by Matt Kelley | Jan 26, 2023 | News
For the first time in about nine decades, the Iowa Pork Producers Association is being run by a woman. Trish Cook, of Buchanan County, was elected Tuesday at the organization’s annual meeting. Cook and her family run a farm near Winthrop that produces 32,000...
by O. Kay Henderson | Dec 30, 2022 | Education, News
Construction of the front end of a new Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory in Ames is scheduled conclude in 2023. Iowa State University President Wendy Wintersteen says 80% of the lab’s operations were not included in phase one of the project, however. “Phase...
by Radio Iowa Contributor | Dec 20, 2022 | News
Iowa State University Extension will host “Farm Couple Getaways” in Dubuque and Holstein in early 2023. Fred Hall, a dairy program specialist with ISU Extension, says the program began several years ago. “We started seeing high stress levels in farm...
by O. Kay Henderson | Nov 24, 2022 | News
Iowa State University ag economist Chad Hart says the recent sale of 73 acres of northwest Iowa farmland, for $30,000 an acre, indicates Iowa farmers are seeing fairly good profit margins. “At the same time, too, though — I would say that we’re also...
by Radio Iowa Contributor | Nov 4, 2022 | News
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that Carroll-based Region 12 Council of Governments had been selected to receive a $15 million grant from the new Meat and Poultry Intermediary Lending Program. Region Executive Director Rick Hunsaker says the goal is to...