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Agriculture Secretary Bill Northey this week asked for $500,000 for his department’s preparation and response for animal diseases such as avian flu. He also backed a water-quality plan passed by the Iowa House of Representatives …
Cedar Rapids Gazette: Iowa and Missouri farm operators are paying the workers they hire more than the national average. Farms in the two states directly hired 27,000 workers during the reference week of July 10 through …
Des Moines Register: Council Bluffs officials are trying to determine how far invasive zebra mussels have spread from one of the basins where the city draws drinking water from. The Daily Nonpareil reports the mussels were …
Des Moines Register: Muscatine County is removing large large ash trees on the courthouse lawn after an infestation by the emerald ash borer. Damage caused by the beetle kills the trees and will leave the limbs …
A northeast Iowa electric co-op plans to change its net-metering policy in a way that could hamper efforts to expand rooftop solar energy installations in several counties, Midwest Energy News reported. As of Jan. 1, the Allamakee …
Iowa Public Radio: Corn and soybeans weren’t the only bumper crops in Iowa this year. State Agriculture Department officials say pumpkin production was the best it’s been for many seasons.…
Quad-City Times: Exelon Corp. would keep open its financially struggling Clinton, Ill., and Quad Cities nuclear power plants for at least a decade under a forthcoming version of its proposed energy policy overhaul.…
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources, facing falling revenue, won’t accept applications for a program meant to encourage recycling and waste diversion projects to cut wastes at landfills. Ironically, the program is paid for with landfill fees, …
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