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Secretary Naig announces 9 Choose Iowa Butchery Innovation Grants
Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig announced today nine Choose Iowa Butchery Innovation Grant recipients to expand small-scale meat processing capacity within Iowa. The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship says in a press release that these cost-share grants, totaling $355,000, are being awarded to nine small businesses across the state in need of essential equipment and facility improvements. Projects include the addition of new smokehouses, installation of freezer...
China facing a difficult path ahead as COVID restrictions are lifted
China has recently ended some of its most severe restrictions in a move away from the country?s ?Zero-COVID? policy. The moves should open new opportunities for U.S. red meat as restaurant and food retail eventually rebound. However, Joel Haggard, U.S. Meat Export...
Iowa farmland prices jump again
Iowa State University?s annual Land Value Survey shows farmland values are averaging $11,411 an acre in 2022, a 17 percent rise from last year. ISU says farmers have a lot more cash on hand, and supply chain issues led to a shortage of equipment, so the money...
Get your dairy herd dewormed soon
Animal health is a big issue for all livestock producers. Each animal comes with their own set of issues that they face. Poultry is currently dealing with HPAI, and hogs are looking at PRRS & staving off African Swine Fever. Cattle have their issues as well, including...
2023 Farm Bill will likely be evolutionary, not revolutionary
With the current lame duck session, the 2023 Farm Bill process has been put off until the new year. Will Stafford, CHS Washington representative, said the writing process should pick up again at the beginning of the year.Stafford said they likely won?t make any huge...
Vilsack announces second round of funding for USDA?s Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities Program
Recently, Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack announced the second round of project funding under USDA?s Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities Program. Vilsack explained how the second round of funding is different from the first.?We realize that we needed to have smaller...
McKinsey & company release global farmer survey results
Despite economic disturbances, high crop prices are giving farmers around the world cause for cautious optimism, according to a new survey. Global consultancy McKinsey & Company this week released the results of its global survey of 5,500 farmers from nine countries....
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Soybean farmers encouraged to vote in ISA director elections
The Iowa Soybean Association (ISA) is driven to deliver insights, tools, activities and information to improve the competitiveness and profitability of the state?s soybean growers. This is a feat only made possible by the collective voice and checkoff investment of...
Fertilizer prices continue to slide
It was less than a year ago that we were worried about how we were going to be able to afford to put fertilizer on the fields in the fall or this spring and grow a crop in 2023. How were we going to break even when some prices were topping over $1,500 per ton for...
Using MLV vaccines in swine herds
Modified-live virus (MLV) vaccines have been available for decades, and they?ve proven to be especially critical in the swine industry for PRRS control. Dr. JD Fiechtner, senior account veterinarian for swine at Boehringer Ingelheim, explained how MLV vaccines work...
Fast and reliable direct-to-farm delivery a powerful tool for growers
Farmers Business Network (FBN?), the global AgTech platform and farmer-to-farmer network was launched in 2014 and has continued to build up its logistics and delivery infrastructure in the near decade since. The expanded delivery network offers 3-day delivery or less...
Secretary Naig encourages farmers to utilize state?s hay and straw directory
The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship offers a free, searchable online directory to connect Iowa farmers who have hay or straw to sell with buyers who are interested in purchasing it.Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig is encouraging farmers or...
