Milk prices had just started to rise when President Donald Trump’s tough talk on trade began last spring. “That zapped them back down,” Bill Vanderham, a small dairy producer in southeast Iowa, said Thursday […]
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — State agricultural officials say an insect that’s killed millions of ash trees has been found in three more Iowa counties. Officials said in a news release Wednesday that the […]
IOWA – Iowa is piloting a program called Place of Last Drink to help police trace where drunk drivers are coming from. The program will help law enforcement find if any businesses need to […]
The invasive weed, called mile-a-minute weed, has been in the mid-Atlantic states, but hadn’t been found further west than Indiana, Kentucky and an outlier in Oregon. ISU weed scientist, Bob Hartzler, the Iowa Department […]
LIME SPRINGS, Iowa (AP) — Some northern Iowa residents have banded together to fight what they call pollution of their water and air after several failed attempts to thwart the rise of hog confinements. […]
DES MOINES — While most Iowa farmers are aware of the new law passed this spring that increases funding for water quality programs in the state, they may not be aware of a number […]
DUBUQUE, Ia. (AP) — An earthworm native to east Asia has been confirmed in Dubuque and Muscatine counties in eastern Iowa. The Iowa Agriculture Department says they’re usually called jumping worms because of their […]
PLEASANT HILL, Iowa (AP) — Iowa natural resources officials are investigating a fungicide spill and subsequent fish kill in a central Iowa creek. The state Department of Natural Resources says an unknown amount of […]
MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa — With the scope of the devastation still sinking in, business owners and residents of the central Iowa city of Marshalltown on Friday began picking up bricks from collapsed buildings, dragging away […]
DES MOINES, Iowa — A flurry of unexpected tornadoes swept through central Iowa, injuring at least 17 people, flattening buildings in three cities and forcing the evacuation of a hospital. Residents — and even […]
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