The volume of U.S. pork exports is down about 9% compared to this time a year ago and it’s not just trade tensions with China that caused the drop. “While China’s a major market that is significantly down, we’re fewer sales into Mexico, South...
Vietnamese officials visiting Iowa have signed agreements to buy more agricultural products from the Midwest, including Iowa. Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig said the five agreements represent $800 million worth of soybeans, corn, dried distillers grain and...
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....
A coalition of over 100 ag groups is expressing concern about a soon-to-be-released federal report on how chemicals and other factors may be contributing to rising levels of childhood diseases. The “Make America Healthy Again” or MAHA report will come from...
A ceremonial groundbreaking today in Boone for a plant that will produce Daisy Brand sour cream and cottage cheese. The $676 million project will eventually employ over 250 people. “It is our most ambitious project yet,” said Ben Sokolsky, president of...
