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ISU CALS News: Change in leadership for CALS Career Services
Plans are in place to continue offering students the high level of support the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Career Services office has become known for, following the recent retirement of two long-time employees. Mike Gaul has served as director of CALS Career Services since 1998, and Lois Benning joined as the career services coordinator in 2001. Gaul retired on June 12, and Benning retired on June 2. “For thousands of Iowa State University students, Mike Gaul has been...
Grassley urges DOJ to continue beef industry investigation
Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley is urging Attorney General Merrick Garland to continue a U.S. Department of Justice investigation into the nation?s four biggest meatpackers.This week, Grassley and several of his Senate colleagues sent a letter requesting the DOJ provide...
Rain showers keep Iowa drought coverage status quo
No changes were reported for Iowa on the U.S. Drought Monitor released Thursday morning.Iowa State Climatologist Dr. Justin Glisan says the state received enough rains over the last week to keep drought conditions from worsening. Northwest Iowa remains the driest part...
Iowa Cattlemen?s Association calls for investigation into price manipulation
Price manipulation in the beef industry has been a hot topic for almost two years now. A few unexpected events affected the price of cattle at the time, but the price disparity has yet to correct itself in the months after these ?black swan events.? The Holcomb, KS...
New crop corn sales ?on fire,? market analyst says
A market analyst says new crop corn sales are on fire, while soybean exports have ?dried up.?The U.S. Export Sales Report on Thursday shows weekly corn sales at 4.34 million metric tons for the week ending May 13th. Allendale commodity broker Greg McBride says the...
Court vacates prior administration?s midnight refinery exemptions
The Renewable Fuels Association today hailed an order from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit vacating three small refinery exemptions granted by EPA to Sinclair the day before President Joe Biden was inaugurated. The court?s decision came promptly after...
NWS outlook shows rain for Iowa and Northern Plains
The National Weather Service?s outlook for the rest of the month shows rain chances for Iowa and a good majority of the Northern Plains.USDA Meteorologist Brad Rippey takes a look at what?s expected across the country as the month of May winds down.?The hot weather...
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Senator Ernst wants shipping restrictions lifted for aid to Ukraine
Since Russia?s invasion of Ukraine, most of the global community has been doing what it can to help the Ukrainian people, without bringing on World War 3. The United States is among these countries. However, there are certain restrictions in place on the shipment of...
Dairy industry wants retaliatory tariffs on Canada
What do you know? Canada isn?t playing nicely with the American dairy industry once again, using loopholes and double-talk to keep our products out of their stores.You might want to ask me, ?But Dustin didn?t we address the dairy situation when we negotiated the USMCA...
Bayer Plus gives producers the advantage in 2022
As we are underway with the 2022 growing season, we are obviously looking for any advantage we can get, whether that is in the fields or our wallets. The trick is to get an advantage that fills your bins and your wallets.Enter the Bayer Plus Program.Kim Helgen is the...
What should farmers know about the fuel situation?
Driving by any gas station lately becomes as frightening as any horror movie we can see. Prices of regular unleaded are back above that four-dollar level, with diesel above five dollars. That is putting a pinch on everybody?s pocketbook. But what about the farmers who...
South American Weather and Crop Update (5-18-22)
Once again, the dry weather conditions in South America have both positive and negative consequences. The dryness is helping harvest progress move right along, but it is also creating some yield concerns in Brazil. Allendale commodity broker Greg McBride said that...
