April is Prevent Child Abuse Awareness Month and it’s focused on making Iowa a safer place where children can thrive. Sharon Miller is executive director of Prevent Child Abuse Iowa, based in Des Moines. “This year’s theme is powered by hope and strengthened by prevention,” Miller says. “It’s really around what we can do to […] View Full Story
A powerful low-pressure system over the central Plains will reach the upper Great Lakes region early Thursday before drifting across eastern Canada. Heavy, wet snow will fall Tuesday from parts of the Dakotas into the upper Great Lakes region, with accumulations potentially complicating ice storm recovery, especially in northern Wisconsin. Meanwhile, weather hazards across the […] The post Another major Spring storm organizes across the Heartland; a heavy rain event follows for some appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story
A powerful low-pressure system over the central Plains will reach the upper Great Lakes region early Thursday before drifting across eastern Canada. Heavy, wet snow will fall Tuesday from parts of the Dakotas into the upper Great Lakes region, with accumulations potentially complicating ice storm recovery, especially in northern Wisconsin. Meanwhile, weather hazards across the […] The post A major Spring storm to organize across the Heartland; a heavy rain event follows for some appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story
Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook calls for the likelihood of above-normal temperatures in southern Florida, the northern High Plains, and much of the West, while cooler-than-normal conditions will cover most areas east of a line from New Mexico to the eastern Dakotas. Meanwhile, near- or below-normal precipitation across most of the country should […] The post A weather pattern change ahead to colder and drier throughout the Heartland appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story
The USDA is ending two local food programs this month, which is a financial blow to some eastern Iowa farmers. The programs helped connect regional food producers with food banks and schools statewide. Funding for the Local Food Purchase Assistance and Local Food for Schools programs was approved under the Biden administration, but is now […] View Full Story
Insurance company executives and agents who sell insurance gathered at the Iowa Capitol yesterday to urge legislators to pass one of the governor’s priorities. The bill is a collection of ideas developed in response to last year’s natural disasters. For example, it would require insurance umpires, appraisers and independent adjusters to be licensed by the […] View Full Story
About a dozen people rallied outside the Iowa Capitol Tuesday, criticizing a bill shielding some farm chemical makers from lawsuits alleging product labels failed to warn of cancer risks. The bill narrowly won approval in the Iowa Senate last week and is eligible for consideration in the House. Ava Auen-Ryan of Iowa Citizens for Community […] View Full Story
Spring weather is preventing many producers from taking delivery of spring inputs. Paul Kwiatkowski with Jaymar in central Wisconsin tells Brownfield most fertilizer and seed orders are in. “Everything is ready to go if we can get the weather to cooperate.” Kwiatkowski says the recent snow and rain has kept the seed and fertilizer trucks parked. […] The post Weather slowing down deliveries appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story
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