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 ...
NEWS *The four major beef packers are in the crosshairs of the Trump Administration. The Justice Department, USDA and the White House were all represented at a news conference focusing on anticompetitive behavior in the meatpacking sector. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins emphasized ...
Two weeks after the U.S. House passed its “skinny” Farm Bill — the law’s usual lard had been cut into last July’s reconciliation bill — applause is still yet to be heard in either Washington, D.C. or rural America. One big reason might be exhaustion. After three years of pushing, ...
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 ...
Every day that the Strait of Hormuz remains closed, the balance sheet of global oil supply/demand deteriorates a little further. It has now passed the point of concern to where it is becoming a major crisis. Twenty percent of the world’s oil/gas moved through the Strait, but there are some ...
Some children come to us through the wombs and labors of other mothers. And our lives are never the same. A few years ago, while our children were in high school, I began to notice a young guy hanging out with them at our farm. I had never seen him before. He was a year ahead of them in ...
My wife and I recently went horsing around. And no, it didn’t involve traveling to Louisville for the Kentucky Derby. We are much too cheap to make a special trip like that. Some years ago, when we were in Kentucky for business, my wife and I visited Churchill Downs. There weren’t any ...
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 ...
