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Sioux City Journal: Sam Clovis, a northwest Iowan who has been questioned in connection with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into alleged meddling by Russia in the 2016 presidential campaign, today withdrew his nomination to a …
Des Moines Register: DowDuPont plans to find a buyer for its ethanol plant in Nevada, Iowa, a 30 million-gallon, $225 million operation that uses corncobs, husks and stalks to produce the biofuel. DowDuPont has shuttered operations …
The Iowa Legislature will be under heavy pressure to revisit a state law designed to give local officials a nonbinding say over where hog confinements are built, the Mason City Globe-Gazette reported. The Worth County Board …
MidAmerican Energy Co. has chosen a site in Poweshiek County for the third part of its Wind XI project, a development of up to 170 turbines. Construction should be done by December 2018. The turbines …
The World Health Organization’s cancer agency dismissed and edited findings from a draft of its review of the weedkiller glyphosate that suggested there was no link between the Roundup ingredient and cancer in laboratory animals, …
After a new federal report found Iowa has 5,000 previously unreported livestock operations, the Iowa Chapter of the nonprofit national environmental group Sierra Club called for a moratorium on new hog confinements.
The proposed moratorium …
KCCI-TV: The powerful wind last week did more than just blow your leaves around. Wind on Oct. 23 and Oct. 24 blew hard enough for wind turbines to provide energy to meet all of MidAmerican Energy’s …
Iowa Public Radio reports that depressed prices for conventional corn and soybeans have led to a boost in the $40 billion organic farming industry, especially in Iowa and Colorado. One southeast Nebraska farm is selling organic …
Former U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will discuss threats to agriculture from climate change Nov. 16 at Iowa State University’s Memorial Union. Vilsack, the former Iowa governor, now is president and CEO of the U.S. …
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