During a week when President Joe Biden made major proposals to Congress and lawmakers discussed massive spending plans, the message from some …
The United Soybean Board has cleared the road for a new soybean use. One of the latest soybean checkoff dollar investments is a new soy-based …
Supreme Court justices signaled skepticism of assertions from small oil refineries that they should be allowed to extend lapsed waivers from m…
COLUMBIA, Mo. — Farm succession planning should not begin when the head of the family dies, says Wesley Tucker, University of Missouri Extensi…
When putting together a financial portfolio, diversification is a word that is often used for risk management. By not “putting all eggs in one…
Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller submitted an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court supporting the biofuels industry’s challenge of three f…
Senate Democrats are circulating a plan that would trigger tax bills on the assets of the wealthy after they die as the lawmakers seek new sou…
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AMES, Iowa — Many Iowa farmers continue to hire at least some of their fieldwork and livestock work to be done by others, and new data from a …
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MAXWELL, Iowa (AP) — Sudden meat shortages last year because of the coronavirus led to millions of dollars in federal grants to help small mea…
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Iowa farmland values shot up 7.8% over the last six months, with the sharp increase in commodity prices spurring most of the rise, according t…
SCRANTON, Iowa — Justin Robbins and his family had been selling beef straight from the farm for several years, including individual cuts for t…
GEFF, Ill. — It was good while it lasted, but the fracking boom on the horizon in southeastern Illinois a decade ago appears to be a shrinking…
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Trying to create farm succession plans in a pandemic, mediating a farm family “divorce” and making the tough decision to euthanize pigs were s…
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CEDAR FALLS, Iowa — The Hawkeye Farm Show is set to run March 3-5, with more than 250 exhibitors featuring over 1,000 agricultural products an…
Editor's note: The Triumph of Ag Expo has been cancelled for 2021.
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VERSAILLES, Mo. — On a sunny February day in Morgan County, the square in Versailles was a busy place, with vehicles slowly driving by the old…
With some local sales avenues limited, a pair of turkey farmers started their own business in the middle of a pandemic.
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