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The U.S. Department of Agriculture is extending the deadline for the largest private land conservation program in the country, following a shortfall in...
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It’s a cold February afternoon, and Alvin Lee’s cows are hungry. He says he has to put three or four bales of hay out every other day, and he only has...
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Iowa’s senior U.S. Senator is criticizing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for granting more small refinery exemptions hours before President Joe Biden took office.
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Iowa’s senior U.S. senator is warning that any more small refinery environmental exemptions granted in the final days of the Trump presidency would badly harm the biofuels industry.
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Former Iowa governor Tom Vilsack may once again serve as agriculture secretary. President-elect Joe Biden tapped Vilsack, who served in this role for eight years under President Obama, on Thursday.
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The USDA is projecting higher incomes across farm businesses this year, mostly because of federal relief payments.
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The agriculture economy is recovering from pandemic impacts and the August derecho better than economists expected.
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It took a while for COVID-19 to hit rural Iowa. Now, the pandemic is hitting the state’s rural communities hard in many ways. As the pandemic drags on and gets worse, so may the strain of living under these unusual circumstances.
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A conversation on the damage that has been done to crops and rural infrastructure in Iowa from Derecho2020.