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2025 World Pork Expo right around the corner
The 2025 World Pork Expo is right around the corner, set for early June in Des Moines, Iowa, and it promises to once again bring together pork producers, industry leaders, and ag enthusiasts from across the country. National Pork Producers Council President Duane Stateler, a pork producer from Ohio, says the Expo is a one-of-a-kind opportunity to showcase innovation, connect with fellow producers, and discuss key issues facing the pork industry. Stateler gives us a preview of this year’s...
House Ag Chair unhappy with Brazil regarding U.S. ethanol
The Brazilian government?s tariff rate quota that placed a 20 percent duty on American ethanol imports exceeding 198 million gallons ended on August 31. Government officials there have yet to announce plans for the future of the U.S.-Brazil trade relationship. If the...
IPPA fighting alongside producers
First, a trade war between the world's two largest economies. Then a global health pandemic. Disruptions caused within recent years have put America's livestock producers under a great deal of pressure. We review measures being taken to assist producers during times...
Secretary Perdue uses disaster declaration on 18 Iowa counties
Yesterday, United States Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue was in Iowa to survey damage from drought and the derecho storm and to talk to producers about conservation, aquaculture, and more. While at a luncheon put on by the Iowa Corn Growers Association, he brought...
Ethanol production leveling, down 13% from pre-COVID levels
Recent federal data analyzed by the Renewable Fuels Association for the week ending August 28, ethanol production eased one percent. Production remained nine percent below the same week in 2019 due to the continuing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The four-week...
Extension reviews long-term tillage & crop rotation studies
Iowa State University Extension and Outreach continued its virtual series of field days Thursday morning. In part four, extension staff provided an overview of long-term tillage and crop rotation studies. Extension field agronomist Angie Rieck-Hinz says these...
DNR launches Iowa Deer Exchange
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources has launched a new program that connects hunters with other Iowans who want venison.Mick Klemesrud with the DNR says the Iowa Deer Exchange allows hunters who want to keep hunting a way to provide high quality, lean protein...
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Consumer price index continues to increase
The Consumer Price Index increased 0.8 percent in November after rising 0.9 percent in October. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released the data Friday. Over the last 12 months, the all-items index increased 6.8 percent before seasonal adjustment.The food index...
Opening Market Podcast – Greg McBride Allendale 12-13-21
Today the markets are focused on the dollar, exports, and inflation. Greg McBride of Allendale joins Dustin to talk about the effects these have on producers and consumers.
Iowa Farm Bureau members encouraged to keep telling their story
During the recent Iowa Farm Bureau Annual Meeting, members were able to become educated on different topics in managing their operations for the future, as well as strengthening their rural communities. They also received an update as to where things are in the seat...
Closing Market Podcast 12-10-2021
Special Guest: Jerry Gidell with Midland Research in Chicago
Axne has mixed reaction over EPA announcement
Iowa Third District Congresswoman Cindy Axne had mixed feelings over the EPA?s Renewable Volume Obligations announcement this past week.In an interview with IARN affiliate KMA, Axne said the RVOs set for 2022 are putting the biofuels industry on the right path. The...
