Q: What’s in store for the new Farm Bill? A: As a member of the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee, and as a lifelong family farmer, I bring real-world experience to the policymaking table on behalf of the farm families who feed and fuel the world. As Congress begins its ...
Toledo, IA. Annie’s Project, a six-week course designed specially to help farm women develop their management and decision-making skills, is being offered by Iowa State University Extension and Outreach Marshall and Tama County. Online registration is available at ...
AMES — Registration is now open for Practical Farmers of Iowa’s 2023 annual conference, “On Common Ground,” which will take place Jan. 19-21 at the Iowa State Center Scheman Building on the Iowa State University campus in Ames, Iowa. All are welcome. Full details are at ...
• Make sure to have a valid hunting license, habitat fee, and deer tag for the correct season. • Make sure blaze orange still fits and that the orange hasn’t faded to the point of being ineffective. The minimum amount of blaze orange required by Iowa law to hunt in the firearm deer ...
WEST DES MOINES — The Iowa Agriculture Literacy Foundation is making mini-grants available to support the integration of agriculture into classroom instruction or after-school programs with an academic focus. The Agriculture in the Classroom Teacher Supplement Grants, made possible through ...
Iowa’s most popular deer hunting seasons are just around the corner when roughly 100,000 blaze orange-clad hunters take to the timber, and wildlife experts are forecasting another good year. “Our deer population is stable to slightly increasing statewide, so hunters should expect to see ...
Crop Report Harvest neared completion with 4.8 days suitable for fieldwork during the week ending November 20, 2022, according to the USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service. Cold temperatures and snow limited additional fieldwork to applying soil amendments such as anhydrous, manure, ...
Crop Report Harvest was mostly complete with 5.6 days suitable for fieldwork during the week ending November 13, 2022, according to the USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service. Fieldwork included wrapping up fall tillage, applying fertilizer, baling stalks, and hauling and spreading ...
Warm and dry conditions early in the week helped accelerate row crop harvest, which remained ahead of average, with 5.3 days suitable for fieldwork during the week ending November 6, 2022, according to the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service. Fieldwork included harvesting row crops, ...
With harvest winding down, farmers who are thinking of planting cover crops – as well as those who have already seeded covers for the coming winter – still have a chance to apply for cost-share and technical assistance through Practical Farmers of Iowa’s cover crop cost-share ...