Energy

Two Iowa State University initiatives are co-hosting the ISU Innovation Prize on March 30-31. The ISU Pappajohn Center for Entrepreneurship and the ISU Agricultural Entrepreneurship Initiative are accepting participants to pitch in three categories: Agtech, Edtech and Global …

With crop prices depressed, the best solution for a struggling farm economy would be allowing expansion of 15 percent ethanol-gasoline blends, the leader and founder of one of the world’s largest ethanol companies told the …

The city of West Des Moines is offering discount trees to residents to try to replace trees lost to the emerald ash borer, an invasive pest that kills ash trees by cutting off their food …

Reuters reports that U.S. Sens Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst have joined other Corn Belt Republicans to ask President Donald Trump for a meeting to fight a move to cut the costs of the biofuels industry …

Reuters reports that importers are buying U.S. corn as a faster clip than at any time since the mid-1990s. That’s due in part to the lower stocks in Latin America that resulted from a worsening drought. …

Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig said increased biosecurity efforts at Iowa turkey, egg and chicken farms should help the state cope with the threat of low pathogenic avian influenza found in Missouri and Texas …