Tag Archives: farm

• Agriculture / News

  Vilsack visit sparks call for Food, Farm and Jobs bill

  Talk to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack these days, and the former Iowa Governor will say that American farmers are producing…
• Agriculture

  Ag in the AM: Pork Expo Starts in Des Moines

  Pork producers and industry experts are at the Iowa State Fairgrounds through Friday
• Agriculture

  Ag in the AM: Rain Hits at Right Time

  Rains help planted crops which were facing long, dry May days
• Agriculture / Education

  Ag in the AM: Iowa’s Future Farmers Want to Stay in Iowa

  Four out of five Iowa F.F.A members planned to get a college degree
• Agriculture

  Ag in the AM: Farmers Say Crops are Good, Rain Needed

  Crops in Iowa and Illinois are in good shape though more rain would be a welcome sign
• Agriculture

  Ag in the AM: Strawberry Season is Ripe

  Iowa’s Agriculture Secretary says the state is entering prime strawberry-picking season right now
• Agriculture

  Ag in the AM: Ag Committee Finishes Farm Bill Hearings

  The last of the committee hearings for the House version of the 2012 Farm Bill was held Friday
• Agriculture

  Ag in the AM: Insurance Payouts Hit Record for Farmers

  Insurance payments for damage done last year to America’s farms could top out at more than $11 billion
• Agriculture

  Ag in the AM: Farmland Prices Surge in Iowa, Illinois

  The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City says the price of Iowa farmland rose 27-percent over the past year
• Agriculture

  Ag in the AM: Corn Planting Almost Finished

  90% of Iowa corn crop, 95% of Illinois’ now planted
• Agriculture

  Ag in the AM: Drying is Needed for Area Fields

  41-percent of eastern Iowa farmers and a quarter of the farmers in northwest Illinois say the fields are too wet
• Weather

  NWS: May 3 Iowa storm was a tornado

  The National Weather Service determined the storm that pushed through Henry and Washington counties in Iowa included a “high-end EF2” tornado.