Former Iowa Governor Terry Branstad is retiring from his latest post as president of the World Food Prize. Branstad, the nation’s longest serving governor, resigned in 2017 to serve as U.S. Ambassador to China. He left that post in September of 2020 and, in early 2023, became the president of the Des Moines-based World Food […] View Full Story
Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley says the allegations swirling around President-elect Trump’s pick for attorney general seem like a replay of what happened in 2018 to one of Trump’s U.S. Supreme Court nominees. Grassley, a Republican, was chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee when the committee advanced Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination for the nation’s highest court — […] View Full Story
When natural disasters strike, many producers worry they won’t be able to continue farming, but there are standing disaster programs available through USDA’s Farm Service Agency that can provide some assistance. USDA’s Steven Peterson tells Brownfield they’ve made some adjustments to programs to help producers, especially after the two recent hurricanes. The post USDA adjusts disaster programs to help producers appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story
