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Sensors in space could improve our understanding of whether crops in the Corn Belt have enough water to grow. Iowa State University researchers have gotten help from a NASA grant of more than half a million dollars to study this.
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A new analysis says converting more land to grow crops for biofuels may harm wildlife protected under the Endangered Species Act.
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Researchers at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Animal Disease Center in Ames have been using American Rescue Plan funding to see how different coronavirus variants operate in deer over time.
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As an invasive tick species spreads westward across the U.S., so does the threat of a new disease in cattle. Researchers are sounding the alarm.
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A study done for the ethanol industry predicts dire consequences if carbon dioxide pipelines don’t go forward in Iowa but do in other states.
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The latest case of bird flu in Iowa and the first of 2023 was found in a Buena Vista County commercial turkey facility. More than 27,000 turkeys are being destroyed to contain the spread of the virus.
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Many ag industry and farm worker advocacy groups had high hopes that farm labor reform would make it through Congress last year. Now the future is murky.
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Iowa Agricultural Mitigation will use the $684,000 grant and matching funds to close the last two remaining agricultural drainage wells in Wright County.
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Sioux Center in northwest Iowa will construct a pipeline to bring in natural gas from local dairy farmers.
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After several years of negotiations, the Farm Bureau and John Deere have signed a right to repair agreement.