A crucial national holiday is looming on the horizon. Ignoring this holiday could imperil your current and future happiness, especially if you’re a guy. Valentine’s Day is a boon for the greeting card, floral, and jewelry industries. Sales could be tripled if their stores’ sound systems ...
When living on a farm, predators can come in all shapes and sizes. From coyotes, birds of prey, racoons, opossums, mink, and other domesticated animals, predators in Iowa make it their business to locate where their next available meal might come from. According to the most current USDA ...
WEBSTER CITY — Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig’s stop in Webster City in January to view the Career Ag Academy was like a visit with old friends and family. Because it was. Naig grew up on a family farm in northwest Iowa near Cylinder. He was obviously at ease touring the ...
NEWS *Tyson Foods is paying $48 million to settle a class-action lawsuit. The allegations were that Tyson and other pork processors conspired to fix prices from 2009 to 2018. Earlier this month, Tyson paid $55 million to settle a similar lawsuit in its beef business ...
If growing corn is a religion among Midwestern farmers, its Vatican is somewhere in central Iowa. That fact was confirmed in late January when a Des Moines-based ag consulting firm released a report that predicted dire consequences for Iowa farmers, its ag economy and the nation if Congress ...
A Webster County couple that has raised pigs, corn and soybeans for 40 years has received a top state award for Iowa livestock farmers who demonstrate outstanding animal care, environmental stewardship and a strong commitment to their community. Gregg and Liddy Hora were presented the Wergin ...
More than 90 years have passed since the first FFA chapter was assembled in Iowa. Current state officers are wrapping up their term with the Iowa FFA, which serves more than 20,600 student members belonging to 270 local FFA chapters. Three of those FFA leaders reflected on the past year ...
I did participate in a demonstration, so to speak, at the Iowa State Capitol. I joined ethanol and CO2 pipeline supporters who were lobbying against an Iowa House Bill that would bar use of eminent domain for virtually anything. That was overkill. It was no surprise that the bill passed in the ...
It’s hard to believe we’ve reached the age where getting out of here for a few days in the winter seems like a really good idea. We did it last year for the first time, since I had a January speaking job in Florida. We packed for January Florida weather; but our job of it exposed the fact ...
KANSAS CITY — When Mark Beemer attended his first National FFA Convention in his long-ago high school days, he never imagined that Kansas City would become his home. In those days of the late 1970s and early 1980s, Kansas City still hosted the huge convention of young, blue-jacketed FFA ...
