MAXWELL — After 149 years of processing beef for farmers and customers in Iowa, Amend Packing Co. closed its doors in 2018. But more than a year ago, Tucker Maxwell drew upon his experience working at a meat locker and decided to breathe new life into the old Amend building and opened his ...
ANKENY — What Joclyn (Bushman) Kuboushek sees through the lens of her camera when photographing farmers yields breathtaking snapshots of the day-to-day life of someone striving to feed the world. Kuboushek, 28, grew up on a farm in northeastern Iowa where her family raised livestock and ...
BRITT — Years of showing cattle and earning purple ribbons in the ring led one north-central Iowa farm couple to create their birth-to-plate cattle operation called Purple Ribbon Beef. As a fourth-generation family farm, sisters Ashley and Sara loved traveling across the country showing ...
DES MOINES — Corteva will locate the global headquarters of Vylor, its future independent seed and genetics company, in Johnston, following its planned separation later this year, Gov. Kim Reynolds announced on May 13. “With Pioneer’s century-long legacy in seed genetics, Vylor’s ...
Farmers are used to a lot of uncertainty. Will the rains come at the right time, in the right amount, or will they not come at all? Will the sun burn up the crops in July? Will thunderheads drop hail in August? But farmers are used to worrying about the weather. There’s a whole new ...
U.S. Rep. Randy Feenstra saluted the passage of a new Farm Bill by the full House of Representatives on Thursday. “Today marks a major milestone not just for Iowa agriculture, but for agriculture across the country,” the Republican from Hull said in a written statement. “I’m proud to ...
DAYTON — They are among the beef producers caught in the squeeze between the end consumers and initial producers. A.J. and Kellie Blair don’t keep up on the price of hamburger at local grocery stores, but they do know the price of calves ready to feed out — and somewhere in the ...
MARSHALLTOWN — Class of 2023 BCLUW High School classmates Lincoln Stover and Paul Murty have been friends for as long as they can remember, and they’ve also both grown up with a deep connection to agriculture. Stover’s father Kurt is a consultant, while the Murty family farms about ...
STORY CITY/ALTOONA — Life has come full circle for producer Aaron Holt whose farm-to-table catering and personal chef business relies on his family’s farm to grow the food he then serves to others as an award-winning chef. As a child, Holt fondly recalls learning how to cook from his ...
DES MOINES — A new, three-year Nitrogen Soil Sampling Project will conduct nitrogen soil testing for farmers in targeted areas upstream from the Des Moines metro, according to Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig and the Iowa Nutrient Research & Education Council (INREC). Testing ...
