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Cattle industry monitoring human screwworm case
A human case of New World screwworm was reported by the Centers for Disease Control after being discovered earlier this month. Colin Woodall, CEO of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, said the cattle industry will monitor the situation, but this isn’t a risk to the U.S. livestock industry. This is not a completely isolated occurrence. Woodall said there have been cases in the last couple of years in the U.S. Woodall said the protocols for protecting humans and livestock from NWS worked...
Soybean crop update for north central & northeast Iowa
While northwest Iowa has been dealing with drought conditions, north central and northeast Iowa have mostly received the rains they?ve needed to have a good soybean crop. LG Seeds Agronomist Jed Norman said they have a pretty great crop considering how late the beans...
Scout now for corn rootworm
Corn rootworm isn?t called the billion-dollar pest for no reason and as we are moving right along this growing season, now is the time where corn rootworm is starting to make its appearance and cause the most damage in fields, so farmers need to be on the...
USDA helping issue child food benefits for summer
The USDA is partnering with states and territories across the country to work with urgency to provide food benefits for the summer months to eligible children. As of July 8, 27 states and territories, including Puerto Rico, are set up to provide these benefits to an...
NMPF grows impatient with slow changes to shipping woes
It has been almost a month since President Biden signed the Ocean Shipping Reform Act into law. Many ag groups supported this bill because it was designed to help logjams at ports, ease supply chain issues, and increase transparency and accountability.While the ink...
Pork has positive effect on economy
Tough economic times have hit the whole country hard. Prices of food and fuel have risen and put many people in a tough situation. Just yesterday we received information of an increases in requests for food assistance in the state of Iowa, according to the Iowa Food...
Hopes are for a permanent E15 fix by summer?s end
We have been going around in circles for a few years over the ability to obtain E15 year-round sales. We had a solution back in 2019 but we all know about the court battle that rescinded the Trump EPA work-around. This means it is up to Congress to make a decision...
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Hinson helps pen letter to EPA for year-round E15
Recently, Iowa 2nd District Congresswoman Ashley Hinson joined in sending a bipartisan letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in order to spur some action on year-round E15. Last year, we saw the summertime moratorium get lifted, which was great to...
Helping new farmers to acquire their own farmland
To a new farmer, acquiring farmland without any prior family connections or in-roads to get started can be difficult. The barrier to entry as a new farmer can be quite daunting. Farmland and farm equipment can be very expensive and difficult to acquire for a farmer...
The impact of the Russia-Ukraine War on U.S. markets one year later
It?s been one year since Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine and started a war that many thought would only last days or weeks. When the Russian invasion first began, commodity prices shot up significantly. However, Karl Setzer, commodity risk analyst with AgriVisor,...
Look for farm incomes to decrease in 2023
The old saying is that ?what goes up, must come down.? This is something that we have been keeping in the back of our minds ever since we started to see farm prices climb higher just a few years ago. We knew it probably wouldn?t last. Eventually, there would have to...
Mad cow disease found in Brazil
Brazil?s agriculture and livestock ministry says beef exports to China are temporarily on hold after a case of mad cow disease was confirmed in one of the northern states called Para. Reuters says the suspension is part of an animal health agreement made between the...
