Agribusiness

Discussing the young adult novel Those Pink Mountain Nights and the Ag 450 Farm at Iowa State University

Auctions — a marketplace for knick knacks, farm land and everything in between — are often also gathering events for rural communities. That’s changing as more auctions go online.

Iowa is the latest state to legalize the sale of raw milk, which comes directly from cows without any pasteurization. While nearly every Midwestern state allows such sales, some health experts caution there are health risks to drinking it.

Polk County Judge Scott Rosenberg said the DNR used “illogical interpretations and applications to approve a nutrient management plan for the feedlot" when approving Supreme Beef's manure management plan near the headwaters of a prized trout stream.

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has announced $40 million in grants investing in conservation efforts.

The Farm Crisis of the 1980s dramatically changed agriculture and life in Iowa forever. Iowa State University Distinguished Professor of History Pamela Riney-Kehrberg chronicles the crisis in her 2022 book When A Dream Dies: Agriculture, Iowa, and the Farm Crisis of the 1980s.

A House bill that would have restricted the use of eminent domain for carbon capture pipelines appeared to be dead for the year Thursday after the Iowa Senate failed to advance it ahead of a legislative deadline.

On this episode of River to River, a look at planting season in light of the new United Nations climate change report and a frank conversation with former state Rep. Phyllis Thede.

Sioux Center in northwest Iowa will construct a pipeline to bring in natural gas from local dairy farmers.

The Farm Crisis of the 1980s dramatically changed agriculture and life in Iowa forever.