Agriculture

The Loess Hills Wildlife Management Area is implementing a long-term plan to promote and protect more diversity in its forests' species.

The Biden administration is looking to redefine what it means for a body of water to be included in the Waters of the United States, which could mean new regulations for farmers.

The farmer cooperative that runs the northernmost port along the Missouri River says it’s happy with how the facility has performed in its first shipping season.

Beef prices are rising at the grocery store, but Iowa cattle producers aren’t getting what they feel their cattle are worth from meatpackers. So they're hoping bipartisan bills in Congress will get them more leverage.

From Iowa to Oklahoma to Kansas, universities are working more closely with agribusiness in search of ways to pay for projects where tax dollars have become more scarce. Critics worry that agriculture schools might focus more on industry than the public interest.

Transportation and logistics issues within the supply chain have posed issues for every level of Iowa's dairy industry, from local farmers to large dairy processors.

TIAA-CREF invests heavily in farmland, so it paid a university to research it.

Large donors can put universities in potentially awkward positions when faculty conclusions conflict with the interests of those benefactors. Data collected by Harvest Public Media and Investigate Midwest show corporations have given at least $170 million to ag colleges in the past decade.

Iowa State University researchers found that the more poorly water drained from a field, the more nitrous oxide it belched into the air, but moderately-drained soils also emitted a lot of nitrous oxide.

The increased federal spending can partly be attributed to disaster assistance for flooding and wind-storms that damaged farmers' land.