Tag Archives: farm

• Weather

  Cleanup underway after damaging storms strike southeast Iowa

  Residents of counties in hard-hit southeastern Iowa have begun cleaning up after storms swept through the region Thursday night.
• Agriculture

  Ag in the AM: It’s Egg Month

  It’s “National Egg Month” and Iowa is by far America’s largest producer
• Agriculture

  Two farms quarantined in mad cow investigation

  Two farms have been quarantined by the USDA as the agency continues to investigate last month’s discovery of mad cow disease at a California dairy farm.
• Agriculture

  Ag in the AM: Heavy Rains Concern Iowa Farmers

  The rain isn’t just keeping some of the planters stalled, it can also cause erosion in fields
• Agriculture

  Ag in the AM: Corn Planting Well Ahead of 2011

  The cool weather has slowed some of the growth but Illinois farmers now have 79-percent of the corn crop planted
• Agriculture

  Ag in the AM: Hay Progress is Slowing

  The cooler weather has certainly put a stop to rapid progress of the hay crop
• Agriculture

  Ag in the AM: Farm Bill is Senate Bound

  The 2012 Farm Bill is out of committee and heading to the full floor of the U.S. Senate
• News

  Dept. of Labor Drops Proposal to Ban Under Aged Farm Workers

  Late Thursday the Department of Labor dropped a number proposed changes to it’s child labor laws. Most notably bans on…
• Agriculture

  Ag in the AM: Grassley Says Farmers Shouldn’t “Farm the Farm Bill”

  Senate Agriculture Committee member Charles Grassley says if there’s no agreement by early August, there will be no Farm Bill this year
• Agriculture

  Ag in the AM: Southern Farmers Delay Farm Bill Progress

  The Farm Bill is stalled in the U.S. Senate for now
• Agriculture

  Ag in the AM: Iowa’s slow corn start

  A survey of Iowa farmers found growers in the state had less than two good days for planting last week
• Agriculture

  Ag in the AM: Senate Progress on Farm Bill

  Direct payments are gone in the Senate version of the 2012 Farm Bill