Chris Jones, a retired University of Iowa researcher who wrote a book titled “The Swine Republic,” is running to be Iowa’s next secretary of agriculture. “Iowa deserves better from agriculture in terms of the environmental outcomes,” Jones said. Jones, a Democrat from Iowa City, currently leads the Driftless Water Defenders, a non-profit group focused on […] View Full Story
In this Managing for Profit, learn how a comprehensive soil test transforms uncertainty into opportunity, revealing exactly what fields need and, more importantly, what they don’t. Tune in for more. The post Smart Money Is On A Soil Test appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story
A bill on the fast track in the Iowa House would ban the use of eminent domain to seize property along the proposed Summit Carbon pipeline route. The bill cleared a House committee on a 19-2 vote yesterday afternoon and is eligible of debate in the full House next week. Republican Representative Steven Holt of […] View Full Story
Motorists in some Iowa cities can’t miss the fact that gasoline prices have risen more than 60-cents a gallon since New Year’s Day, but one expert says it appears to be more the exception than the rule. Brian Ortner, at AAA Iowa, chalks it up to isolated fluctuations in certain metro areas of the state, […] View Full Story
The dairy industry is celebrating the end of a long battle, as President Trump signed the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids bill into law Wednesday. B Amy Penterman is a dairy farmer and Dairy Business Association board member who has young children. She tells Brownfield the new Whole Milk for Healthy Kids act is what […] The post Whole Milk for Healthy Kids signed into law appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story
The president of the Illinois Farm Bureau (IFB) says a long-standing precedent in the transition of power within the organization and its insurance company, Country Financial, is being circumvented. Phillip Nelson, who was elected by IFB members in December, says the board of directors for the two groups traditionally overlaps. “We had an election […] The post Illinois Farm Bureau president raises concerns over board transition with Country Financial appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story
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