animals

An NPR Midwest Newsroom journalist takes a look into a program that gets donated venison into food pantries. The investigation raises questions about the presence of lead shot in donated food and its impact on consumers.

The Iowa Department of Ag has released three poultry sites from quarantine restrictions related to bird flu.

The highly pathogenic avian flu spreading through Iowa is threatening commercial and backyard flocks. This year’s lethal strain is also putting some wild birds at risk.

State and federal agriculture officials confirmed a case of bird flu in a commercial flock of just under 54,000 turkeys.

The USDA's "Beagle Brigade" searches for prohibited agricultural items at airports and in cargo that could carry animal diseases onto U.S. soil. But the dogs' training center is funded through traveler user fees that tend to fluctuate. Ernst is co-sponsoring legislation that will give the center more stable funding.

Iowa and U.S. agriculture officials have confirmed bird flu in the state. The virus was detected in a non-commercial backyard poultry flock in western Iowa’s Pottawattamie County.

Over the last century, the treatment of animals in captivity has dramatically changed from holding cells for fauna to environments designed with their behaviors in the wild in mind.

Iowa State University Extension and Outreach is offering resources to cow-calf producers who were hard hit by this year’s drought.

We return to the conversation with a cardiologist and animal behaviorist about the connection between human and veterinary medicine. And then hear from a scholar about the life and legacy of Alexander Clark, an African American Iowan who won the first successful school desegregation case in the history of the United States.

Cattle producers see hope in a new beef processing plant coming to southwest Iowa in 2023. Ranchers have often complained about limited choices when it’s time to sell their beef cattle.