tell fairgoers about the Iowa Farmers Union...
Agronomists and farmers have had many challenges thrown at them throughout the years. One recent challenge that they are facing is climate change. As most of us know, this is something huge that needs multiple people working together to find a solution. Iowa State...
The Iowa State Fair is probably one of the greatest meetings of agriculture that there is in the state. All the commodity groups are here together and can talk about what they can do to help each other out, where they have common ground, where they have differences,...
