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While Successful Farming was reporting this year’s soybean crop will likely set a record — and bring the lowest season-average price in 12 years — Kirk Leeds was sitting in his office at the Iowa Soybean Association …
The Iowa Environmental Council on Wednesday announced a successful legal action to protect the water quality of Yeader Creek, which flows into Easter Lake in Des Moines. The environmental coalition filed a petition for judicial …
The summertime “dead zone’’ off the Louisiana coast — largely tied to Midwestern crop fertilizers — this year was the fourth-smallest since annual measurements began in 1985, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reported. The large expanse of low …
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded a three-year grant totaling $480,044 to the Healthiest State Initiative to expand Double Up Food Bucks. The state’s produce incentive program provides fresh fruits and vegetables to low-income …
A new report by advocacy groups shows that Iowa’s clean energy industry now employs more than 30,000 people, buoyed by a 4.5 percent rise in energy efficiency jobs. Clean Energy Trust’s third annual report, in cooperation …
When you are among the farmers who have made Iowa the nation’s top producer of hogs and you read that a jury has ordered Smithfield Foods to pay $473.5 million to six neighbors of its …
Ames-based Renewable Energy Group turned a year-ago loss into $33 million in net income in the second quarter, the company reported. The 78 cents per diluted share in net income was up from 90 cents …
MidAmerican Energy Co. officials say the utility has moved swiftly to shift away from some coal production, despite environmental groups’ contention this week that the Warren Buffett-owned company isn’t moving quickly enough. “MidAmerican Energy’s track …
Two national farm leaders called for federal protection for large-scale hog confinements such as the Smithfield operation that faces a federal jury’s order to pay $473.5 million to neighbors of North Carolina hog farms who …
The Iowa Environmental Council and the Environmental Law & Policy Center have asked the Iowa Utilities Board to require MidAmerican Energy Co. to retire coal capacity equal to the capacity from its proposed Wind XII …
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