Volunteers are needed to help compile what’s known as Iowa’s Bumble Bee Atlas, an effort to gauge the state’s populations of the vital pollinators. Stephanie Shepherd, a wildlife diversity biologist with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, says...
One of the highest blends of biodiesel is now available at a retailer in central Iowa. B99 contains just a tenth of a percent of petroleum-based diesel and it’s being sold at the Pilot Travel Center in Urbandale. Dave Walton, a soybean farmer from Wilton, said...
The company that operates pork processing facilities in Marshalltown and Ottumwa plans to build a new sausage-making plant in Perry. JBS USA has announced it will spend $135 million on the Perry project and plans to begin making sausage at the plant late next year....
Wet weather in the past week stalled what had been fast planting progress for Iowa farmers. The U.S.D.A. weekly report shows corn planting increased by only 4% to 95% complete. It is still six days ahead of last year and two days ahead of the five-year average. Bean...
The Iowa Supreme Court today ruled the families of four employees of the Tyson meatpacking plant in Waterloo who allegedly died after contracting COVID-19 at the plant can continue a lawsuit. The Supreme Court ruling says families cannot sue the company itself, but...
The manager of an ethanol plant near Council Bluffs says a bill that would set new restrictions on the proposed Summit Carbon Solutions pipeline in Iowa would also impact his company’s plan connect to a Nebraska pipeline. Mike Jerke, CEO of Southwest Iowa...
