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Companies receive investment through the Radicle Corn Value Chain Challenge
Radicle Growth and the supporting corn growers’ associations are thrilled to announce investments in two companies identified through the Radicle Corn Value Chain Challenge, sponsored by US Corn Farmers. The Radicle Challenge set out to invest a minimum of US $1.5M in start-up and growth companies worldwide whose innovative technologies and business models create new uses for corn and long-term sustainable demand for corn. These companies are expected to develop new uses for corn that...
Grassley pleased Biden EPA backs ethanol in waiver case
Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley recently said he?s encouraged the Environmental Protection Agency is siding with the ethanol industry in a case that goes before the Supreme Court later this month.The industry and the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals say the EPA can only...
Trade missions go virtual for Iowa officials
Iowa officials have had to conduct trade missions virtually during the COVID-19 pandemic.Iowa commodity groups and government officials spend a lot of time promoting the state?s agricultural products to important trade partners each year. However, since last spring,...
Now is the perfect time to give your operation a ?stress test?
Commodity prices are good, we all see that. While you are hopefully taking advantage of these good prices, we are all aware that inputs are also going up. This means that your margins are still being squeezed, albeit not as hard as they were in the years past. Despite...
Nominations open for 2021 Iowa’s Best Breaded Pork Tenderloin
The breaded pork tenderloin is a sense of pride for many Iowans, and their appetite for perfection is once again needed to find the state?s juiciest, most flavorful sandwich.Today, the Iowa Pork Producers Association (IPPA) began accepting nominations for its 19th...
New FCC app tests rural broadband speeds
A new app from the Federal Communications Commission encourages members of the public to help test broadband speeds across the country.According to Jean Kiddoo ? Chair of the FCC Broadband Data Task Force ? the agency has put together an app for mobile phones to help...
House approves meat locker grant program
Small Iowa meat lockers looking to expand have grant money available thanks to a bill approved by the Iowa House.The House unanimously passed a bill that creates a Butchery Innovation and Revitalization fund to be administered by the Iowa Economic Development...
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Midday Market Podcast- Naomi Blohm TFM- 4-28-22
A neutral U.S. Export Sales Report means there's not much news for the markets today. However, both corn and soybeans are seeing great prices still. Riley Smith talks with Naomi Blohm of Total Farm Marketing.
Cattle Contract Library may be ready first of year
As hearings have been happening on Capitol Hill concerning the future and the need for cattle market reformation, other tools to help farmers are closer to coming online.The Cattle Contract Library is a million-dollar pilot program that is aimed at giving producers...
Vilsack authorizes additional CCC funds for HPAI response
On Wednesday, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack approved Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) funding to assist USDA?s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) response to highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI).The virus has been confirmed in 29 states,...
Status of cattle market reform: House Ag Committee
Yesterday, we discussed the hearing held in the Senate Ag Committee chambers about the situation with marketing in the cattle industry. The strains on some producers and the grip that the ?Big-4? meatpackers (Cargill, JBS, National Beef, and Tyson) have on the...
U.S. Ambassador to China offers honest look at U.S.-China relationship
If there was one takeaway from last week?s U.S.-China High Level Agricultural Dialogue, it?s that the relationship between the two countries is among the most important for both sides. Speaking virtually from his station overseas, U.S. Ambassador to China Nicholas...
