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NFU urges White House and Congress to quickly deliver relief for family farmers
National Farmers Union (NFU) today sent letters to President Trump and Congressional leaders urging immediate action to provide economic relief for family farmers and ranchers facing worsening financial conditions. NFU emphasized that aid should reach family farm operations that need it most, and for parallel efforts to rebuild fair markets and curb corporate consolidation in agriculture. "Family farmers and ranchers face severe economic challenges and a deepening crisis if they do not receive...
Organic farmers look to increase trust in their label
Agriculture comes with a set of challenges, no matter what arena you are in. We have to deal with misunderstanding, misinformation, and outright lies about what it is we do. No one in agriculture is immune to it. While organic products are sometimes at odds with more...
What are ag bankers looking at in the next Farm Bill?
As conversations over the 2023 Farm Bill intensify in the coming months, all corners of the farming economy will watch the debate very closely for a variety of reasons. But what about the ag lending community? Ed Elfmann, Sr. Vice President for Ag and Rural Banking...
Selecting the correct seed for your operation
The Iowa Ag Expo was held in Des Moines last week with hundreds of exhibitors on hand to highlight the latest and greatest in the agriculture industry to the thousands of show attendees. While at the Iowa Events Center, the Iowa Agribusiness Radio Network had a chance...
U.S. pork seeing growing demand in Latin America
A trade team from the National Pork Board, assisted by staff from the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF), toured retail locations as well as expanding transportation and cold storage facilities during a recent mission to Panama and Colombia. USMEF Chair-elect Randy...
Iowa farmers react to Brazilian farming trip
On my recent trip to Brazil, hosted by Commstock Investments, I had the chance to travel with a few Iowa farmers who came along on the trip to see what there was to learn about agriculture in Brazil. Having that perspective of being in the second largest Ag state in...
Grassley, Fischer, Wyden, Tester reintroduce cattle market reform bill
Senator Chuck Grassley and a bipartisan group of Senators last week introduced the bipartisan Cattle Price Discovery and Transparency Act of 2023. Joining Grassley was fellow Republican Deb Fischer of Nebraska, and Democrats Ron Wyden of Oregon and Jon Tester of...
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Climate smart commodity grants available for crop and pig farmers
Pork producers in Iowa, Minnesota, and Missouri have a grant opportunity in sustainability assisting in climate smart agriculture practices. Jamie Burr, the chief sustainability officer at the National Pork Board, said this grant is focused on a variety of practices...
Drones becoming increasingly prominent in agriculture
It's always amazing to see who stops by the Iowa Agribusiness Radio Network tent at the Iowa State Fair. One of them is Paul Merdy, a high schooler from the Conrad area where he and a friend started Merst Precision Application, a drone custom spraying and application...
Grassley says dispute settlement panel with Mexico necessary
The dispute between the United States and Mexico over genetically modified corn has reached the next stage of the formal process to resolve issues between trade partners.Last Thursday the United States Trade Representative’s office formally requested a dispute...
ISF vendors donate 12,000 pounds of leftover food to food banks
Sixteen Iowa State Fair vendors have donated 12,113 pounds of unused food to Food Bank of Iowa at the close of this year’s fair. That’s nearly 5,000 pounds more than last year!Among the food collected by FBOI staff and volunteers on Aug. 21, some was delivered...
Representative Nunn responds to concerns with EATS Act
Before the Iowa State Fair, we talked with the Organization for Competitive Markets about concerns they were sharing with the EATS Act. This has caused some producers and organizations to fire back that these claims are being made by groups led or influenced by...
