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Cedar Rapids Gazette: For the second time in less than a year, a federal court has halted enforcement of an Iowa law that backers say is needed to protect farms from deceptive trespassers but critics say …
Des Moines Register: With $767 million in payments, Iowa farmers are the biggest beneficiaries so far of President Donald Trump’s second bailout package for U.S. growers, meant to offset damage from ongoing trade disputes with China …
Cedar Rapids Gazette: Iowa’s county conservation district commissioners, many of whom are farmers, want the Iowa Legislature to pass a law against planting crops within 30 feet of streams. The Conservation Districts of Iowa isn’t the …
The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote soon on legislation to provide legal status to undocumented farmworkers and to modernize the H-2A agricultural guest worker program, Successful Farming reports. Some are calling it the first …
MidAmerican Energy Co. today announced plans to begin constructing publicly accessible electric vehicle fast-charging stations in five Iowa cities by the end of this year, and 13 more next year, including nearly a dozen “ultra-fast” …
The Pew Charitable Trusts this week examined Iowa’s response to major floods in 1993, 2008 and 2019 as examples of how best to leverage state and federal money to flood-proof areas frequently inundated by heavy rains and …
The Iowa Agriculture Literacy Foundation will award up to 175 grants to support the integration of agriculture into classroom instruction or after-school programs with an academic focus, the foundation announced this week. The Agriculture in …
Des Moines Register: Blaming the federal government for failing to support the industry, a South Dakota company said today that it will stop producing an environmentally friendly ethanol that’s made from corncobs, stalks and other crop …
Upgrades for Iowa’s growing wind industry are creating unexpected challenges as demolition crews bring 120-foot blades to regional landfills, the Cedar Rapids Gazette reports. Critics say hundreds of blades will land in dumps across Iowa and …
Des Moines Register: Despite President Donald Trump’s agriculture bailouts, Iowa farmers continue to see their financial condition erode, a cash crunch that had 44% of producers last year struggling to cover their bills, an Iowa State …
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