State and federal officials say bird flu has struck a flock of pheasant and chickens in Kossuth County. It’s the first time this year that bird flu has been confirmed in an Iowa poultry operation. A spokesman for the Iowa Department of Agriculture says the flock...
Chris Jones, a retired University of Iowa researcher who wrote a book titled “The Swine Republic,” is running to be Iowa’s next secretary of agriculture. “Iowa deserves better from agriculture in terms of the environmental outcomes,”...
Some farmers in Dickinson County who were enrolled in one of the USDA’s largest commodity support programs for the 2024 crop year believe they were significantly underpaid. Scott Titterington, who farms near Milford, says they’re holding a meeting next...
Governor Reynolds says the State of Iowa will participate in the federal program that gives low income families with school aged children $40 a month during the summer to buy food. Starting January 1, the USDA has given Iowa permission to prohibit food stamps from...
USDA Rural Development has awarded a total of four-point-seven million dollars to support projects at two hospitals and for three municipal water systems. The Wayne County Hospital in Corydon is planning to build an addition for a more modern dialysis unit and is...
