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Getting attention in Congress Moving Ahead with Buying Plans Like Deer, Questions Come in All Sizes Making the U.S. Industrial Case High Profile Pigs Year of the Utility Tractor? No Lipstick on These Pigs Bigger, Faster, Oh My Going Electric? Chrysler Makes a Statement Equipment Availability and Brand Loyalty Collide Lucky Time at a Farm Show Saying Not Goodbye, But See Ya Later Agriculture Heats Up Local Politics A Precision Change? Good News Keeps on Coming New at Boone! Facts in Plain Sight Packing for the Big Show Ramping up for 'Fieldwork' Downed Corn Along the Road helmet speakers helmet speakers helmet speakers helmet speakers Farm Real Estate Trend RE: Speakers Speakers U.S. Pork Center of Excellence Launches Swine Science Online Iowa Landowner Participates in Special Conservation Buffer Project Heavy Overnight Rains Delay Show Open Heavy Overnight Rains Delay Show Open USDA Meteorologist Looks at Corn, Soybean and Cotton Conditions Call Your Local FSA Office Before Cleaning Bins Out Organic Price Election Programs Announced Vilsack Responds to ERS Reports Vilsack Responds to ERS Reports Loans Benefit Electric Consumers Rural Development Funds Released Timely Harvest Makes Good Corn Silage Iowa Farmland Values This Summer Are Up 8% From July 2009 Afternoon Recap by Arlan Suderman Morning Call by Bryce Knorr Livestock Call By John Otte Fall Corn Scouting Necessary VP Touts Recovery Act Investments Study of Biobased Lubricants to Begin Twenty New Iowa Counties Declared Federal Disaster Areas for Agriculture Iowa Corn & Soybean Crops Are Moving Rapidly Toward Maturity Plan Your 2010 Crop Harvest, Storage & Marketing Case IH Unveils New Steigers and Magnums Fourth of Five USDA-DOJ Workshops Held Fourth of Five USDA-DOJ Workshops Held Scientists Crack Wheat Genome Feed Source of Egg Contamination NPPC-NCBA GIPSA Rule Media Briefing Held NPPC-NCBA GIPSA Rule Media Briefing Held Get Your Free Weed Identification Guide at 2010 Farm Progress Show Iowa Poultry Association Issues Statement on Voluntary Recall of Eggs New Colorado Lab Opened Visit ISU Display To See How Giant Grass Meets Energy Needs Expect the Insects to be Out There Pushing the Combine Envelope Weatherproofer III Gets New Muscle You Can Visit With Top State USDA Officials At Farm Progress Show You Are Invited To Attend ISU Research Farms Late Summer Field Days Soybean Sudden Death Syndrome Is Widespread This Year - What Can You Do About It? Livestock Competition Workshop Is Highly Anticipated Livestock Competition Workshop Is Highly Anticipated General Sign-up for CRP Draws to a Close Senators Question Purpose of Competition Workshop Senators Question Purpose of Competition Workshop Groups Request Hearings on E-15 Safety Disaster Relief Dollars Still Being Sought USDA Announces $363 Million More for Rural Broadband Access Iowa Secretary of Ag Candidates Give Stump Speeches at State Fair Should You Report 2010 Crop Damage To FSA? 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Massey Ferguson Phasing In Sisu Engines Annie's Project To Offer New Programs For Farm Transitioning Deli Meat Recall May be Too Late Governor's Charity Steer Show Raises $108,430 at Iowa State Fair Political Action Committees Announce Candidates They Support Crops Ahead Of One and Five-Year Averages Soybean Crop is Ahead of Last Year Expect More Egg Recalls Vilsack Encouraging HealthierUS Participation Ammonia Application Made Simple Suction Aeration Advantages Cited ISU Updates Iowa Corn Nitrogen Rate Calculator Learn How to Make Your Own Fuel at 'Biodiesel and Beyond' Field Day Pfizer Animal Health Introduces INFORCE 3 Respiratory Vaccine Keynote Speaker Announced for AFBF Annual Meeting Farmers Need To Take Advantage of Recess Competition Workshop Agenda Announced Competition Workshop Agenda Announced EPA Releases Draft Strategy for Clean Water EPA Releases Draft Strategy for Clean Water New Egg Farm Issues Egg Recall What's Happening With Soybean Rust This Summer? Stink Bugs Are on the Move in Iowa Soybean Fields Clean Energy Investments Strong Kuhn Offers new Bale Processor Where Did All The Nitrogen Go? Will You Need To Treat For Soybean Aphid This Year? You Are Invited To Attend ISU Research Farms Late Summer Field Days President Appoints USDA Officer Other Items Besides Pork Are Being Targeted by Mexico Rate Reduction of Atrazine Could Have Same Effect As Ban Pilot SNAP Program Started Make Sure EEE Vaccinations Current What's Up With Weed Resistance to Herbicides in Iowa? EPA Takes Action Against Eight More Iowa Cattle Feedlots Broadband Access Is Important to Rural America Lucas Talks About White House Effort to Find Ag Disaster Aid Federal Reserve Bank Reports on Farm Values, Incomes Millions of Eggs Recalled Report Says Forests and Grasslands Benefit Rural Areas Iowa Cattlemen Are Holding Regional Meetings Next Week Flint Hills Resources Agrees to Buy Iowa Ethanol Plants For Some Farmers Rain Is A Pain Barrier May Benefit Producers in Flood Prone Areas NAILE Hosts Angus Programs NAILE Hosts Angus Programs NAILE Hosts Angus Programs Rural Energy Dollars Released Checkoff Tool Helps Farmers Improve Quality of U.S. Soybeans Website Has Handy Information for Users and Handlers of Pesticides KZValve Offers Hand-held Remote Rain Rolls Through Iowa Cattle Industry Needs to Work Together Cattle Industry Needs to Work Together CRP Sign-up Deadline Nears Senate Agenda Uncertain Following Recess Events Teach Animal Rights Activists to 'Play Dirty' Events Teach Animal Rights Activists to 'Play Dirty' Corn and Soybeans Still Holding Their Own Against Heat and Wetness Food Price Inflation Almost Negative So Far This Year Switchgrass Lessens Soil Nitrate Loss Into Waterways Beef and Pork Export Reports Corn Ears Are Showing Some Tipping Back and Premature Denting Economic Rebound Will Show R&D Investments Wise Syngenta Receives Approval from Mexico, the Philippines for Two Agrisure Viptera Trait Stacks Court Halts Planting of GMO Sugar Beets Forest Landscape Project Funds Released Senators Support Proposed USDA Rules Clarifying GIPSA Senators Support Proposed USDA Rules Clarifying GIPSA FDA Food Safety Modernization Act Substitute Offered USDA Accepts TAA Petition J-Wheelz Add ATV Traction In Loose Terrain Sudden Death Syndrome Appearing in Many Iowa Soybean Fields ISU Announces Late Summer/Early Fall Field Days at Research Farms Around the State FSA Announces Increased CRP Rental Rates For 2010 Sign-up Don't Make Assumptions Until You Walk Your Fields Iowa's Annual Grazing Lands Conference Is Aug. 23-24 Deadline To Terminate Farmland Leases Is September 1 Soybean Aphid Populations Are Low, But You Should Keep Scouting Fields Big U.S. Corn Crop Is Forecast By USDA, While Iowa's Crop Is Expected To Be 5% Smaller Than Last Year Health Care Reform Includes Paperwork Requirement Iowa Cattle Producers Help Fund Beef Sustainability Study Ag Groups Back Lincoln-Chambliss Effort More than $18 Million Awarded in Conservation Innovation Grants ARS Engineer Finds Way to Meet Energy Demands with Wind, Solar Combos Grassley & Feingold Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Support Family Farms USDA Asking States to Apply for Nutrition Program Testing Next USDA, DOJ Livestock Workshop at Colorado State Flood Recovery Information For Iowans Who Have Damage House Ag Ranking Member Says Senate on Right Track with Latest Legislation House Ag Ranking Member Says Senate on Right Track with Latest Legislation Agreement Made Over Public Lands Grazing Concerns Agreement Made Over Public Lands Grazing Concerns Biodiesel Cleans Up the Oil It's Trying to Replace Thinking About Planting A Cover Crop This Year? CRP General Sign-Up Is August 2 to 27 Tools Identify or Predict Scab Infestations Three Traceability Meetings Set Three Traceability Meetings Set We Ride Yamaha's New Grizzly 450 EPS 'Ramping Up' Workshop Will Examine Mechanization on Vegetable Farms 'Super' Combine Rolls for 2011 Revamped Animal ID Program Regulations Will Be Proposed Next Spring Revamped Animal ID Program Regulations Will Be Proposed Next Spring Senator Pleads Rural Dust's Case to EPA Senator Pleads Rural Dust's Case to EPA Cattle Groups Discuss GIPSA Rule's Potential Impact on Cattle Producers Cattle Groups Discuss GIPSA Rule's Potential Impact on Cattle Producers AMI Puts Meatless Monday Into Focus AMI Puts Meatless Monday Into Focus 'Take It to the Farmer'-- Reaching The World's Smallholders National Forest Service Fees Waived Check Out Iowa Egg Council's Many Egg-Citing Events at State Fair Bobcat Introduces Two New Bigger Loaders High Heat And Humidity Are Good For Crops, Bad For Livestock August Crop Report Likely to Have Better Idea of Yield Expectation Employees at USDA Are Ageing There is Still Threat from Soybean Rust Economists Survey Results Reported Scientists Progressing on Scab Project Soybean Farmers Urged To Be On Lookout for White Mold Win Free Groceries, Food Savings At 2010 Iowa State Fair Valspar Implement Paint Stands Up to Nature Public Lands Grazing Threatened SNAP How-To Handbook for Farmers Markets Released by USDA Much of Iowa Has Potential for Good Yields This Year Bill Would Not Require Water Act Permit NFU Urges Congress for RES in Energy Legislation What's The Impact of Mid-Season Flooding On Corn Ear Fill? No Money for Black or Native Farmers Yet United Fresh Produce Sets Meeting Kuhn Upgrades Power Harrow Series Disaster Assistance 'By The End Of The Month' 4000th Operation Main Street Speech Hybrids Separate Themselves By This Time of Year ISU Display At Farm Progress Show Will Encourage "Working Together To Care For Our Land" Visit "Farmville" In The Ag Building At 2010 Iowa State Fair Common, Weird And Unusual Spots Showing Up On Corn Be On The Lookout For These Soybean Diseases High-powered Rifle Used To Vandalize Sac County Hog Farms Child Nutrition Reauthorization Passes Unanimously Beef Checkoff Consistently Receives Approval Beef Checkoff Consistently Receives Approval Number of Farmers Markets Continues Increase Across U.S. Senator Urges Overhaul on Universal Telephone Fund for Broadband Statewide Training For Commercial Manure Applicators August 25 EPA Funding Helps Iowa Anhydrous Ammonia Facilities Comply Mahindra USA Launches a Baker's Dozen Mandatory Price Reporting Bills Ready for Floor Consideration Mandatory Price Reporting Bills Ready for Floor Consideration Crop Insurance Considerations For 2010 Damage New York Senator Wants 2012 Farm Bill Changes Government Asked to Take Action on Beef Checkoff Government Asked to Take Action on Beef Checkoff Health Care Legislation Examined by Report AMI Says Meat is Still Safe Despite Recent Study AMI Says Meat is Still Safe Despite Recent Study 'Farmers Market Week' Celebrated Aug. 1-7 In Iowa 'Farming For The Future' Conference To Discuss Regulatory Issues Vilsack Announces Broadband Projects We Test the ThermaCell Outdoor Lantern Major Decrease in Expenses for Farmers and Ranchers Major Decrease in Expenses for Farmers and Ranchers Livestock Antibiotic Ban Ahead? Livestock Antibiotic Ban Ahead? Retail Meat Prices Are Reaching For A Record High Retail Meat Prices Are Reaching For A Record High Iowa Cattle Operation Wins Regional Environmental Award New York City to Burn Bioheat Iowa Crops Mostly In Good Shape, Despite Fifth Wettest July In 138 Years Fold-up Wing Float Pulverizer Winter Wheat/Red Clover Rotation Shows Several Benefits Amendments of Interest to Ag Possible in Senate SURE Sign-up Deadline Approaches NFU President Participates in Policy Discussion at Sweetener Symposium Study Says Technology has Slowed Flow of GHGs Largest Flex Fuel Vehicle Fleet Has New Pump Conserve Energy With Proper Tractor Ballasting Governor's Steer Show Is August 14 At Iowa State Fair New Tire Aims for Big Sprayers Health Care Legislation Provisions Analyzed in Center for Rural Affairs Report Public Lands Grazing Threatened Public Lands Grazing Threatened Industry Wants Wind Energy Legislation Sunflower Launches New Disc Harrow EPA Takes Action After Soybean Damage Reported Mid-Season Soybean Diseases Now Showing Up In Iowa Harkin-Lugar Amendment Would Give Ethanol A Boost Pioneer Agronomists Say Look Out for Foliar Diseases Beef Checkoff Consistently Receives Approval Now Is Time To Scout Corn For Foliar Diseases Use Moisture Meters to Ensure Flood-Damaged Buildings Are Ready To Rebuild Farmers Market Tour Emphasizes Local Food, Local Energy Connections Dig Now To Check Roots For Soybean Cyst Nematode FSA County Committee Nominations Due Amendment on Estate Tax Not Yet Part of Small Business Bill Child Nutrition Bill Needs Passage Before Programs Expire New Beef Resource Organization Formed With Purpose to Spread Facts New Beef Resource Organization Formed With Purpose to Spread Facts Mandatory Price Reporting Bill Passes House Ag Committee Mandatory Price Reporting Bill Passes House Ag Committee Lincoln's Ag Disaster Money Dropped from Senate Bill Students Design Key Part of ISU Farm Progress Show Display ISU Research Farm Reports Now Available Online Deadline To Certify Yields For ACRE Is Extended To September 1 Beef Exports Need More Action on FTAs Big Changes Since 1995 Farm Bill Crop Acreage Judge Blocks Part of Arizona Immigration Law Research to Look at Climate and Freshwater Systems ARS Signs Partnership Agreement Watch for First Official 2010 Crop Production Forecasts August 12 Iowan Elected to Serve as Officer of US Grains Council Monsanto Corn Technologies Receive European Union Regulatory Approval Problems Found During NCBA Audit Problems Found During NCBA Audit USB Reassured by Conclusion of Audit Growth Energy and Research Paper Author at Odds Lincoln Pleads for Child Nutrition Extension Passage Fold That Subsoiler! Consider Late Summer Seeding of Forage Crops New Seed Count Labeling Standards to Benefit Farmers and Seed Industry Rain Saturates Iowa Crops - Muddles Corn, Soybean Prospects For 2010 CRP General Sign-up Begins Next Week USDA Extends Comment Period on GISPA USDA Extends Comment Period on GISPA EPA Asked to Approve E-12 Interim Rule We Drive Polaris Redesigns for 2011 Democrats Face Uphill Climb Two Northwest Iowa School Districts Win Biodiesel Promotion Grants Have You Thought About Running for Soil Commissioner? Webcams Offer Live Look at Show Site Webcams Offer Live Look at Show Site GIPSA Comment Period Extended by USDA Support Remains to Do Something on Energy Committee Could Cut Ethanol Subsidy Senators Say EPA's Dust Regulation Proposals Defy Common Sense USMEF Gets High Rating from FAS USMEF Gets High Rating from FAS ISU Has Hay Storage Cost Analyzer Available Iowa Department of Agriculture Responds to Audit Report Sunco Launches NutriMate 3 'Grazing And Browsing For Biodiversity' Field Day August 1 Corn Doesn't Like Tropical Weather Either Are You Taking Advantage Of Recent Rally In Crop Prices? Iowa Corn Growers Announce Board of Director Election Results Are Nematodes Damaging Your Corn This Year? Walk Your Fields, Plan Now For Next Year's Soybean Crop Crop Insurance Hearing Held By House Ag Subcommittee Senators Try to Address 'EPA Overreach' on Agriculture Senators Try to Address 'EPA Overreach' on Agriculture Forest Service Steps Up Climate Change Work Senate Will Take Lead on Tax Cut Extensions EQIP Program Very Popular and Under Funded Kinze Offers $5,000 Rebate Iowa Department Of Agriculture Database Potentially Compromised Iowa Soybean Association Helps Host Mississippi Visitors U.S. Farmers Rated Global Leaders in Sustainable Farming NCBA to Present Lifetime Achievement Award at Upcoming Conference NCBA to Present Lifetime Achievement Award at Upcoming Conference USDA Employee's Resignation At the Center of a Firestorm Obama Signs Financial Reform Law Implementation of 2008 Farm Bill Reviewed by Senate Ag Committee Ag Subcommittee Reviews Specialty Crop and Organic Ag Programs Summer Beef Conference Focuses on Rebuilding Herds Summer Beef Conference Focuses on Rebuilding Herds Animal Ag Is Focus of Latest Issue of ISU College of Ag Magazine Truckstop Operators Urge Congress to Extend Biodiesel Tax Credit Debate of Cattle and Beef Issues Dead Idea 'August-like' Weather In July Is Encouraging Crop Development Rural Development Programs Reviewed By House Ag Subcommittee NFU President Points Out Permitting Problems Durum Wheat Quality Program Applications Now Being Accepted by USDA Grain Industry Debates Terms in Dietary Guidelines National Pork Producers Council Questions FDA's Antibiotics "Guidance" Traps Indicate Early Flights of Corn Earworm Moths HPPD Resistant Waterhemp Confirmed Several Cuts of Income Tax Remain Up in the Air Legislation to Protect Local Immigration Laws Introduced Energy Bill Debate May Start Next Week Yetter Adds to Residue Manager Choices Snowblower Designed for Bobcat Tractors Rhino, Wells Fargo Partners on 0% Retail Financing Program NCBA Prepares for 2010 Summer Conference NCBA Prepares for 2010 Summer Conference USDA Announces Funding for Wetlands Restoration Projects in Midwest Crop Insurance Considerations for Late Planted and Replanted Acres Unique Butter Sculpture, Wine Experience, Much More at Iowa State Fair New Heavy Tiller From Kuhn ISU Extension Has Information On Farmland Leasing; Meetings Are Being Held Across Iowa In July & August Biomass Technologies Providing More Opportunities Moratorium on Regulations Backed by House Minority Leader E85 Fueling Locator Apps Available NFU Brings Light to Accurate Information on Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food Support for Aviation Biofuels Sought USDA Announces Two Iowa Projects to Restore and Enhance Wetlands Green Cloverworms Appearing in Some Iowa Soybean Fields Will It Be Year of Gray Leaf Spot? Start Scouting Corn For Western Bean Cutworm Groups Oppose Plan To Phase Out Ethanol Industry Incentives Concern About Crop Weather For Second Half 2010 Growing Season Hot Weather This Week Boosts Corn And Soybean Prices Great Plains Owner Talks About British Acquisition Planting Accuracy for Smaller Operators Complexity is Holding Down ACRE Signup RFA, Other Ethanol Backers Differ With Growth Energy Financial Reform Legislation Passed by Senate NFU Says Growth Energy's Proposal Good for All Americans Child Nutrition Bill Passes House Committee Win a 200-hour Tractor Lease at Farm Progress Show Iowa Troops Taking Final Training Before Heading to Afghanistan on Agricultural Mission Traps Indicate Early Corn Earworm Moth Flights Ethanol Policy Change Proposed by Growth Energy Estate Tax Proposal Put Forward in Senate Estate Tax Proposal Put Forward in Senate CBO Missed Big Picture According to Renewable Fuels Association Corn Leaders Lobbying in Washington Iowa Senator Sees Good Things in Proposed Livestock Rule Iowa Senator Sees Good Things in Proposed Livestock Rule Administration Officials to Host Clean Energy Economy Forum Growth Energy Says Action Needed Now Iowa Corn Field Guide Reprints to Be Made Available Students Take Professor's Advice, Start Bioenergy Company at Ames Nutri-Pro Fertilizer Bar Provides Flexibility Iowa Senator Says Energy Legislative Issues Important for Agriculture President Appoints Agricultural Advisor Companies Sign Standard Reinsurance Agreements EPA May Tighten Dust Regulations 2011 Renewable Fuels Percentage Standards Released by EPA WASDA Members Hear Climate and Energy Issues R-CALF Says Extension Request for Proposed GIPSA Rule Unnecessary R-CALF Says Extension Request for Proposed GIPSA Rule Unnecessary ISU Honors IDALS Water Chief as "Extraordinary Partner" Photo Contest for Farmers Has August 4 Deadline July 12 Report Shows Week Of Recovery Helpful For Iowa Crops It's Time To Control Those Pesky Flies! It's Time To Control Those Pesky Flies! Monsanto Completes Key Regulatory Submission Agco Cash Back for the Summer Passage of Food Safety Legislation Being Pushed RFA Supports GAO Recommendations for Improving Loan Guarantee Programs Time Short for Action on Estate Taxes Time Short for Action on Estate Taxes Recovery Act Funding Announced for Stimulating Food Systems Iowa State Expands Investment in Regional Food Systems Work Sign Up Now for PQA Plus Pork Adviser Recertification Sessions Results of 2010 Farm Program Signup USDA Grant to Benefit Rural Electric Customers Food Agencies Praised by Secretaries Producer Participation Encouraged by R-CALF Producer Participation Encouraged by R-CALF Culver Tours ADM in Cedar Rapids, Pushes for Increased Biofuels Begin Scouting Fields for Soybean Aphids Now Monsanto Announcement Receives Cautious Response RK Series Rotary Rake New from MF Good Time to Review Corn Ear Terms Summary: Foliar Fungicide Use On Corn In Iowa (2007-2009) Summary: Foliar Fungicide Use On Soybeans In Iowa (2006-2009) White Mold Mushrooms Showing Up In Soybean Fields USDA Announces Voluntary Public Access and Habitat Incentive Program USDA Announces Voluntary Public Access and Habitat Incentive Program President Supports Food Safety Bill EPA Fines Monsanto for Distributing Misbranded Genetically Engineered Pesticide NCBA Takes Time Out from Restructuring Organization NCBA Takes Time Out from Restructuring Organization Growers Urged to Vote in Corn Promotion Board Elections July 13 Use Tissue Testing to Identify Which Fields Are Responsive to Phosphorus and Potassium NCBA Seeks Extension for Comments on GIPSA Rules NCBA Seeks Extension for Comments on GIPSA Rules Report Shows Ban of Atrazine Would Be Devastating to Ag Sector Take Time to Check Soybean Root Nodules NRCS and FSA Working to Streamline Services Senators Urge Modification to Crop Insurance Proposal Farm Bill Possibilities Discussed in North Dakota Farm Bill Possibilities Discussed in North Dakota Groups Support Separation of State Beef Councils Groups Support Separation of State Beef Councils Alfalfa Has Future as Feedstock to Make Cellulosic Ethanol Flooding Has Hurt Iowa's 2010 Corn, Soybean Crop Prospects BASF Plant Science and Monsanto to Expand Their Collaboration in Maximizing Crop Yield A Sad Deal for Farmers Who Missed ACRE Deadline NPPC Asks for Extended Comment Period ASA Top Legislative Priorities Set for 2010 USDA Funding Water Quality Projects USDA Funding Water Quality Projects Extra Testing for E-15 Explained by White House Corn and Soybean Growers Encouraged to Scout for Japanese Beetles USDA Announces Availability of Grants to Spur Job Creation Monsanto to Alert Farmers About Corn Earworm Migration Is In-Season Fertilization Effective for Soybeans? Iowa Sen. Grassley Presses for Biodiesel Tax Credit Extension John Deere Creates SeedStar XP Monitor for Planters HumaneWatch's View of Ohio Compromise Has Changed HumaneWatch's View of Ohio Compromise Has Changed Electric Concerns and Biofuels Cited by Former CIA Director New Round of Recovery Act Broadband Projects Announced Iowa Remanufacturing Company Thrives in Down Economy Consider Forages and Cover Crops for Delayed Planting and Flooded Fields What's Up With Crop Insects and Diseases in Early July in Iowa? NPPC Puzzled by Recent Pork Board Appointments AAA Says Only HSUS Benefits from Ohio Compromise AAA Says Only HSUS Benefits from Ohio Compromise Weather Changes Means More Trips to Corn Field Chinese Ports Clogged With Unclaimed Bean Shipments Iowa Growers Skeptical Of USDA 2010 Planted Acreage Report Are You Sitting On The Fungicide Fence? Could 2010 Growing Season Weather Turn Out Like 1983? House Moving on Ag Appropriations Compromise with HSUS Has Ohio Farmers Concerned Compromise with HSUS Has Ohio Farmers Concerned Immigration Reform Depends on Bipartisanship House Education and Labor Committee Hears From Ag Secretary on Nutrition ISU To Hold Annual Horticulture Field Day July 29 Near Ames ISU Offers Web Training For People Who Handle Ag Pesticides 2010 Innovative Beef Symposium to Unveil New Beef Cuts 2010 Innovative Beef Symposium to Unveil New Beef Cuts ISU Extension Helps National Guard Team Prepare for Afghan Agribusiness Assignment Animal Cruelty Will Not be On the Ohio Ballot in November Animal Cruelty Will Not be On the Ohio Ballot in November Ahead Of Energy Debate, NCGA Stresses Now Is the Time for Ethanol Senate Begins 2012 Farm Bill Process Johnson Stresses Importance of Energy Legislation Land Use Change Theory Affected by New USDA Report USDA Accepting Applications for Energy Audits Tri-state Team to Study Air Quality of Beef Barns Register Now for ISU Seminars on Ag Law & Farm Estate Planning Beef Checkoff Launches New Veal Foodservice Web Site Beef Checkoff Launches New Veal Foodservice Web Site Redesigned Pork.org Web Site Offers New Features Corn Bt Refuge in a Bag Is Here. What Are the Pros and Cons? Monsanto Seeks U.S. EPA Registration for Refuge-In-The-Bag Option for Can I Plant Fruits or Vegetables on Contract Acres? Senate Ag Committee to Hold First Hearing on 2012 Farm Bill Sukup Offers Medium Duty Hopper Bin New Study Shows Impact of Transportation on Farmer Incomes Mid-Plains BEEF Practicum Program Offered By Extension Services Helpful Safety Tips for July 4th Grilling Festivities Provided by USDA Calls for Ag to Start Alliance Building Calls for Ag to Start Alliance Building Rain Taking Toll On Fields It's Not Too Early to Start on Next Farm Bill Crop Conditions Take a Slight Hit Votes Being Lined Up for Financial Reform Antimicrobial Guidelines Proposed by FDA Panel of Dairy Producers Says Something Has to be Done Ethanol Producers Encouraged by Recent Reports House Ag Hears Testimony in Preparation for 2012 Farm Bill ISU Is Developing Better Method for Boosting Octane in Gasoline New Holland Introduces More Powerful WORKMASTER Tractor NCBA Happy with Korea Move NCBA Happy with Korea Move Financial Overhaul Finalized by Key Leaders in Both Chambers USDA/DOJ Hold Third Competition Workshop Farm Groups Testify Before House Ag Subcommittee ASA Encouraging More Efficient, Effective and Defensible Programs National 25x25 Summit Speakers Provide Range of Perspectives Graduates in Ag and Related Fields See Improved Job Prospects The Bull Provides Mobile PTO Power Disease May Show Up in Corn Fields Livestock Farmers Urged to Take Caution When Making Hiring Decisions What's Happening in Corn and Soybean Fields This Summer? ICGA Displeased With EPA Delaying E15 Decision Again Iowa Governor Urges EPA To Support Biofuels, Create Green-Collar Jobs ISU's Field Diagnostic Clinic For 2010 Is A Return To Basics Crop Management Clinic Features Over 20 Timely Topics NCBA Suspends Proposed Structure Changes NCBA Suspends Proposed Structure Changes Questions About Conservation Compliance Immigration Legislation is Needed Outside Groups Still Concerned with NCBA Governance Proposal Outside Groups Still Concerned with NCBA Governance Proposal National Biodiesel Board Looking at Alternatives Russia Lifts Ban on U.S. Poultry SDSU First Research Partner in Winter Wheat Expansion Initiative More Aphid-Resistant Soybean Varieties Are Becoming Available What Will the Gulf Oil Spill's Impact Be on Agricutlure? Obama Moratorium Blocked by Judge New Roadmap for Reaching Biofuel Goals Released Co-op Story Will Be Told at USDA/DOJ Workshop in Wisconsin. Higher Premiums from Insurance Companies Deemed Not Okay by Obama More Funds for Water Quality Improvements Released Supreme Court's Decision on Alfalfa Doesn't Affect USDA Study New Regulatory Costs Threaten Small Meat Processors New Regulatory Costs Threaten Small Meat Processors Iowans Named to Help Lead U.S. Soy Export Council Early-Season Diseases Showing Up in Iowa Corn and Soybean Fields Surviving 'Cow Days of Summer' Surviving 'Cow Days of Summer' Case IH Will Use SCR for 100 hp and Larger Engines Roadmap for Achieving Renewable Energy Goals is Focus of USDA Report ASA Vouches for Importance of Chinese Market for Soybean Exports Grassley Says Best Solution Is Going Back to February Proposal Heavier Cover Crops Provide Dividends How Much Yield Have You Lost? USDA Awards $36 Million to Support Water Quality Wetlands and Conservation Practices in Iowa 2010 Monsanto Beachell-Borlaug Program Scholarship Recipients Announced Case IH Adds to Air Cart Lineup Despite Wet Weather, 75% Of Iowa Corn In Good to Excellent Condition A 'Virtual' Tour of Tomorrow's Engineering Today Energy Efficiency Improvements Shown in USDA's Corn-Ethanol Industry Report Food Safety and Nutrition Bills Casualties of 'Short Calendar' At This Point U.S. Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Roundup Ready Alfalfa NASS Seeks Information from Stakeholders About Renewable Energy Gulf Oil Spill Not Likely To Induce a Fuel Price Influx IRFA Calls on Obama to Break Gridlock in Congress on Biodiesel Farmers Need to Update Listings on Iowa Hay and Straw Directory Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Monsanto Proposed New Livestock Marketing Rules Receive Mixed Reaction Proposed New Livestock Marketing Rules Receive Mixed Reaction Bioenergy Partnership Authorization Requested CARB's Motion to Dismiss Denied by District Court Growth Energy Says EPA Delays are Unacceptable Biodiesel Tax Extension Remains Stalled Federal Firefighters Ready for Fire Season Kubota Selling L Series Tractor/Loader Package Landoll All-Purpose Drill Starts New Series How Much Defoliation Can Corn Stand? Signs of Potassium Deficiency Showing Up in Some Cornfields 2010 World Food Prize Honors Go to Two Grassroots Leaders Estimate Your Nitrogen Losses From Wet Weather This June Scout Corn and Soybeans Now For Early Summer Diseases La Nina Weather Trend Heightens Risk of Having a Dry Summer Guidelines For Applying Additional Nitrogen After Wet Conditions USDA Announces Incentives to Transition CRP Land to Beginning Farmers Manage On-Farm High-Temperature Grain Dryers for Energy Efficiency Several Issues in Next Farm Bill Concern Congress Estate Tax Issue Addressed on Senate Floor by Grassley Administration's Recovery Summer Underway Smithfield Wants Full Ownership of Butterball Senator Lincoln Urges Congress to Pass Energy, Jobs Bill Only Few Days Left In Conservation Stewardship Program Signup Period Iowa's Annual Lauren Christian Pork Chop Open Planned For July 20 Do Iowa Small Towns Benefit From Presence Of Large Farms? Farm King Offers Self-Contained Grain Vac No Official Word from EPA, DOE on Blend Wall Delay Hay Expo First Day a Success Despite Delayed Start Hay Expo First Day a Success Despite Delayed Start World Food Prize Honorees Named Group Commends USDA on Conservation Report Corn Growers Elect Next First Vice President EPA Targets Iowa Cattle Feedlots for Runoff Violations EPA Targets Iowa Cattle Feedlots for Runoff Violations Two New Appointments For Leopold Center Advisory Board New Holland Expands Payload on Grain Carts Full Demos Slated for Day 2 Full Demos Slated for Day 2 Company Clears Another Regulatory Hurdle Panel Wants You to Cut Back on Sodium Intake Iowa Crops In Good Condition With More Than Enough Rain Into Mid-June Keynote Address Focuses on Potential of Ethanol Some Farmers Miss Program Sign Up Due To Deadline Change USDA Bans U.S. Organic Inspector in China Beef Checkoff Creates New Foodservice Brochure Beef Checkoff Creates New Foodservice Brochure Expect a New Fungicide Offering From DuPont By 2012 New Iowa Law Puts Limits on Roadside Mowing Yetter Maverick Gets Flexibility Option 2010 Hay Expo Start Time Postponed 2010 Hay Expo Start Time Postponed Act Could Affect Child Labor on Farms Meeting Scheduled for FSA Technology Update Researchers Work to Improve Perch Growth Maintain Pesticide Applicator Certification During Military Active Duty June 25 Dairy Month Celebration to Be Held At ISU Dairy Farm Monsanto Expanding in St. Louis Area Meat Mobil Slaughter Program Set Meat Mobil Slaughter Program Set Finishing Touches in Place for 2010 Show Finishing Touches in Place for 2010 Show Projects for Carbon Capture and Storage Move Forward Cuban Leaders Urge Congress to Pass Restriction Legislation CRP Receives Boost USDA Ready to Battle Grasshoppers Pigs May Provide Breast Cancer Answers New Bear On the Block Water Quality Issues, Organic Farming, Improving Perennial Pasture Start Checking Soybean Roots for SCN Females Monsanto Company Adds Tripleflex Herbicide to Its Corn Portfolio Cargill, Meyer Natural Foods Enter Into Joint 'Go-to-Market' Agreement Cargill, Meyer Natural Foods Enter Into Joint 'Go-to-Market' Agreement How to Rate Plots By A Numerical Method National Pork Board Elects Leaders Making Room for Hay Expo Tents Making Room for Hay Expo Tents Iowa Soybean Fields Are Getting Pretty Green Between The Rows Keep An Eye Out For Soybean Aphids In Iowa Stalk Borer Migration Is Beginning In Iowa Crops Are Up and Growing at Boone Crops Are Up and Growing at Boone We Drive Deere's New Gator Deadline To Certify Yields For ACRE Is July 15 EPA Disapproving Resolution Fails Senate Vote Final Draft Version of Reinsurance Agreement Announced Policy Changes Adopted by Milk Producers County Committee Elections to Be Held Government Releases Broadband Report Child Nutrition Reauthorization Begins in House Timely Information Available From Midwest Plan Service At ISU Pork Industry Is Looking For A New Slogan 2010 Hay Expo is Almost Here 2010 Hay Expo is Almost Here Applications Now Being Accepted For Iowa’s Fifth I-LEAD Class Iowa Fruit and Vegetable Growers Summer Field Day June 29 Schmeiser Unveils PFS Series Scraper Compassion Guides Farm Financial Planner Through Long Career Monsanto, Armtech Unveil Biotech Yield Assurance Program For Farmers New Gator Raises the Level of the Swamp Practical Energy and Climate Plan Offered NACD Supports Disapproving Resolution EPA To End Use of Chemical NPB's New Strategic Plan Being Implemented Burrus Hybrids and Hughes Hybrids Create Strategic Alliance Deanna Rose Dairy Day Set for June 12 Engine Performance Benefits Put Biodiesel in a Class By Itself Two-Cylinder Club to Hold 20th Expo June 17-19 at Waterloo Kuhn Offers New Gyrorake Northey to Visit Decorah and Strawberry Point June 16 Northey to Visit Decorah and Strawberry Point June 16 Food Safety Shortcomings Pointed to by Report USDA Helping Feed U.S. Hungry Survey Being Taken of Pests and Diseases Harmful to Honeybees Jobs Spending Questioned by Senator Sukup Adds Hammer Head Door Latch Survey Looks at Consumer, Farmer Attitudes Market for High Quality Farmland Remains Steady to Strong Iowa Cicadas Make Unexpected Appearance Four Years Ahead of Schedule Swine Reproductive Management Seminars Offered Swine Reproductive Management Seminars Offered Mobile Website Offers Updates Mobile Website Offers Updates Shell, Cargill, Others Pony Up $46 Million for Sugar Gasoline Wet Weather Woes Are Aggravating Crops In Southern Iowa USDA Clears High-Oleic Soybeans Grains Exports Could Be Harmed by Gulf Oil Spill Reid Wants Energy Bill GAO Reports on FSA Oversight Study Taiwan to Inspect U.S. Beef Plants Taiwan to Inspect U.S. Beef Plants Following Recommendations Could Provide Positive Results Iowa Gets New Round of Value-Added Producer Grants Rule Change Could Run Local Meat Lockers Out of Business Rule Change Could Run Local Meat Lockers Out of Business BASF Files for Registration of Three Active Ingredients Certify Your 2010 Planted Acreage By June 30 Announced Workshop Will Focus on Dairy Industry Despite Bipartisan Support, Estate Tax Measure Held Up by Politics New Rust Resistant Bean Varieties Under Development USDA To Purchase Surplus Tomatoes Curious Cutworms Found in Iowa Soybean Fields Scout Fields Now For Soybean Seedling Diseases Conservation Security Program Signup Extended to June 25, Final Rules Issued Corn Will Soon Be on It's Own CSP Final Rule Published by USDA EPA Advisory Committee Announced Several USDA Programs and Grants Unveiled USDA's Farmers Market Begins 15th Season Iowa Farm Family Featured in Washington D.C. Ad Campaign Iowa's Silos and Smokestacks Group Awards $58,500 in Grants President Promotes Climate Change in Wake of Oil Spill National Rural Summit Strives to Show Importance of Rural America to Rest of the Country Coastal Farmers and Ranchers Feeling the Impact of Oil Spill RFA Pushes California's ARB to Maintain Pledge to Use Best Available Science New Sorghum Technology Highlight of Field Days Workhorse Utility Vehicle Line Launched Pork Board to Meet During WPX Iowa State University Research Farm Field Days Scheduled For June ISU's Tractor Pull Team Has High Hopes for This Year's Big Contest Watch Soybeans for New Early-Season Pest Iowa Corn, Soybeans Enter First Week Of June In Pretty Good Shape Pesticide Rule Draft Proposal Issued by EPA Farm Succession Planning Is Focus Of ISU Extension Workshop Farm Bill Hearings Scheduled by Senate Ag Committee Record Pace for Ethanol Supply Tenth Herd Retirement by CWT Begins USDA Helping Restore Disaster-Stricken Farmland Through Funding ARS Scientists Discover Reason Pathogen Threatens Wheat Supply ISU Releases Annual Cash Rental Rate Survey For Cropland Companies Reach Tech Agreement Hog Producers Invited to Reproductive Management Seminars Conservation Payments Average $25 per Acre; Applications Due Soon What Qualifies As Prevented Planting? EPA Approves VipCot Cotton for Natural Refuge House Passage of Biodiesel Tax Credit Praised by NBB, ASA New Child Nutrition Effort Sought NPPC Displeased by EPA Deal New Study Provides Tools to Maximize Nitrogen Use Efficiency CSIF To Hold Series of June "Doing Things Right" On-Farm Meetings Two Iowans Win Groceries for a Year Thanks to Farm Groups ISU Specialist Offers Tips for Sampling Strip Trials for Corn Nematodes Continued Biosecurity Is Vital In Today's Pork Industry Five New Tubing Sizes From Lundell Iowa Learning Farm Announces Summer Field Days For 2010 Senate Passes Full Market Access Resolution Corn and Bean Fields Soaking Up Sun, Making Progress in Iowa USDA's June Surveys Will Provide Vital Data on 2010 Farm Production Stall Design May Impact Well-being Of Gestating Sows Biodiesel Tax Extension and More for Ag Part of Bill Passed by House Thinking About Signing Up For Conservation Security Program? Pay Attention To Timing Restrictions For Postemergence Herbicides It's Time To Pull Soil Samples For Nitrate Testing Predicting The 2010 Corn Rootworm Hatch In Iowa Environmental Petition Being Challenged Does The Crop Insurance Premium I Pay Benefit Me If I'm In ACRE? Crop Insurance Agents Suggest Alternatives to USDA Cuts Study Says Ag Grads Have More Opportunities Ethanol Plants are Ramping Up Efficiency Tips for Early Season Corn Nematode Scouting Iowa Learning Farm Offers New Video 'Troubled Waters' Sign Up Now For PQA Plus Advisor Recertification Sessions New York Hosts Veal/Dairy Tour Farmers Get Soybeans off to Early Start CWT Announces Herd Retirement Seed Treatment Expanded to More Crops Taking the 'Family Farm' Message to Washington Report: Protect Rainforest, Add to U.S. Farm Income Mutant Wheat Rust Has Scientists Worried Visiting Korean Team Experiences California Beef Tour Get Honest Answers to Tough Questions About Ethanol Beef Industry Keeps the Focus on Safety Improvements Beef Industry Keeps the Focus on Safety Improvements Heterosis Needs a Homozygous Recharge Fetal Programming Research Roundup Beef Group Governance Changes Ongoing Beef Group Governance Changes Ongoing Renewable Fuels Association Challenges Enviro Lawsuit Conferees Named to Hammer Out Financial Bill Group: Get 'Navigable' Back Into Clean Water Act Changes Plans for Both 2010 Hay Expo, Farm Progress Show Progress Arm & Hammer Animal Nutrition Introduces PeakReportOnline.com What's Happening With Soybean Rust in 2010? Can Tank-Mixing Fungicide With Postemergence Herbicide Increase Yield? MBA Sets Single Month Graduation Record! Haybuster Adds New Vertical Mixer Warmer, Drier Weather Welcome As Iowa Farmers Continue Planting Soybeans Myths, Misconceptions and Misinformation about EPA are Abundant Ranking System Stinks Foreign Marketing...Giving Cattle Producers Something to Think About Financial Reform Legislation Supported By AFBF New Compliance Guide Available for Mobile Slaughter Units Senator Harkin Says the Time for Food Safety Reform is Now NCBA Governance Structure Questioned NCBA Governance Structure Questioned Scout Your Fields to Catch Potential Problems in Corn, Soybeans Third Ranking Cutoff Date Set for Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program New Mixer for Beef, Dairy Producers Is Bigger Better? Five Common Gripes About The ACRE Program Comprehensive Financial Reform Bill Faces Conference Next Slow Response to Foot-and-Mouth in Japan Creates Controversy Jobs Bill, Biodiesel Tax Measure Delayed Next Frontier: Controlling Crop Stresses You Can't Control Leica Geosystems Throws Late Spring Special Apply for Grants Through Iowa Watershed Improvement Board Buy Chevy Flex-Fuel Vehicle, Get $250 Worth of Ethanol Free HP Labs Designs Data Center Fueled by Manure Taking a Gamble? Checking Your Financial Health No 'Late Filing' Period For 2010 DCP/ACRE Program Sign-Up Can You Keep Nitrogen In The Soil And Out Of The Creek? Wet Field Conditions Have Farmers Worried About Nitrogen Loss Bull or Bear, There's a Market Strategy The New Sharecropper Polaris Opening Mexican Assembly Plant Do I Have To Submit FSA Tax Disclosure Form To IRS? Call to Action on Biodiesel Tax Group Tackles Obstacles Limit Export Growth Reminder: ACRE, DCP Deadline Approaches Study Shows Gaps in Livestock System Marketing Advice for 2010 New Corn Trait OK'd for Use in U.S. - It Will Be Available for 2011 Conservation Stewardship Program Now Open for Business Dieselcraft Spins Fuel for Purity Practical Farmers of Iowa Announces 2010 Field Day Lineup Forage Focus at 2010 Hay Expo Forage Focus at 2010 Hay Expo World Pork Expo Debuts People's Choice BBQ Contest How to Pay for Biodiesel Tax Credit Has Bill Stalled Kofi Annan To Deliver 2010 World Food Prize Keynote Address Coalition of Ag Groups Urges Senate to Adopt Murkowski Resolution Iowa Cattlemen's Association Announces Hiring of New CEO Emerald Ash Borer Found Here - Iowans Are Asked to Not Move Firewood Do-It-Yourself Shed/Barn Design Do-It-Yourself Shed/Barn Design Monsanto Donates Seed to Haitian Farmers John Deere Builds Its 500,000th Self-Propelled Combine Farm Bill Hearing Held in South Dakota Financial Regulation Bill is Moving Forward Obesity Affecting Military Recruits Research on Aphid Control Shows Promise Next Deadline for USDA Conservation Stewardship Program Is June 11 Iowa's Largest Farm Cooperative Joins Partnership to Buy Fertilizer New Leader Launches Nutrient Applicator Training Program for Livestock Auction Markets Dry Weather Welcome This Week As Iowa Farmers Get Back Into Fields BASF Announces EPA Registration of Charter F2 Fungicide Seed Treatment Antitrust Workshop Program in Alabama Announced Lubbock Hosts House Ag Committee Farm Bill Hearing Indirect Land Use Change Theory Ignores Facts and Data Time to Scout Corn and Soybean Fields On-Farm Energy Production Survey AMS Sets New Food Safety Standards Hobart Expands Metalworking Glove Lineup Beef Agreement Between U.S. and South Korea Remains Unchanged Beef Agreement Between U.S. and South Korea Remains Unchanged Soil and Water Conservation Is Hitting the Road in Iowa Keeping Up on Crop Weather - Was Hard Freeze on May 9 Unexpected? Improved Soybean Oil Achieves Milestone That Will Advance Development Of Foods AMI Against Regulatory Change What Is The Adjusted Gross Income Verification Process? Regional Approach to Farm Bill? House Ag Committee Hears from Ag Policy Experts Senators Introduce Bill to Stop West Coast Drilling When to Make First Spring Cut of Alfalfa and Mixed Alfalfa/Grass Timely Advice for Soybean Weed Control This Spring China Reopens to U.S. Pork Gowan Launches New Magus Miticide EPA Supports Expansion Of Ethanol and Biodiesel Production Genetics Has Come a Long Way! Take Note Of Seedling Diseases In This Cool, Wet Spring Check Your Corn Stand Now, Make Replant Decisions Carefully Be Careful Applying Herbicides To Weather-Stressed Corn Use Latest Price Projections To Help Make 2010 ACRE Decision USDA Announces Incentives Program to Transition Land to Beginning Farmers SURE Program Helps Farmers Manage Risk Where do European Ag Subsidies Go? Report Shows Atrazine Value Good News for Beef, Pork Exports Iowa National Guard Unit to Help Afghan Farmers Sac County Cattle Company Is Home of Best Burger in Iowa Kinze Offers Air Seed Delivery New Yetter Row Cleaner Pork Producers say Ethanol Industry Should Share More Risk Scientists: Bring Back Weed Research Funding New Draft Energy Bill Released Biotech Tree Field Test Cleared Dur-Adjust Upgrades DARF Hay Rakes Four-State Dairy Conference in June Four-State Dairy Conference in June ISU Gets $200,000 Grant to Develop Biomass Crops in Southern Iowa Not Much Time Left for Farmers to Make Decision on ACRE Field Peas Are Cheaper Alternative To Corn & Soybeans In Swine Diets USDA Announces Signup for CSP USDA Looking for Forest Lands Partners USDA Forming Advisory Committee on Minority Farmers National Soils Report Released Video Report: Defining Operation Success Kuhn Designs Transport Tedder Another Reason Why It Pays to Protect Your Corn Yields From Weeds Soy Oil Can Fulfill Demand For Food, Feed and Fuel Handling alfalfa residue from last year's fields ISU Extension Issues Black Cutworm Advisory For Corn Miller Diversion 180 Pushes TIG to New Welders New Performance Standards Released Cold Temperatures Could Force Some Replanting In Iowa Climate Change Bill to Be Introduced Wednesday Reconsideration of Chemical Drift Ban USDA, DOE Announce Research Grant Funding Chambliss Amendments Bring Support Homeland Security Offers Veterinarian Courses Iowa Barn Foundation Announces Historic Barn Tour June 12 & 13 Cropland Rent Is Holding Steady In 2010 In Iowa PorkBridge Educational Series Returns For Fifth Year Governor Culver Meets With White House Officials About Biofuels Applying Nitrogen, Herbicides and Contending With Windy Days How Does ACRE Differ From The Traditional DCP? Funding is Stalling the Biodiesel Tax Credit U.S. Pork Wins Blind Taste Test Early House Hearings Establish a Trend Energy Installation Grants Available Vilsack Tours Pennsylvania Biofuels Plant Corn Growers Association Urges Farmers to Carefully Consider ACRE How Did Cold Weekend Affect Iowa's Emerging 2010 Corn Crop? It's That Buggy Time of Year! Some Corn Seedlings Are Having Emergence and Health Problems Inaction On Biodiesel Tax Credit Is Costing Green Jobs In Iowa Assess Seedling Health When Doing Corn Stand Counts Consider Advantages and Disadvantages Of ACRE Company Offers a Challenge Market Drop May Have Been Caused by Tech Glitch Is Europe Opening to More Biotech? Corn is King at this Conference C.A.B. Campaign - Farmers Are Urged to Call About Biodiesel More Farmers Using ISU Extension Farm Financial Planning Analysis Renewable Fuels Should Be Part of Oil Spill Response Main Street Friendly Amendment Offered APHIS Taking Stand on Welfare Enforcement Canadian Hog Numbers Down DuPont Names New China Leader Iowa Soil Management and Land Valuation Conference Will Mark 83 Years Survey of Grain Shippers Shows Mixed Grades for Railroads Video Report: Maximize Your Crop Insurance Investment Video Report: Protecting Your Farm From Volatility EU and US Animal Welfare Groups Unite USDA Hosting National Summit on Rural America Urgency Felt to Complete Financial Reform Director of Food Safety at FDA Leaving Farm Broadcasters Meet with Ag Secretary Grain Chain Disputes Advisory Group's Findings NRCS Celebrates 75 Years of Service With Birthday This Spring Farmers Markets Have Become Bigger Part of Iowa Economy Sign Up ASAP For USDA's 2010 Farm Program Video Report: Where is Crop Insurance Heading for 2010 and Beyond? Agreement Focuses on GHG from Livestock Operations Senators Charge KYF2 Program Misguided DuPont Receives Historic EPA Registration National FFA Advisor Case Retiring USDA Purchasing a Variety of Foods America Has Lost More Than 23 Million Acres of Agricultural Land in Last 25 Years Check Out Iowa Poultry Association's New Website, Learn About Modern Egg Production Groups Want FMD Stopped From Spreading Iowa Has 84% Of Its Corn Planted, 13% Of Soybeans As Of May 2 Time to Start Scouting For Alfalfa Weevil In Iowa Video Report: Working Capital - What Should it Be? DuPont Receives U.S. EPA Approval for First 'Refuge-in-the-Bag' Seed Product Farmers Oppose Budget Cut Proposals for 2012 Farm Bill Mahindra Adds to 35 Series Call Made to Pay Farmers in Pigford II Case Details Released for Workshop on Competetion and Regulation Details Released for Workshop on Competetion and Regulation Debate Continues in Senate on Financial Reform Super Duty Fords Now Have Access Kuhn Offers New Rotary Rakes Animal Welfare Panel: No Compromise Try On-The-Saw Sharpening ISU Web Cast Available to Help You Make ACRE Decision for 2010 The Dreaded Word: Replant! Trade Mission Finds Japanese and Koreans Still Crave Iowa Beef ISU To Hold Greenhorn Grazing Workshops Beginning May 26 President Obama Gets Biodiesel Message In Ottumwa Culver Tells Obama About Need To Raise Ethanol Blend Limit Farmers Try Latest Corn Technology, Share Observations On Facebook 2010 Spencer Award Nominations Due To Leopold Center June 10 Video Report: Expert Panel Explores Profit for 2010 Financial Debate Finally Reaches Senate Floor Friday Begins Field Hearings on Farm Bill Arbor Day Observed Today Survey Focuses on School Food Wal-Mart Stores Set New Beef Requirements Couser Family Is 2010 Iowa Environmental Stewardship Award Winner Grassley Co-sponsors Bill to Extend Policies for Ethanol Production Syngenta, Embrapa Establish Multi-Crop Partnership FAO Warns of Increased Threat of FMD Infection PQA Plus & TQA Certification Available At World Pork Expo In June Earliest-Planted Corn Fields Are Already Emerging And Looking Good What Does It Take To Trigger An ACRE Payment? Senate Working on Finance and Immigration Reform Obama Visits Missouri Biorefining Plant AFBF Backs Tax Incentive Legislation Atrazine Receives Support During Hearing USDA Releases Latest Cash Rent Figures Cattle Price Bounce Will Soften Marshalltown Wins State 2010 Envirothon Competition Iowa Glyphosate Manufacturer Complains of Chinese Dumping Ag Leader Adds Dual Product Application Control to EDGE Display Both Sides Optimistic After U.S. Supreme Court Hearing Resistancefighter.com Pinpoints Glyphosate-resistant Weeds on Local Level Another 5.4 Million Pounds of Cheese Sold Wind Plant in Iowa President's First Stop on Main Street Tour High Priority for Immigration May Not Fly RFA Members Vist Capitol Hill Upgrade Made to FSA Computer Applilcations Current Rural Policy Supported by White House Report Poet Plans to Produce 3.5 Billion Gallons of Cellulosic Ethanol Iowa Ag Groups Successful in Getting Truck Weight Legislation Passed At Record Pace, Iowa Corn Planting Is 68% Complete As Of April 25 Russia Has Slight Imbalance in Pork Supply Obama Is Urged To Personally Bridge Congressional Deadlock Over Biodiesel Tax Credit Agreement Reached on Wall Street Regulations Immigration Dialog Opened by Arizona Law Legislation for Climate Change-Energy Stuck NACD Celebrates Stewardship Week There's Still Time to Test for and Manage Soybean Cyst Nematode Black Cutworm Monitoring Network Keeping Tabs on Corn Pest in Iowa What's The Possibility Of Getting An ACRE Payment for 2009 Corn? Farm Bill Hearings Scheduled by House Agriculture Committee ASA Pushes CAB Campaign Duty-free Quota Boosts Opportunities for U.S. Beef in Europe Farmers Need to Turn in Acreage Reports to FSA Office Authors Working to Introduce Climate Change Legislation Crop Calculator Helps Farmers EQIP Supports On-Farm Energy Audits Is Preventative Treatment for Black Cutworm Control Worth It? Should You Use a Fungicide Seed Treatment on Soybeans You Plant? Possibility Exists for a 2009 Corn ACRE Payment Iowa Lags In Farmer Sign-up For 2010 USDA Farm Program Iowa Farmer Winners Named In "America's Farmers Grow Communities" Earth Day Sees USDA Funds Released Much Work to Be Done On Regulation Package AFBF Voices Concern With EPA Blog Posting Strategy Will Fight Wildfires Monsanto Announces Farmers Mom Finalists Animal Science Alum Returns to ISU as Swine Farms Manager Cover Crops Field Day Is April 27 at ISU Agronomy Farm Checkoff Advertising Campaign Launches In May Wall Street Bill Passes Senate Ag Committee Supreme Court to Hear Monsanto RR Alfalfa Case Vilsack Testifies on Farm Bill NFU Supports Loan Eligibility Extension Act Users Board Recommends Navigational Improvements R-CALF USA Wants HACCP Changes Made County Loan Rates Announced Pork Quality Assurance Certification Class May 19 at ISU Pork Quality Assurance Certification Class May 19 at ISU Climate Change Forum at Ames Helps Formulate Research Agenda Researchers Turning Hog Output into Oil USDA Deregulates Breakthrough Syngenta Seeds Corn Trait Lincoln's Wall Street Bill to be Marked Up by Senate Ag Commitee Corn Prices Fall As Farmers Make Great Progress On Planting Grassley, Conrad Introduce Biofuels Legislation Farmers Should Be Part of Earth Day Celebration Farmers Markets Numbers Being Collected Researchers Turning Hog Output into Oil Equipment Breakthroughs Offer Motorists More High Blend Ethanol Options Iowans Can Apply for Grants to Help Promote Specialty Crops Address Pasture Problems Early for Season-Long Benefits Farm Bill Hearings Begin This Week in House Ag Committee Senators to Unveil Climate Bill Proposal Next Monday Food Borne Illness Report Issued by CDC Top Government Food Safety Expert to Speak Presidential Memorandum Addresses Outdoor Spaces California Firm Recalls Products CWT Accepts Bids for 4.5 Million Lbs. of Cheese Exports Dow AgroSciences & ISU Enter into Research Agreement on Algae Iowa State Field Agronomist Mark Licht Volunteers in Ukraine RFA Continues to Push E-15 Waiver Wall Street Bill Introduced by Lincoln Senate to Discuss Financial Overhaul Iowa Participating in Survey of Corn Disease Management Practices How Iowa Agriculture Fared in 2010 Legislature - Hits & Misses Planting Speed Still an Important Factor Reasons for High Turnover in Rural Vets Does Yield Loss Requirement To Qualify For SURE Payment Differ By State? Herbicide-Insecticide Interactions Can Pose Problems For Corn Plants Many Corn Planters Are Rolling In Iowa, Soil Conditions Are Great Early Season Tank-Mixing Considerations—Are You Really Protecting Yield? Dow AgroSciences Grower Agreements Can Be Signed Online Some Expect Food Safety Bill Discussions Next Week Financial Reform Centers on Derivatives New Chemical Legislation Ready for Action ELAP Program Changes ARRA Funds Will Help Rural Infrastructure WREP Funding Available Survey of ISU Grads Reveals Factors That Make an Entrepreneur World Food Prize Foundation Honors Effort to Fight Hunger in Africa White House Meeting Focuses on Financial Regulations Red Wing Software Releases CenterPoint Accounting House Committee Holds Hearing on Energy Tax Credits ASA Presents Research Priorities at NIFA Workshop ARRA Funds Released for Water Improvements Program Encourages SNAP Participation FLP Working to Save Forest Lands Updated Iowa Livestock Environmental Regulations Handbook Iowa Cattlemen's Foundation Awards $4,500 In Scholarships Farmer Reaction Varies on Refuge in a Bag Proposals Cattle Update For Veterinarians May 19; Workshops For Cow-Calf Producers May 18-19 How Much Yield Reduction Is Needed To Collect SURE Payment? Dairy Advisory Committee Meeting This Week Running on the Power of Protein in Boston Coalition Supports Permanent Estate Tax Law Poncho/VOTiVO Seed Treatment Receives Corn Registration Farm Bill Work Begins at Producer Level ARS Working to Develop Biofuel from Camelina Practical Farmers Of Iowa To Host Grazing, And Organic No-till Workshops Kuhn Offers New Variable Round Balers Turbo Boost for Massey's 2600 Series AutoFarm ParaDyme System Expands BBI Raises the Bar in Advanced Rate Control Iowa Legislature Failed to Act on Ethanol and Biodiesel Priorities ISU Updates Corn Planting Date Recommendations for Iowa NFU Calls for Crop Insurance Baseline Protection National Rewable Energy Scheduled for June Company Helps Farmers Turn 'Waste' to Energy Check Planter Settings Before Pulling Into The Field Renovating Pastures or Hay Meadows Damaged by Flooding American Wind Capital Buys OCES Class-Action Suit Filed Against Perdue Farms, Inc. Deere Creates New Insurance Entity State FFA Convention Set For Des Moines April 15-16 National TV Campaign Will Promote Ethanol Changes Requested in Senate Food Safety Bill USDA Working to Become the People's Department Wind Energy Growing Across Nation Wind Turbine Systems Contest Winners Announced CME Cheese Prices Rise BASF Sues Over Patent Rights How to Avoid Soil Compaction - and Why It's a Good Idea to Do So Compliance or Complacency? Corn Growers Need to Plant Bt Refuge Are You Ready to Pour a Glass of Champagne? Monitor Soil Moisture This Spring—Don't Work Ground Too Wet The Time Is Now To Apply A Residual Herbicide Deadline To Enroll In 2010 USDA Farm Program Is June 1 What To Do About Ruts In Fields This Spring Iowa Poultry Association Responds To HSUS Video Deals Made for Renewable Energy Systems in Hawaii Ethanol Production Continues to Increase Sustainability Focus at United Fresh Meeting Agri-Women Meeting Underway Make Plans Now To Attend World Pork Expo June 9-11 Calving Time Tips - Spring Calving Season Is Here, So Is the Mud! Corn Nematodes & Soybean Cyst Nematode: Similar But Very Different Global Food Security Symposium Keynoted by Vilsack FDA Weaknesses Exposed by Report Several Livestock Diseases Could be Declared Eradicated in Brazil State Beef Center Needs Survey Participants for Ethanol Co-Product Research Beef Center Needs Survey Participants for Ethanol Co-Product Research Publication Helps Farmers Select Energy Efficient Fans for Hog Buildings Renewable Energy Partnership Launched by USDA, Navy Cattlemen Hopeful for Vilsack Visit to Japan Maintaining Stored Grain Is Topic of April 9 Webinar Temporary Suspension of Brazilian Ethanol Import Tariff Beef Board Seats New Members Seedbed Preparation Is Key to Getting Optimum Corn and Bean Yields Search Begins for Next Veterinary Medicine Dean at ISU Can I Use Combine Monitor Data As Proven Yield? Agriculture Water Quality Funds Released BCAP Moving Biomass Industry Funds Released to Aid Community Facilities AFBF Reports Quarterly Food Costs More Distant Landowners Less Involved, ISU Research Shows Iowa Pork Regional Conference Presentations Available Online Iowa Pork Regional Conference Presentations Available Online Good Weather Lets Fieldwork Begin In Iowa For 2010 Crop Bale Cutters can Add Value to Hay Researchers Tap Diverse Wheat in Gene Battle 4-H Turns High Tech for Fundraising Evaluate Hay and Pasture Stands for Winter Injury Agriculture Was Big Loser in 2010 Session of Iowa Legislature Why Corn Plants Do Better When They Get More Light Farmers Are Committed To Meet Increased Demand For Corn Iowa Group Visits Japan To Celebrate 50th Anniversary Of "Hog Lift" Will Iowa Farmers Be Able To Plant On Time This Spring? What Records Do You Need To Keep For Farm Program? Circuit Court Vacates Injunction on California Law Government Has Not Made Its Agreed to Price NCBA Encouraged by Vilsack Trade Mission to Japan Spring's Soggy Field Conditions May Require High Flotation Tires Pioneer Announces $40 Million Iowa Expansion Project Resistant Bacteria a Fact of Life Beef Will Take Centerstage During Japanese Trip Strickland Signs Livestock Care Standards Bill Increase in Offshore Drilling Announced Wildlife Federation Calls for Repeal of Biofuels Incentives DOE to Open Biofuels Development Facility Hydroswing Pitches Directly to Farmers Up-Top Pivot Rotator from Nelson End Spray from Senninger is "Solid State" April Is Proclaimed as Safe Digging Month in Iowa This Spring, Patience Will Pay Off at Planting Time 4th Annual Meat-In Day Encourages Students to Support Ag Iowa Corn & Soybean Growers Respond To Planting Intentions Report FSA Chief Urges Iowa Farmers To Complete The 2010 Census Homeland Security Renews Animal Disease Efforts NCGA Issues Reminder on SURE Program USDA Broadband Program Enters Phase Two Bayer CropScience Launches Internet-Based Crop Compendium ISU Has Up-To-Date Soil Temperature Maps Available Cropland Rental Trends Have an Impact on Rural Iowa I-LEAD Class Returns From Foreign Trade Mission With Lessons Learned Study Finds E20 Lowers Emissions House Resolution Seeks More Access for Beef Products USDA Contracts to Update FSA System Tighter Farm Regulations Called for by New Report Timing of First Clean Air Act Permits Set by EPA Latest Health Care Poll Released Standard Reinsurance Agreement Cuts Considered Iowans Praise Bipartisan Support for Extension of Ethanol Tax Credit Nematodes Discovered on Biofuel Crops - But It's No Cause for Alarm Check Out FSA Loan Programs Ignore the Impulse to Fix Compaction this Spring No More Cap and Trade International Beef Symposium Taking Place in Manhattan, Kansas International Beef Symposium Taking Place in Manhattan, Kansas New Law Increases Renewable Energy Standard in Colorado Meat Safety and Accountability Act Introduced Pork Producers Attend NPPC's Spring Legislative Action Conference USDA Clarifies Prescribed Burn Plan Rules for CRP Contract Holders ISU System Reduces Odor Control Cost for Livestock Buildings How Deep Do You Plant Corn? Survey Shows Iowa Farmland Values Up 2.8% In Past 6 Months Information About Corn Nematodes And SCN Available From ISU Video: Expert Panel Explores Profitability Issues Health Care Package Finalized by Senate and House Comments Sought on Rule to Enhance Food Security Farm Bureau Versus Army Corps of Engineers Another Step Closer to Offering E15 Ethanol to Iowa Motorists Uncertainty in Seed Trait Industry Concerns Iowa Soybean Farmers Beef Checkoff Celebrates Earth Day Signup For DCP And ACRE Are Two Separate Steps Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act Gets Unanimous Support in Committee A Sure-Fire Grain Price-Raiser With Health Care 'Finished' Leaders Turn to Financial Overhaul NFU Goes to Vilsack on Behalf of Dairy Producers USDA Events Scheduled to Highlight Efforts to Improve School Meals Two-In-One Test Developed for Detecting E. coli 'It's Not Your Father's Kind of Grazing' at Iowa Grazing Conference 'It's Not Your Father's Kind of Grazing' at Iowa Grazing Conference Iowa Learning Farm Offers Free Planter Clinic March 30 Corn Acres May Be Limited by Tight Margins President Signs Health Care Reform Bill RMA Partnership Agreement Grants Available More Funding for Broadband Projects House Ag Subcommittee Looks at RUS Does U.S. Need All of The Biofuel Tax Breaks and Subsidies? More Than $1.6 Million Coming to Iowa for Biofuels From USDA Virent and Shell Announce Viable Biogasoline Process Challenges Remain for Heatlh Care Reform Grassley Will Introduce Amendment to Health Care Package Several Agencies Create Climate Research Program Ethanol to be Produced from Garbage Governor Culver Releases National Wind Energy Recommendations It's Time to Scout Fields for Winter Annual Weeds Health Care Package Passes House Deadline Is June 1 for USDA Farm Program Signup Governors Take Stand on Wind Energy SUN Act Introduced Air Quality Issues Focus of Grants JBS SA Makes Another Buy Gypsum Study Proves Problems of One-Year Conclusions Forage Planting Considerations for a Wet Spring Groups Urge USDA to Move Forward With CSP Sign Up Reports Of Hot Spots In Bins Of Stored Corn Are Increasing Watch For USDA Planting Intentions Report March 31 China Reopens Market to U.S. Pork China Reopens Market to U.S. Pork Bill Would Require More Recall Notifications Cold Storage Loans Available Nominations Wanted for 'America's Farmers Mom of the Year' Ag Groups Weigh-in on Supreme Court Case for Biotech Alfalfa More Veterinarian Student Loan Paydowns Coming More Veterinarian Student Loan Paydowns Coming NCGA Releases Video First Jobs Bill on President's Desk Official Spring Forecast is Wet One Health Initiative Discussed One Health Initiative Discussed Twenty Iowans Participating in International Ag Trade Mission More Than 500 Attended 2010 On-Farm Network Conference Why Weren't More Farms Enrolled In ACRE Last Year? Japanese Beef Ban Draws Fire from Senators Japanese Beef Ban Draws Fire from Senators Policy Goals Set at NFU Convention Senators Want Restraint on Ag Budget Cuts Pelosi Says Congress Could Pass Legislation Without Vote Northey Files for Re-election as Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Leopold Center Celebrates Neighbors in 2009 Annual Report Animal Standards Fight Restarts in Ohio Animal Standards Fight Restarts in Ohio Idaho, Missouri Take Preemptive Action Against HSUS Idaho, Missouri Take Preemptive Action Against HSUS AAA Looking at Activism's Impact on Food Security AAA Looking at Activism's Impact on Food Security Farm Bureau Reports on Views of Young Farmers and Ranchers Health Care Reconciliation Begins Process Wind Energy Keeps Iowa Electric Power Costs Down FAPRI Says Economic Turnaround Will Fuel Crop Price Recovery Health Care Changes Could Be Voted on by House This Week EPA GHG Regulation Continues to be Fought Against Action on Cuban Trade Legilslation is Being Urged in Both Chambers Older Bioenergy Plants Eligible for Improvement Funding Take Time to Secure Those Seed Bags Iowans Voice Support for Co-ops at Ag Competition Hearing Iowa DOT Suspends Number Requirement for Private Commercial Carriers Iowa Soybean Association Takes Exception To Anti-Biodiesel Remarks Iowa Farmers Upset Over USDA's New SURE Disaster Program Several Groups Testify on Cuban Trade Several Groups Testify on Cuban Trade USDA-DOJ Announced Updated Panel List for Competition Workshop USDA Tightening Guidance on Pork Contracts Subcommittee Reviews USDA's IT Systems ICA's Bruce Berven Announces May 31 Retirement ICA's Bruce Berven Announces May 31 Retirement Mac's Upgrades Trail D-Vise New Wind Power System Aimed at Farm and Ranch New Rotating Sprinkler from Netafim Bigger Swath Grader Blade Management Of 2009 Grain In Storage Is Critical This Spring NPPC Delegates Set Organizational Direction NPPC Delegates Set Organizational Direction Competitive Workshop Schedule Announced Soybean Group Endorses River Infrastructure Plan Conservation Districts Push Value of Technology Proposed Ethanol Mandate Dies in Iowa Legislature Successful Spring Planting Will Take Patience and Planning This Year Deadline to Apply for Small Farm Energy Grants Is March 31 Senate Moves Biodiesel Tax Bill Forward Co-ops Will Promote Competion at DOJ-USDA Workshops Advisory Committee Makes Recomendations to DOI Cellulosic Biorefinery Loan Announced Doppler Technology Could Lead to Better Management Protocols Harsh Winter Has Likely Reduced Bean Leaf Beetle Populations for 2010 Register Now for 30th Annual Iowa Agricultural Youth Institute Nominate Your Farm Mom? FAPRI Report Delivered to Congress You Have Another Chance At ACRE Animal Rights Legislation Introduced Forest Restoration Advisory Committee Being Formed Sorghum Checkoff Ends First Year Funds Available for Wind Energy Project in Hawaii ASA Policy Set at Commodity Classic Soybean Seedling Diseases Can Thrive in a Wet Spring More Farmers Showing Increased Interest in Cover Crops Manage Potassium for Hay and Pasture Production Management Sessions Offer Financial Perspective for 2010 EPA Control of GHG Has a New Opponent FDA Initiates Investigation That Could Lead to Huge Recall Trade Main Topic of Vilsack at Commodity Classic Russian Agreement to Accept U.S. Pork Confirmed by USDA Russian Agreement to Accept U.S. Pork Confirmed by USDA Some Counter-Cyclical Payments Going Out USDA Seeks Project Proposals From Five Iowa Watersheds Attention to Detail Will Make the Difference ISU Extension Leader Jack Payne Resigns, Accepts Position in Florida Spring Thaw Warrants Precautions for Farmers Corn To Gain Some Acreage In 2010, But Don't Expect Big Shift It Won’t Take Much Rain To Keep Fields Muddy This Spring It Won't Take Much Rain To Keep Fields Muddy This Spring Ag Secretary Highlights Need to Revitalize Rural America Monsanto Boosts Roundup Production, Announces New Herbicide March 15 is Deadline for USDA's SURE Coverage for 2010 Vilsack Will Keynote Commodity Classic AFBF Supports Relief Act Johanns Draws Parallel Between Safety of Beef and Toyotas Johanns Draws Parallel Between Safety of Beef and Toyotas Support Mounting for Resolution to Stop EPA USDA Wants to Improve Mississippi River Water Changes in Energy Stimulus Program Requested by Senators Climate Science Center Located in Alaska Getting the Biodiesel Tax Credit Back Online Is ASA's Top Priority Corn Growers See Need to Tell Their Story Most Americans Don't Know the Truth About HSUS Get a Jump on 2010 Final Version of Presidential Health Care Plan Outlined Jobs Bill Advancing in Senate CFTC Focus of Hearing Dean Foods Lawyers File Paperwork House Ag Committee Approves Bills Boswell Gathers Ideas on What Next Farm Bill Should Look Like New Study Examines Flow of Money From Rented Land in Iowa Ignite Herbicide Price Reduction Adds to the Value of LibertyLink Crops Gibbs Family Honored by Iowa Forage and Grassland Council New Free Online Tool From ISU Helps Farmers Earn More, Waste Less Company Working to Tackle Consumer-Farm Debate Focus on Debt, Rising China SmartStax Corn Hybrid Planted for Commercial Production Sharpen Your Grain Marketing With Crop Insurance Finance Ranking Member Has Questions for USTR Fact Sheets Available that List False Information in Movie Food Inc. Disaster Package Added to Jobs Bill Update Made to Poultry Welfare Guidelines Update Made to Poultry Welfare Guidelines Iowa Corn Growers Issue 'Call to Action' on Vehicle Weights Bill Legislation on Climate Change Will be Brought to Congress Next Month Pork Organization Meeting This Week Pork Organization Meeting This Week Health Care Reform Bill Limping Along Canadian Cattle Focus of DDGS Trial Canadian Cattle Focus of DDGS Trial December Domestic Ethanol Production Up McGovern-Dole Program Receives USDA Funds Webinar March 4 to Focus on Grain Storage and Marketing Issues Late Winter Manure Application Is Risky - Avoid It if You Can Iowa Farm Custom Rate Survey Results For 2010 Now Available Iowa 4-H or FFA Youth With Livestock Projects Can Apply for Scholarships Glyphosate and Manganese Interactions in Roundup Ready Beans USDA Final Decision on Large Producer Milk Bottlers USDA Announces CRP Signup Farm Bureau Young Farmers and Ranchers Honored Hydrogen Sulfide Emissions May Be Reportable Plan Pinkeye Prevention Program For Beef Cattle Now Plan Pinkeye Prevention Program For Beef Cattle Now Health Care Debated During Presidential Summit Drake University Convenes National Discussion On America’s New Farmers Herbicide Resistance: If It's Not Broken, Now Is the Time to 'Fix' It! Survey Shows Iowa Planted Acres Will Hold Steady In 2010 Check Bins Weekly--Don't Let Good Grain Go Bad Health Care Summit Held at the White House New Swine Contracting Requirements Being Enforced New Swine Contracting Requirements Being Enforced Obesity Collaborative Strengthened National FFA Week Winding Down Existing Government Policies Spur Wind Power Development Specialty Soybeans Get Separate Crop Insurance Treatment Sioux City Fertilizer Producer Terra Industries Is Sold to Foreign Firm How Will Livestock Traceability Decision Affect Iowa? How Will Livestock Traceability Decision Affect Iowa? Turning Point Offers Tough Cylinders Try Tractor Stalk Stompers Sukup Introduces Continuous Eave Venting Roto-Mix Presents Cyclone HDS Series You're Invited To 2010 Iowa Water Conference March 8-9 At Ames Tune-In To Practical Farmers Of Iowa's Spring Farminars Alternative Way to Treat Bunt Disease Possible Senate Passes Job Bill House Passes HR 4626 SRA Revisions Make Progress Poultry Labels Questioned Poultry Labels Questioned Insect Control Products Powered By DuPont Rynaxypyr Receive Federal Registration for Product Label Expansions IRFA Awards $2,500 Biodiesel Grants to Two Iowa High Schools Wetland Easements Will Help Reduce Flooding in Iowa This Spring Food Consumption Being Tracked By USDA Leafy Green Rules Considered Jobs Bill to be Voted on by Senate This Week President's Health Care Proposal Not Well Received Drug Use in Food Animals Defended by Livestock Groups Drug Use in Food Animals Defended by Livestock Groups Tune in to March 1 Webinar on Crop Insurance, Grain Marketing USDA Says More of U.S. Corn Crop Will Go to Ethanol President Offers Health Care Proposal Supreme Court Decision Tightens Pesticide Regulation Water Sustainability Program Announced Warning Label Sought for Hot Dogs An Antibiotic Ban for Livestock Would Endanger Food Safety Iowa Farm Bureau Responds to News Report on Antibiotic Use Pork Prospects Appear Promising Pork Prospects Appear Promising Commission in Place to Tackle Federal Budget Farm Bureau Making Moves on EPA Endangerment Finding NFU Thanks Ag Secretary for Call to Bring Biodiesel Tax Credit Back Attend Midwest Cover Crop Conference March 3 At ISU Deadline For "Farmers Grow Communities" Sign-up Is Feb. 28 Extra Residue this Spring May Require Adjustments NRCS Announces Grassland Reserve Program Signup USDA to Survey Farmers' Planting Intentions for 2010 Check Bins Weekly--Don't Let Good Grain Go Bad Beef Cattle Expansion Not Expected in Short Term Beef Cattle Expansion Not Expected in Short Term National Ground Water Awareness Week Planned Pressure Mounts to Make Dryer, Bin Buying Decisions Soon NCGA Continues Support of Nematode Research USDA Settles Lawsuit by Black Farmers Claiming Discrimination State Biopreferred Bill Expected to Become Law Texas Officials Challenging EPA Western Bean Cutworm Trapping Program Tracks Corn Pest New Iowa Beef Center Director Has Big 'Boots' to Fill Beginning Farmer Rancher Program Grants ARRA Review Continues Vilsack is Commodity Classic Keynote Speaker USSEC Selected as International Marketing Contractor USDA Proposes Changes in Crop Insurance Program ASA Wants Biodiesel Tax Extension in Jobs Bill Green Farmstead Partner Program Helps Mitigate Livestock Odor Football Star Returns to Iowa to Promote Energy Independence Webinar Replay: Tech Trends for 2010 Explored Former Ag Ambassador Shares Concerns U.S. Being Left Behind on Trade Web Site Launched to Watchdog HSUS Activities USDA Releases ERS Forecasts Political Control Could Change in Washington Bright Future Seen for Ethanol Industry by RFA Executive Administration Making Recovery Act Sales Calls GM and Growth Energy Push for More Blender Pumps Plan to Attend 2010 On-Farm Network Conference Feb. 23 Northey: Iowa Shouldn't Buy Sioux City Meatpacking Plant Northey: Iowa Shouldn't Buy Sioux City Meatpacking Plant Crop Insurance Decisions For 2010 R-CALF USA Backs Court Decision R-CALF USA Backs Court Decision California Companies Recall Meat Products Flaws Surface in U.N. Climate Report H1N1 Virus in Retreat Iowa Pork Regional Conferences Offer Wealth Of Information 'Cap and Trade' Could Substantially Increase Price of Corn and Beans Dean of College of Veterinary Medicine at ISU to Retire Syngenta to Sell Soybeans by Seed Count Veterinarian Loan Repayment Program Underway Organic Rules for Livestock Announced Organic Rules for Livestock Announced R-CALF Resolution Addresses Extremist Groups R-CALF Resolution Addresses Extremist Groups Biodiesel Leaders Call on Senator Harkin To Put 'Green Jobs' Back Into The 'Jobs' Bill Guest Worker Program Rules Posted Dairy H-2A Bill Proposal Coming Dairy H-2A Bill Proposal Coming Iowa Beef Industry Council Elects Officers Iowa Beef Industry Council Elects Officers New USDA Data Offers In-Depth Look at Organic Farming Experts Not Sure Where Extra Acres Will Go Syngenta Seeds Receives Mexican Import Approval for Corn Iowa Learning Farm Offers DVD of "Tips for No-till Planting" USDA's Vilsack Returning To Iowa To Attend National Pheasant Fest Sweetener Is Safe For Your Sweetheart This Valentine's Day Would Biodiesel Mandate In Iowa Lead To Higher Fuel Prices? Will You Get A 2009 ACRE Payment? Apply By March 12 For Cost-Share Funds To Switch To Organic Senate Jobs Bill Would Benefit Agriculture Administration Looking at Older Meat Animals R-CALF Resolutions to Go To Membership R-CALF Resolutions to Go To Membership Earthquake Awareness Promoted Clearing Up Misconceptions About Antibiotic Use in Animal Agriculture Clearing Up Misconceptions About Antibiotic Use in Animal Agriculture Consider Variety Choices for Top Yields USDA Allocates More Funds to EQIP Program's Organic Initiative Iowa Group 'Agriculture's Clean Water Alliance' Elects Officers Valent Introduces Biorational Business Unit Baseline Projections for Agriculture Released by USDA Topcon Introduces System 250 Federal Government Shut Down by Storms Report Focuses on Health Care Reform Sequencing May Aid in Producing Biofuel Crops Cooperatives to Tell Their Story Bolt-on ATV Traction Board Leadership Announced for Farm Credit Services of America State Sues Two Hog Firms Over Manure Plans Hot Start CTM Takes Chill Off Gators Get a Makeover NBB CEO Believes RFS2 a Great Catalyst for Biodiesel Industry Presidential Task Force on Child Obesity Formed House Ag Committee Holds Hearing on Cap and Trade Cyst Nematode Resistant Soybean Line Developed ICGA Happy With EPA's RFS Decision - Except for Indirect Land Use Apply Now to Be Recognized as Century Farm, or Heritage Farm Massey Ferguson Offers new HD Series Utility Tractor USDA Gives New Plan for Livestock ID Dynasty Seed Treatment Fungicide Now Registered for Use on Sorghum Plan Now to Attend the Hay Expo President Calls for Health Care Summit R-CALF USA Proclaims Major Victory Pork Industry Objective Unaffected Pork Industry Objective Unaffected GM Supports B20 Biodiesel Will Have Momentum as Year Continues Iowans Look at EPA's RFS Ruling as a Big Plus for Biodiesel Iowa Soybean Association Welcomes EPA's New RFS2 Rule Advanta US, Inc. Acquires Crosbyton Seed Company Interactive Risk Management Workshops For Pork Producers Interactive Risk Management Workshops For Pork Producers Estate Tax Rider in Bill Financial Reform in Jeopardy USDA Agricultural Projections to Be Released Nation's Sorghum Producers in Washington USDA Reviewing Government Food Programs Monsanto Company Receives Approval for New Acetochlor Herbicide Formulation Crop Insurance Industry and Iowa's Biggest Farms Face Cuts in Proposed Federal Budget Consider Frost Seeding or Interseeding Pastures This Spring Make Wise Choices About Seed Corn Group Opposes Biofuel Mandates Proposed By Iowa Lawmakers Iowa House Subcommittee Approves State Biodiesel Mandate Upbeat Mood At Iowa Power Farming Show BASF Launches Headline Fungicide Training Module Republicans Call for Estate Tax Legislation Support Children's Health Insurance Program Grows Pork Forum Held Next Month Pork Forum Held Next Month Incorrect Calculations of Indirect Land Use Provides Ammunition for Corn-Based Ethanol House Ag Chair Already Looking Ahead to Next Farm Bill Iowa Farmer Travels to Belgium to Talk About Biotech Will You Get a 2009 ACRE Payment? Matching Nutrition to Cow Type How to Use Crop Revenue Insurance in Your Grain Marketing Plan NCFC Concerned by Justice Attempt to End Antitrust Exemption NCGA Focuses on Tax Proposals Veal Industry Adopts Guidelines Veal Industry Adopts Guidelines Organic Survey Results Reported Study of Biodiesel Issued EPA Issues RFS Rules President Talks Biofuels With Governors Yamaha Shipping 2011 Rhinos For Summer Delivery Farm Anaerobic Digesters Will Be Topic Of February 16 Event ISU Scientist Honored for Research in Cereals and Oilseeds Survey: Demand for Local Fresh Foods Has Economic Benefits Valley Will Offer Variable Rate Irrigation Reaction to Proposed Budget Continues Funds Go to Animal Agriculture Research Funds Go to Animal Agriculture Research Researchers Find New Barley Breeding Techniques Evening News Focuses on Antimicrobials Evening News Focuses on Antimicrobials USDA'S NASS Taking ARMS Survey Grassley Anticipates Senate Work on Biodiesel Tax Credit Will Start Soon Poll Shows Iowans Want Biodiesel in State's Diesel Fuel Soybean Variety Selection Helps Control Sudden Death Syndrome Animal Activists Counterattack in Ohio Animal Activists Counterattack in Ohio Propane Group Offers Incentives to Buy/Test New Propane Equipment Proposed Budget for FY 2011 Sent to Congress Rural America Impacted by EPA Budget Transparent Health Care Bill Pushed by Republicans New Cattlemen's Beef Board Chair Speaks Out New Cattlemen's Beef Board Chair Speaks Out U.S Wheat Producers Benefit From Promotions Webinar Replay: Changing Role of Retailers and Dealers Explored Iowa Department of Agriculture May Have to Absorb Big Budget Cut Farm Bureau Says Proposed State Budget Reflects Need for Reform Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program Ranking Cutoff Is February 12 President Dedicating Cap-and-Trade Dollars Chorus of Praise for Trade and Export Remarks in State of Union Fewer Disorders in Poultry Confirmed Fewer Disorders in Poultry Confirmed Need for Labeling of Mechanically Tenderized Meat Iowa Beginning Farmers Conference "Looks To The Future" Feb. 6 USDA Purchasing Products for Nutrition Programs Corn Specialist Seeks Clues for Surprising Corn Harvest ISU Extension Offers Soil Fertility Short Course Sharpen Your Grain Marketing Plan With Crop Insurance You Can Tour Niche Pork Facilities This Winter Virtually You Can Tour Niche Pork Facilities This Winter Virtually Governor Culver Signs Iowa Property Tax Relief Legislation Government Purchasing Dry Edible Beans for Haiti Reaction to State of the Union Address Small Steps on Health Care Planned in House USDA Issues First NE3 Designation Lincoln Recognized by Wheat Industry New Publication Helps Farmers Examine Fuel Savings From Limiting Field Operations 4-H Is Creating More Options for Youth and Their Families ATVs Make Work Fun for Horse Owners Capello Corn Heads Now Available in U.S. Horsch Introduces Cougar Planting System Yamaha Offers "Starting Power" Backup Generator New Holland Offers High Clearance Tractor for Specialty Crops Insure Crops By Enterprise Unit Or Optional Unit? Administration Rephrasing Cap-and-Trade R-CALF USA Questions Beef Checkoff Direction R-CALF USA Questions Beef Checkoff Direction Montana Beef Processing Plants to Open Montana Beef Processing Plants to Open Love of Farming Beats Economic Factors in Childrens' Decision to Farm 'Hearts & Homes' Is New Feature at Historic Wallace House Senate Rejects Budget Commission Obama Wants Spending Freeze Carcass Irradiation Not Moving Within USDA Carcass Irradiation Not Moving Within USDA House Leader Speaks on Smaller Health Care Bill Wetlands Reserve Program Applications Due by February 10 What's Ahead for Ethanol, Biodiesel Industry in 2010? Vote on Deficit-Reduction Panel Expected Tuesday Organizations Concerned with Reinsurance Agreement Dean Foods Purchase Being Challenged Monsanto Receives Mexican Import Approval New Bioproducts Web Site Introduced Italian Sausage Products Recalled So Many SCN-Resistant Varieties - Which Should You Plant? How Many Corn Traits Do You Need In The Hybrids You Plant? New Study: Renewable Fuels Are Backbone of Resilient Iowa Economy Study Shows Pork Safe After Pigs Exposed to H1N1 Virus Study Shows Pork Safe After Pigs Exposed to H1N1 Virus Tyson Shifting Some Production South Tyson Shifting Some Production South Wind Could Power Portion of Eastern Grid EPA Rejects Confidential Business Information Excuse ARRA Funds to Support Rural Businesses Iowa Power Farming Show Is Feb. 2 to 4 In Des Moines Iowa Women In Agriculture To Hold Regional Meetings New Information Available to Help You Select SCN-Resistant Soybeans ISU Extension Holding Winter Cow Series Meetings in 11 Locations ISU Extension Holding Winter Cow Series Meetings in 11 Locations Ask Seedsmen Lots of Questions This Year IFVGA Annual Meeting Welcomes Beginning Farmers, Agritourism Interests USDA Launches Program To Increase Construction Of High Tunnels To Expand Growing Season How Are SURE Crop Disaster Payments Figured? Non Ag Groups Interested in Cap-and-Trade Regulations FSA Offering Web-Based Payment Calculator Renewable Fuels Adopted by Navy and Marine Corps Former ISU Dean Of Agriculture Lee Kolmer Dies At Age 82 2010 Looks to Be Slow for Equipment Sales. How to Use Yield Trial Data to Make Crop Variety Selections Free H1N1 Vaccinations Will Be Offered at Iowa Pork Congress Free H1N1 Vaccinations Will Be Offered at Iowa Pork Congress Dry Manure Applicator Certificate Workshops Offered By Extension USDA Redefines Term 'Actively Engaged' In Farming Sioux City Hog Processing Facility Closing Sioux City Hog Processing Facility Closing RMA Urged Not to Cut Crop Insurance Brown Becomes 41st Republican Senator Alaska Senator Wants to Stop EPA from Regulating GHG Portable Slaughter Facilities Have Economic Potential Portable Slaughter Facilities Have Economic Potential NCGA Opposes House Cap-and-Trade ISU Working to Increase Amount of Distillers Grains Fed 4-H Supporters Are More Than Half-Way to Meeting Fundraising Match Webinar Replay: Changing Role of Retailers and Dealers Explored NFU Pleas for Haitian Support Broader Swine Disease Surveillance Program Sought Broader Swine Disease Surveillance Program Sought Senate Health Care Bill is Better Than Nothing Pest Detection Dollars Now Available Company Recalls Ground Beef Company Recalls Ground Beef HSUS Targets Restaurant Chains Growth Energy CEO Speaks Out on Renewable Fuels Tyson Settlement Approved Tyson Settlement Approved ISU Researchers Help Complete Sequencing of Soybean Genome Tune in to Practical Farmers of Iowa for Winter Farminar Series Commodity Classic Early Registration Discount Ends January 20 Monsanto Scores a Pair of Favorable Court Decision Crunch Time for Health Care Reform Bison Meat and Producers in High Demand Bison Meat and Producers in High Demand Position Limits Supported by NFU 25X25 Wants Biodiesel Incentive Package Passed Consideration Continues on Financial System Reform NACD Gains New Leader ARRA Broadband Funds Announced Iowans Invited to Comment on Specialty Crop Block Grant Priorities History Channel to Showcase Iowa State Egg Experts ISU Extension Is Holding Winter Cow Series Meetings Farm Bureau Reports Marketbasket Survey Results U.S. Food Being Sent to Haiti Health Care Bill Being Readied Obama Administration Meeting With Russia This Week Obama Administration Meeting With Russia This Week Expanding Opportunities for Corn Growers Key Focus of Ethanol Committee Tune-In To Feb. 1 Webcast On Climate Change Policy Federal Budget Deficit Needs to Be Brought Under Control ISU Horticulture Student Urges Growers to Print Messages on Apples 2010 Iowa Legislative Session Gets Underway USDA Joins Fuel Up to Play 60 Campaign Environment vs. Genetics in 2009 USB Chairman Looks at 2010 with Great Optimism Justice Wants Monsanto Trait Information NCGA Policy Being Formed This Week Animal ID Principles Sent to Congress Animal ID Principles Sent to Congress Research Focuses on Potential Problems Feeding DDGS Research Focuses on Potential Problems Feeding DDGS John Deere Risk Protection Ties Crop Insurance to Equipment Used We Burn Some Wire with Lincoln's New PowerMIG 216 New Media Campaign Promotes Importance of Biodiesel in Iowa Soybean Rust Still Being Watched, Although It Didn't Reach Iowa in 2009 Product Ideas for Keeping your Horse Drinking Water in Winter Crustbuster Unveils Trio of New Drills Like Chaff In The Wind Sta-bil Now Available for Diesel Fuel Fold It Up For Easy Transport Don't Underestimate Capability Of Corn Farmers To Produce Farmers Shatter Corn Production Records on Fewer Acres Study Claims Ethanol is Crowding Out Wildlife Plan Ahead For Crop Insurance In 2010 Pomeroy Strives to Halt EPA Regulation of Greenhouse Gases AFBF Delegates take Action and Hold Reelection California Board Approves Low Carbon Fuels Standard Tyson Suit Settled Tyson Suit Settled ISU Ag Official Tours Agricultural Colleges in War-Torn Iraq Practical Farmers of Iowa Cooperators Meeting Is Feb. 11 & 12 New AD 2 Technology From Firestone USDA Looking for Changes in Crop Numbers Farm Bureau Delegates Send Strong Climate Message Farmers Telling Ag's Story Online Farmers Telling Ag's Story Online Beef Cattle Prices May Rise This Year as Herd Shrinks Beef Cattle Prices May Rise This Year as Herd Shrinks Report Confirms Production Demand Can Be Met Report Confirms Production Demand Can Be Met Local Dairy Days in Eastern Iowa Feature Farm Profitability U.S. Grains Council Names Keith Heffernan Senior Vice President Illinois Farmer Inventor Wins Top Farm Bureau Award HSUS is Using Religion to its Advantage HSUS is Using Religion to its Advantage Collegiate Ag Leadership Program Available Winter Winds Are Generating Electricity for City of Ames and ISU 2010 Iowa Beef Quality Assurance Award Winner Honored 2010 Iowa Beef Quality Assurance Award Winner Honored New Soybean Varieties Can Help Growers Tackle Aphids Iowa Electric Co-ops Investing More Money in Energy-Efficiency Programs Practical Farmers Of Iowa Cooperators Meeting Is Feb. 11 & 12 Stenholm: Political System Absolutely Broken Highlights from Day One at American Farm Bureau Annual Meeting Horner Challenges Climate Change Data Afghan Farmers Receiving Help from Several Government Agencies Farm Bureau President Tells Critics: Circumstances Have Changed Funds to Benefit Clean Energy Manufacturing CFTC Chairman Calls for Regulations Legislation Would Stop EPA Regulation Implementation Organization Questions HSUS Status as Nonprofit I-29 Dairy Conference Helps Sustain Dairy Families And Farms I-29 Dairy Conference Helps Sustain Dairy Families And Farms USDA's SURE Program Up and Running for Payment On 2008 Crop Loss Claims Iowa DNR Seeking Comments On Final Manure Application Rules Corn Lost To Snow Could Amount To 100 Million Bushels High Powered Lineup for AFBF Annual Meeting in Seattle Annual USDA Outlook Forum Set Two Key Programs Supporting Livestock Producers Slaughter Calls Russian Ban a Wake-up Call Auto Maker Keynoting National Ethanol Conference Pork Board to Meet in Ohio Pork Board to Meet in Ohio 2009 Iowa Beef Scholarship Extravaganza Champions Iowa Renewable Fuels Summit and Trade Show Is January 25 Pulsar Herbicide Registered for Use in Wheat, Barley Syngenta Announces Licensing Agreements Two Senate Democrats Stepping Down NFU Has Goals for Health Care Reform Health Care Reform Awaits Compromise Veal and Lamb Merger Announced Veal and Lamb Merger Announced Companion School Food Safety Bill Introduced Dairy Advisory Committee Announced Dairy Advisory Committee Announced At Decade's End, Ethanol Has Arrived 2010 Iowa Legislative Outlook - It's All About the Budget 2010 EQIP Applications For Conservation Cost-Share Due January 29 Monsanto Annual Research and Development Pipeline Updat Cargill Testing E. Coli Vaccine Cargill Testing E. Coli Vaccine Westchester Group Scholarship Offered Senators Speak Out Against Taiwan Move Senators Speak Out Against Taiwan Move 2010 On-Farm Network Conference Scheduled for February 23 "Gathering of the Green" Returns to Quad Cities March 17-20 USDA, USTR Disappointed in Taiwan Legislative Decision USDA, USTR Disappointed in Taiwan Legislative Decision Louisiana Ag Commissioner Warns of Far-Reaching Carbon Laws Vilsack Wants Another Look at Climate Models Constitutionality of Health Care Reform Being Questioned Next Track of Health Care Uncertain CCC Rate Announced for January Recommendations for Managing White Mold in Soybeans in 2010 Crop Insurance Deadline Announced for Spring Planted Crops Next 'Money Talk' Class For Women Begins In February Average Value of Iowa Farmland Declines by 2% in 2009 SURE Program Sign-Up Begins Monday Agreement Reached on Producer Information USDA Redefines the Term 'Actively Engaged' Pilgrim's Pride Settles With Government Growth Energy Responds to Proposed Regulation Hog Economist Retires from Univeristy of Missouri-Columbia Hog Economist Retires from Univeristy of Missouri-Columbia New Publication Helps Farmers Track, Compare Energy Use and Costs USDA to Measure Financial Health of the Ag Industry Farmers Can Extend Community Support Through New Award Program Using A Basis Contract Is Recommended For Marketing Corn Farmers Need to Check for Skin Cancer USDA Program Offers Support for Solutions Monsanto Won't Force a Switch to New Roundup Seed Annual Survey Shows Trends in Ownership of Iowa Farmland Reaction to Potential Taiwan Beef Restrictions Reaction to Potential Taiwan Beef Restrictions SURE Sign Up Begins Next Week Ban of Chlorine Treated Poultry Implemented by Russia Ban of Chlorine Treated Poultry Implemented by Russia HSUS Petition Drive Begins in Missouri HSUS Petition Drive Begins in Missouri Syngenta Buys Potatoes to Feed Hungry Corn Board Nominations Sought Iowa Land Investment Expo to Evaluate Farmland as Enduring Asset What Is The Situation With Herbicide Resistant Weeds in Iowa? A Preview Of Iowa Cattlemen's Association Annual Convention A Preview Of Iowa Cattlemen's Association Annual Convention AMI Defends Mechanical Tenderization AMI Defends Mechanical Tenderization Taiwan to Restart Beef Ban California Fuel Rules Called Illegal Water, Environmental Project Grants Announced "Livestock Industry Bouncing Back" Is Theme of Meeting Series "Livestock Industry Bouncing Back" Is Theme of Meeting Series Iowans Among New Crew Serving on National Biodiesel Board Soybean Rust Program Retooled for 2010 SURE Program Up and Running Agrium Clears FTC Hurdle Congresswoman Calls for Labels After Latest Recall Time Running Out for Biodiesel Credit Iowa Corn Growers Announce 2010 Crop Fair Schedule Leopold Center Study Compares Local, Non-Local Food Prices Renewable Fuel Rules Could be Published Soon Agency Says Public Should Know Chemical Inert Ingredients Leadership Named for Senate Ag Subcommittees Crop Advantage Series Provides Latest Crop Production Information 2009 Corn Crop and DDGS Must Be Thoroughly Examined for Mycotoxin Iowa to Participate in USDA's New 'High Tunnel' Pilot Study Iowa Teens Form Nation's First High School Chapter of Pheasants Forever Questions After a Tough Year Banks Get Two Ethanol Plants As Hawkeye Energy Declares Chapter 11 New ISU Web Page Can Help You Manage Livestock Financial Issues Christmas Eve Action Aims to Stop EPA Moves Christmas Eve Action Aims to Stop EPA Moves Christmas Eve Vote by Senate Moves Healthcare Changes Forward National Energy Lab Working With Sorghum High Tunnels to Be Researched Pfizer H1N1 Vaccine Approved Pfizer H1N1 Vaccine Approved Pfizer H1N1 Vaccine Approved Census of Horticulture Underway Iowa to Host Training on Use of New National Swine Nutrition Guide Iowa to Host Training on Use of New National Swine Nutrition Guide Estimate Your Crop Production Costs For 2010 Two Iowa Farmers Re-Elected to Board of Farm Credit Services Final Crop Survey: Snow Keeps 2009 Harvest From Wrapping Up Health Care Vote Thursday Morning Hawkeye Renewables Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy RFS Information Inadequate NCBA Supports Interstate Shipments Survey Results of Soybean Farmers Reported Canada's Sow Reduction Numbers Reported Vaccines Developed for E-Coli in Calves Vaccines Developed for E-Coli in Calves NCBA Facing Structural Change Economics Professor Named Associate Dean for Extension at ISU Webster City Woman Drives Home a Winner for Iowa Corn USDA's SURE Program Supplements Crop Insurance New Pork and Poultry Quotas Set by Russia New Pork and Poultry Quotas Set by Russia Launch of South Korean Burger a Success Launch of South Korean Burger a Success Potash Prices to Rise NCGA Begins Podcast Series Closed-Loop Beef Operation Planned for New York State Closed-Loop Beef Operation Planned for New York State FSIS Seeks Meat Labeling Changes RFA Wants California's New Fuels Standard Stopped Corn Storage Tips Offered Essay Contest Open to Students Iowa Biodiesel Plant Gets Grant to Test Exciting New Technology Iowa Farmer Tells European Officials Why He Plants Biotech Crops Weakened Climate Change Agreement Reached Senate Reaches Agreement on Health Care Reform Climate Legislation Can Benefit Farmers and Ranchers USDA Purchasing Cheese USDA Purchasing Cheese Court of Appeals Sides With Packer Court of Appeals Sides With Packer National Corn Yield Contest Winners Announced Immigration Reform Legislation Introduced Lack of Congressional Action Brings Blue Christmas for Iowa Biodiesel Producers How to Minimize SDS and White Mold Risk to Same Soybean Field Another New Name in the Seed Business Get Organized With Cable Caddy Yetter Works on Compatibility Follow the Narrow Way Narrow-Pulling Air Drill 2009 Iowa Farm And Rural Life Poll Results Now Available Average Value of Iowa Farmland Declines By 2% In 2009 RR Alfalfa Up For Comment -- Again USDA Announces New Restrictions on Emergency Dairy Aid President Speaks in Copenhagen Clark Warns Against Continuing Oil Imports Pressure Mounting on Health Care Reform Broadband Developmental Funds Released Forest Service Developing New Plan More Members of Congress Step Forward on EPA Resolution of Disapproval Dordt College Ag Department Releases 2009 Test Plot Results Soil Management and Environment Web Site Launched by ISU Extension So Many Resistant Soybean Varieties, So Little Time … Average Value of Iowa Farmland Declines By 2% In 2009 Dairy Financial Aid Being Offered Dairy Financial Aid Being Offered Health Care Reform Struggling Estate Tax Extension Blocked Greenhouse Gas Alliance Formed Judge says Poultry Litter Not Solid Waste New Publication Explains Electrical Demand and Three-Phase Motor Use Weed Resistance Spreading Rapidly - Two New Species Confirmed in Iowa Managing Crop Risks And Revenue In 2010 Lieberman Leaning Toward Health Care Bill Estate Tax Exemption in Question Dairy Producers Pledge to Reduce Emissions Disapproval Resolution Announced Against EPA Biodiesel Action Alert Issued Confinement Site Manure Applicator Workshops Scheduled for 2010 Iowans Help Lead National Soybean Organizations Iowa Cattlemen To Set Priorities At Annual Convention January 5-6, 2010 Iowa's 2009 Corn Harvest 96% Finished As Of December 13 Dow AgroSciences Submits New Soybean Herbicide Tolerance Trait for USDA Review Governor Culver Addresses Iowa Farm Bureau, Answers Questions Monsanto Offers Six New Cotton Varieties U.S. Releases Climate Overview Alternative Cap-and-Trade Program Presented Trade With Cuba Will Be Easier Financial Regulatory Overhaul Bill Passes House NCGA to Release Yield Contest Results Medicare Eligibility Expansion Receives Key Support NASS Changing Hogs and Pigs Reporting Ranges USMEF Review Shows Positive Meat Trends USMEF Review Shows Positive Meat Trends USDA to Lobby Lawmakers with School Food Access to India Markets a Problem Basic Rules Still Apply When Buying Seed Trustee for Bankrupt Iowa Packer Asks Farmers to Return Payments Trustee for Bankrupt Iowa Packer Asks Farmers to Return Payments Choose Wisely When Selecting Corn Hybrids to Plant in 2010 Iowa's Continuing Budget Woes Hit Property Taxpayers Hard Iowans Dodged A Bullet With The Blizzard Of 2009 Farm Energy Checkup Program Meetings Scheduled This Winter Food Safety Group Recomendation Implemented House Passes Biodiesel Tax Credit Extension Health Bill Vote Possible Before Christmas Framework for Energy Legislation Released Great Lakes Hybrids to Offer New and Expanded Seed Technologies Financial Reform Bill Vote on Friday Join Practical Farmers of Iowa at Their 2010 Annual Conference, 'Jubilee!' Russia Threatens to Close Border to U.S. Pork Leopold Project Looking at Alternative Biomass Crop Systems 2009 A Green Year for Farm Progress Show BASF Unveils Seed Treatment Web Site NCGA Scholarship Deadline Near Biofuels Reducing World Wide GHG Emissions Advocacy and Outreach Office Opens Coalition Backs Pump Tax Rollback ISU Conference to Discuss Farm Succession Plans Culver to Become Chair of National Governor's Biofuels Commission Basf Plant Science, Monsanto Enter Into Agreement For Nutridense Tips For Livestock Farmers To Prepare For Winter Storms Tips For Livestock Farmers To Prepare For Winter Storms Climate Change Conference Ready to Get Serious More Groups React Negatively to EPA Declaration More Groups React Negatively to EPA Declaration Expert Offers Tax Planning Tips Ag Groups File Brief in Alfalfa Case New Web Site Provides Support for Local Food Efforts in Iowa Nutrient-Rich Poultry Manure Is Good for Growing Crops Help Is Available To Analyze Your Farm's Financial Health Iowa’s 2009 Corn Harvest Is 94% Complete As Of December 6 Vilsack Announces Funding to Fight Bark Beetles Ag Leader Introduces New Precision Agriculture Tools New Biological Seed Treatment Provides Nematode Protection Reaction to EPA Greenhouse Announcement Mixed Senators Speak Out on Cap and Trade Second USDA Food Commodity Contracting Conference Announced President Lobbies for Health Care Small Plant Help-Desk Opened Iowa Seed Directory Offers Quality Seed Options Know the Difference Between Controlling Weeds and Managing Weeds Smartstax Corn Receives Import Approvals for Korea, Taiwan Corn Quality Issues Will Likely Lead To Channeling Two Days of Hearings Conclude with Concerns ARRA Funds Help Local Food Banks Cutting Edge Biorefinery Projects Receive Funds Poultry Calendar Available Poultry Calendar Available Look for Positives in a Nightmarish Fall Iowa Department of Agriculture Announces Plan to Cut Its Budget Southwire Introduces SureSeal Cable Prop-A-Gate Offers Helping Hand Lincoln Launches Light Viking Helmet Bigger and Faster Claas Rake Iowa Has New Law for Winter Application of Livestock Manure Bankruptcy Is An Option For Iowans With Unmanageable Debt Iowans Respond To EPA Announcement Of Delay On E15 Decision Groups Offer $3,500 Reward In Sioux County Livestock Vandalism Case ASA Announces New Officers Increased International Attendance at 2009 Farm Progress Show Feedlot Forum 2010 Series For Cattle Producers Begins In December NCBA Concerned With Banking Regulations Senate Ag Committee Moving on Financial Regulation Bill House Passes Permanent Estate Tax Relief Bill Clark Testifies at White House Jobs Summit RFA Leader Wants More Answers NASS Reports on Irrigation Use On-Farm Anaerobic Manure Digesters Are Focus of Dec. 9 Tour Farmers Save Up to 65% on Energy Costs With New Grain Drying Systems Something Nice For Gear-Head Farmers Congress Trying Again to Lift Trade Restrictions with Cuba H1N1 Identified in Turkey Flock H1N1 Identified in Turkey Flock GIPSA Issues New Full Disclosure Rule GIPSA Issues New Full Disclosure Rule Subcommittee Focuses on Climate Change Bill Grassley Wants Last Minute Inclusion in Summit Topic Legislation Would Change Meat and Poultry Inspection Rules Further Strengthening Of Cotton Research Workshops Can Help You Apply for Small-Farm, Rural Energy Grants Iowa Livestock Markets Offering Program on Proper Livestock Handling Iowa Livestock Markets Offering Program on Proper Livestock Handling Enjoy an Iowa-Grown Christmas Tree This Year EPA Delays E15 Determination Estate Tax Bill Up for Vote in House R-CALF Supports Interstate Shipments of State Inspected Meat CBO Report Receives Mixed Reviews Webinar Recap: Maximizing Your Purchasing Power for 2010 Webinar Recap: Maximizing Your Purchasing Power for 2010 Second Wave of H1N1 Has Peaked Five Individuals Appointed to Serve on State FSA Committee ISU Researcher Produces the Only H1N1 Vaccine Available for Swine EPA Announces Delay in E15 Decision Painfully Slow Iowa Corn Harvest Now 87% Complete EPA E15 Ruling Expected Tuesday CBO Reports Costs on Health Care Bill Justice Department Looking at Big Ag Businesses Chicken Council Questions Consumer Reports Survey Sorghum Producers Get Better Crop Insurance Elections Move Your Lower Quality Corn to Market First Five Iowa Watersheds to Take Part in Mississippi River Basin Initiative Late Harvest Raises Cash Flow Challenges Harvest Weight Limit Exemption Is Extended Another 30 Days Iowa Corn Indy 250 Will Return To Iowa Speedway In 2010 President to Attend Copenhagen Climate Talks Farmland Values Continue Slump Stats Show Safety Level of School Bound Beef Poll Shows Weakening Views of Climate Change Harvest Will End…Someday! Try These Welding Projects Late 2009 Harvest Is Causing Cash Flow Challenges For Farmers New Publication Explains Grain Test Weight, Unravels Misconceptions 2010 Energy Drilling Lease Sales Announced Bio-Oil and Biochar May be Future of Corn Stover Energy Department Supports Smart Grid Technologies Letter Asks NAIS be Shut Down Letter Asks NAIS be Shut Down Iowa Farmer Goes to Germany, Takes Part in Trade and Biotech Talks Iowa Farm Bureau to Hold 91st Annual Meeting Dec 2-3 in Des Moines Happy Thanksgiving!!! Happy Thanksgiving!!! Grass Hedges Do Protect Water Grass Hedges Do Protect Water Iowa Corn Harvest Now 78% Complete, Soybeans 98% Finished 2010 Scholars Program Details Released AMI Supports Interstate Commerce Rules Blender Pump Tax Fix Sought EPA Renews Agriculture Charter On Flu Vaccine List, Swine Workers Should Be 'At Least Equal' With Santa ISU Block and Bridle Club Receives National Recognition Cover Story of Science Magazine Features Corn and ISU Research Soil and Water Conservation Week Is November 22 to 28 in Iowa Lull in Climate Change Action Provides Time to Look Again Senate Ag Committee Focuses on Rural Economy Funds Will Help Mississippi River Basin Water Quality Funding Applications Open for Planning Activities Corn With Mold on Ears in the Field Should Be Tested for Mycotoxin Remembering Thanksgiving - It Is in Some Ways a Forgotten Holiday Senate Votes to Move to the Health Care Debate WTO Panels to Decide on COOL, EU Poultry Ban Disaster Assistance Bill Introduced Growth Energy Wants California's Public Comment Period Reopened Still Tilling Soybean Stubble….Why? Iowa to Host First USDA Meeting on 'Competition in Agriculture' Lack of Heat Unit Accumulation Marks 2009's Unusual Growing Season Tough 2009 Harvest—An Update To Frequently Asked Questions Should You Let Corn Stand In The Field Over Winter? Farm Financial Assistance Available From ISU Extension Ag Chair Schedules Two Field Meetings Meetings Set to Explore Competition and Regulatory Issues Corn Genome Sequencing Complete New Senate Health Care Bill Faces Rocky Future Farm/City Week Tackles Livestock Myths vs. Facts Ninth Annual Iowa Organic Conference To Be Held December 4-5 At Ames No Climate Change Bill This Year Committee Passes Food Safety Bill NFU Speaks Out on Child Nutrition Bill One-Year Extension of Current Estate Tax Looks Likely Senate Ag Committee Considers Financial Oversight Soybean Growers Concerned About Excessive Rail Freight Rates ISU Extension Offers Workshops for Manure and Nutrient Plan Writers Feeding Forages Is Focus of IFGC Conference Nov. 23-24 What's Your Type? (Soybean Cyst Nematode HG Type, That Is) Please Place Swine Workers on H1N1 Priority List with Santa Beef Checkoff Wants a Food Fight Beef Checkoff Wants a Food Fight Estate Tax Bill Could be Delayed Biodiesel Tax Credit Extension Introduced in House Nutrition Program Hearing Held Food Safety Bill Mark Up Scheduled Poultry Industry Cleaning Up Act Poultry Industry Cleaning Up Act Ag, Interior Departments Purchase Land Ideas Sought for Grass-Based Livestock Projects in Iowa Iowa's Family Beef Farmers Fuel Hungry Runners McDonald's and Suppliers Taking on Activist Claims Concerning Slaughter McDonald's and Suppliers Taking on Activist Claims Concerning Slaughter Livestock From Everywhere at NAILE Show Livestock From Everywhere at NAILE Show Propane Supply a Concern Survey Reveals Highest Rate of Food Insecurity on Record Pork Production Must Be Cut Pork Production Must Be Cut Ag Committee to Hold Two Hearings This Week Iowa Corn Harvest Now 59% Done, Soybean Harvest Is 96% Complete Iowa Ranks Third In ACRE Enrollment For 2009 Oil and Natural Gas Lease Sale Announced JBS in Financial Struggle JBS in Financial Struggle NutriSphere- N and AVAIL Can Help Fertilizer Efficiency Iowan Named 2010 Young Soybean Leader in National Program New Way to Rent Land: Use an Internet-based Service Banking Bill has Critics Household Food Security Report to be Issued More Doubt Over Climate Change Legislation Don't Let High Corn Yield Numbers Shock You Problems With 2009 Harvest Have Implications for Crop Insurance Iowa Food Cooperative Marks Successful First Year Iowa Corn Harvest This Year Will Still Be A Record This Fall's Crop Is "Harvest Of A Lifetime" For Some Iowa Farmers New Holland Launches Largest Capacity Combine Group Puts Animal Well-Being Tools Online EPA May Not Make E15 Decision by Dec. 1 Deadline Ag and Energy Departments Fund Biofuels Research Letter Focuses on Climate Bill's Emission Allowances Can You Ask Crop Insurance Company For More Time? USAID Appointee Faces Challenges Senator Wants Slaughter of Downer Cattle Stopped Senator Wants Slaughter of Downer Cattle Stopped Conference Will Tell How America's Bioeconomy Can Clean the Planet Energy Demonstration Grants Awarded to Three Iowa Farmers New Fungicide Registered Dairy Group Leaders Outline Actions Seed Tech Agreement Announced ASA Presents its Doha Priorities Chemical Decline in Waterways Good, Thanks to Producers Mexican Pork Demand Responding to Industry Messages Mexican Pork Demand Responding to Industry Messages Guidance Provided by RMA for Extension on Crop Insurance Revised Label for PowerFlex Herbicide How Much Energy Is Being Used on Your Farm? H1N1 Vaccine for Hogs Available Soon H1N1 Vaccine for Hogs Available Soon U.S. Farmers Producing Ethanol Needs for Coming Year Banking Regulation Bill Introduced Senate Health Care Debate Could Start Next Week Extension Support Given to Military Families Farmers Learn About Harvesting Cobs, Stover for Cellulosic Ethanol The First Domesticated Pig Genome Is Sequenced Iowa Soybean Association Announces New Membership Structure Iowa Will Benefit as Swine Genome Project Completes First Draft Iowa Will Benefit as Swine Genome Project Completes First Draft Combines Running Non-stop, As 34% Of Iowa Corn Is Now Harvested Agritechnica Preview Shows New Products Agritechnica Preview Shows New Products Senate Climate Debate Picking Up Some Steam Secretary Seeking Support for Child Nutrition Reauthorization Influenza Information Help Available to Pork Producers Influenza Information Help Available to Pork Producers Cuba Trade Bill Needs Support Conference to Highlight New Technology in Beef Seedstock Production Conference to Highlight New Technology in Beef Seedstock Production Some Farmers and Elevators on Allocation for Propane to Dry Grain Integrated Crop Management Conference Is Set For Dec. 2-3 at Ames ISU Extension Offers 2009 Ag Chemical Dealer Updates USDA Announces National Pork Board Appointments Farmers Under Stress Are Encouraged To Use ISU Extension Resources Health Care Bill Narrowly Passes House Oversight of H1N1 in Pigs is Working Oversight of H1N1 in Pigs is Working Ohio Issue 2 Vote Just the Beginning Ohio Issue 2 Vote Just the Beginning Alliance Voices Views of Latest Clean Air Legislation October 2009 Was Wettest October Since 1881, Making Harvest Slowest In 50 Years Farmers May Want To Ask Crop Insurance Company for More Time Feeding Forages To Livestock Is Focus Of IFGC Conference Workmaster Is New Moniker for New Holland Tractors Toro Introduces Layflat Hose Swisher Offers Clean Driveways Reinke Ups Warranty on Irrigation Rigs New Draper Platform from Deere Easy Does It During Corn Drying This Fall Dry Soybeans With Natural Air Or Should You Add Some Heat? Beginning Farmer Resource Being Developed Pro Football Player Promoting Green Fuels Iowa Corn Growers Association Issues Harvest Advisory Cap-and-Trade Legislation Passes Out of Committee President to Meet with House Democrats County Committee Elections Begin Food Commodity Contracting Opportunities Announced Use Wise Soil Management to Handle Ruts in Fields Radio Ads Are Encouraging Iowans to Help Support ISU Deere Offers 5D-5M Series Utility Tractors Climate Legislation Receives Chamber of Commerce Support EPA Proposes New Pesticide Labeling Ohio Voters Buoy Animal Agriculture Ohio Voters Buoy Animal Agriculture Farm Groups Push Biodiesel Tax Incentive House to Vote on Health Care Reform Saturday Senate Health Care Bill Still Has Challenges Monsanto Breaks Ground for Research Site in Texas Iowa Ag Department Moves Weights and Measures Lab to Iowa Falls Corn Mold and Mycotoxin Issues Showing Up in More Iowa Fields Corn Cob Harvesting Demos Attract Farmers Ohio Voters Approve Issue 2 Ohio Voters Approve Issue 2 Ohio Voters Approve Issue 2 Ohio Voters Approve Issue 2 Ohio Voters Approve Issue 2 EPA Holds Panel on Atrazine AFBF Leader Against Health Care Act Health Care Reform Still A Ways Off Markup of Clean Energy Bill Begins in Senate USDA Funds Farmer and Rancher Education Expanded Market Access for U.S. Beef to Taiwan Expanded Market Access for U.S. Beef to Taiwan Expanded Market Access for U.S. Beef to Taiwan China Ends Ban on U.S. Pork, Giving Iowa Hog Producers Hope China Ends Ban on U.S. Pork, Giving Iowa Hog Producers Hope Iowa Keeps No. 2 Spot Among States in Production of Wind Power Senate Climate Change Bill Faces Republican Boycott USDA Finds Pandemic H1N1 in Indiana Commercial Swine USDA Finds Pandemic H1N1 in Indiana Commercial Swine USDA Finds Pandemic H1N1 in Indiana Commercial Swine Ohio's Issue 2 Vote is Tuesday Ohio's Issue 2 Vote is Tuesday Wet Harvest Weather Keeps Iowa Farmers Frustrated 2009's Tough Harvest - Answers to Questions About Drying Wet Grain Farming Technology Advances with Ag Leader, AutoFarm Alliance Millions in Organic Research, Education and Extension Grants Awarded Carbofuran Residues Revoked by EPA Climate Markup Could Happen Tuesday Swine Genome Project Clears Hurdle Swine Genome Project Clears Hurdle Beef Industry Group Questions EPA Dust Rule Analysis Beef Industry Group Questions EPA Dust Rule Analysis Delayed Harvest Can Affect Ear Rots and Mycotoxin Contamination Iowa Ethanol Sales Declining as Nation Ramps Up HSUS Video Gets USDA Reaction Wet Weather Continues To Hinder Iowa Harvest Check With Crop Insurance People If You See Mold On Your Corn Application Process For 2008 SURE Program Payments Begins Nov. 2, 2009 Biotech Tools Receive Approval House Subcommittee Hears about Challenges to Next-Gen Fuels Assessing Forage Quality New Opportunity for U.S. Sorghum in Morocco ASA Ready to Celebrate 90 Years House Health Care Package Introduced Testimony Continues on Climate Change Legislation Debate Heating Up on Ohio's Proposition 2 Debate Heating Up on Ohio's Proposition 2 Debate Heating Up on Ohio's Proposition 2 Debate Heating Up on Ohio's Proposition 2 Debate Heating Up on Ohio's Proposition 2 New Ram HD Trucks Made for Towing Sign-up Period for 2010 DCP and 2010 ACRE Programs Has Started Iowa Fertilizer Dealers Reaffirm Fall Nitrogen Code of Practice Earlier Observations About Disease Come Home to Roost Syngenta Donates to Farm Rescue, Feeding America Where is my farm program payment check from USDA? Here's an Overview of NRCS Water System Standards Here's an Overview of NRCS Water System Standards Here's an Overview of NRCS Water System Standards Can Public Option Garner Senate Votes? Interior Spending Bill Tackles EPA GHG Reporting Rule Implementation of Farm Bill's Horticulture and Organic Ag Provisions Examined Deputy Secretary Merrigan Shows New Face of the USDA Cattle "Crush Margin" Marketing Tool Now Available Online From ISU Rural Health Care Focus of New Report E. Coli Eradication Act in Works Bill Introduced to Increase FDA Oversight of Food USDA Supports Water Quality Protection and Conservation Healthcare Debate May Begin on House Floor Next Week Farm-State Senators Raise Climate Concerns Proving Your 2009 Harvest Yields Is Advised Adjust Fertilizer Application Rates as Crop Yields Increase It Was a Phenomenal Year for U.S. Soybean Exports USDA Price Support Program Sign-up Begins For 2010 Only 12% Of Iowa Corn Crop Is Harvested - Nearly 3 Weeks Behind Normal Senate Climate Change Details Unveiled Could See Health Care Bills from House and Senate This Week? RFA Looking for More User-Friendly Loan Guarantee Program Smart Choices Responds to FDA Concerns Limit Is Increased for FSA Maximum Guaranteed Loan Amount Iowa Farmers Show Strong Interest in USDA's New Conservation Stewardship Program Climate Change Hearing Set Is Public Option In or Out of Health Care Reform? Report Quantifies Cap-and-Trade Effect on Fuel Costs Critics Argue Against Biofuels Campaign Asks USDA to stop New Facilities Loans Campaign Asks USDA to stop New Facilities Loans Campaign Asks USDA to stop New Facilities Loans Have MIG Will Travel Ranger 225 Enclosed Case Welder Sparks to Life Miller Creates a 40-foot Extension to the Work Area Easier Pulls on Swisher's Log Splitters Shuttle Shift Available on Kioti DS Terex Track Delivers the Goods Conservation Reserve Program Payments Being Issued By USDA Livestock Producers Face Explosion Hazards When Manure Pumping LS Hits the U.S. Market with New Line of Compact Utility Tractors Trait Talk, Price, Dominate Seed Sales Market You Should Be Keeping Good Records Of What Each Field Yields This Fall USDA's Second-in-Command Learns About Biofuels Priorities of Child Nutrition Reauthorization Will be Improved Access, Quality and Performance Crop Quality Being Questioned by U.S. Customers House Democrats Add Federal Antitrust Exemption in Health Care Bill USDA's Second-in-Command Learns About Biofuels USDA Recommends Changes to Milk Marketing Order USDA Recommends Changes to Milk Marketing Order USDA Recommends Changes to Milk Marketing Order Crop Research Grants Released How Do You Dry Soybeans? That's a Question Farmers Are Asking Biodiesel Returns More Energy to The Earth Than Ever Pork Industry on Road to Recovery Pork Industry on Road to Recovery Pork Industry on Road to Recovery Blue Jackets Descend Upon Indianapolis Could House Be Near Passing Health Care Reform? Likely to be Changes in USDA Budget Derivatives Regulations Passed by House Ag Committee Soybean Yields Are Disappointing for Fields Hit By SDS in 2009 Delayed Harvest Conditions Putting Corn Crop at Risk for Lodging Results of NCGA Survey Released USDA Releases DCP and ACRE Numbers FSIS Wants Input on Proposed Regulations Kioti Enters the UTV Market National FFA Convention This Week ISA's Wright Receives ISU's Henry A. Wallace Award Dairy Industry Reducing Its Environmental Impact Dairy Industry Reducing Its Environmental Impact Annual Tri-State Ag Lender's Seminar To Be Held Nov. 5 In Dubuque ISU Agriculture Pavilion Project Receives Jump-Start Gift Small Tractor Market In Upheaval Wet Grain Is Aggravating Iowa's 2009 Delayed Corn Harvest Pork Industry Gains Ally in Fighting Inaccurate Label for H1N1 Pork Industry Gains Ally in Fighting Inaccurate Label for H1N1 Pork Industry Gains Ally in Fighting Inaccurate Label for H1N1 Summit Held in Kansas City on Wheat Industry Health Care Reform Negotiations Could Be Finished in Senate This Week NCGA Releases Educational Film Iowa-Minnesota Drainage Forum at ISU in Ames November 10 Soybeans Have Some Quality Issues With 2009's Wet, Late Harvest Fort Dodge Animal Health Future Undecided Fort Dodge Animal Health Future Undecided Fort Dodge Animal Health Future Undecided Fort Dodge Animal Health Future Undecided Fort Dodge Animal Health Future Undecided CCC Accepts Butter Bid CCC Accepts Butter Bid H1N1 Confirmed in Hogs from Minnesota State Fair H1N1 Confirmed in Hogs from Minnesota State Fair H1N1 Confirmed in Hogs from Minnesota State Fair Minnesota State Fair H1N1 Cases Have No Animal Connection Yet Minnesota State Fair H1N1 Cases Have No Animal Connection Yet Minnesota State Fair H1N1 Cases Have No Animal Connection Yet EPA Plans Clean Water Act Enforcement R-CALF USA Expresses Deep Disappointment Farmer from Ireland Wins 2009 Kleckner Trade & Technology Award Iowa Learning Farm to Host Strip till Field Day at Emmetsburg Field Molds Are Corn Quality Issue For Some Fields In 2009 NCGA CEO to Serve with Waterways Council Corn Quality Is An Issue With 2009 Harvest In Iowa Handling and Storing Iowa's Big, Wet Corn Crop Is A Challenge Program Honors Ph.D. Candidates Ohio Agriculture Rallies Support for Issue 2 USA Today Editorial Draws Fire from NCGA USDA Study Will Produce New Information Specialty Crops Grants Awarded Northey Elected to Committee of State Ag Departments Association Ten Iowa Breeders Who Registered the Most Angus Cattle This Year Ten Iowa Breeders Who Registered the Most Angus Cattle This Year Bill Gates Calls For A 'New Green Revolution' To Support World's Poorest Farmers World Food Prize Receives Contribution From Soybean Farmers No Final Counter-Cyclical Payments for Peanuts, Corn, Grain Sorghum and Soybeans New Research Supports Biodiesel Production Senate Debating 2010 Energy-Water Appropriations Bill USDA Announces The Start of Livestock Disaster Assistance Programs Iowa Egg Farmers Committed to Doing Things Right Fields of Hope Harvest Celebration Near Polk City October 17 Disparity in Rural Health Care Addressed by Vilsack Hard Freeze Ends 2009 Growing Season In Iowa Health Reform Makes it Through Finance Committee Compared to 2008 Beef and Pork Exports Still Lagging Compared to 2008 Beef and Pork Exports Still Lagging Compared to 2008 Beef and Pork Exports Still Lagging Compared to 2008 Beef and Pork Exports Still Lagging Coccidiosis Must Be Closely Managed Coccidiosis Must Be Closely Managed Unique Seed Corn Sales Program to Benefit Iowa FFA Organic Initiative Highlights USDA's 2009 EQIP Program in Iowa Obama's Deputy Secretary of Agriculture to Speak At ISU October 20 Proposed Consumer Legislation Needs Strong State Role New Iowa Task Force To Boost Farm Energy Conservation and Efficiency Students To Get Hands-On Experience With High Tech Tractor Think Hard Before Selling Raw Milk Think Hard Before Selling Raw Milk Think Hard Before Selling Raw Milk USDA Expects Dairy Demand to Rebound USDA Expects Dairy Demand to Rebound USDA Expects Dairy Demand to Rebound Senate Finance Committee Votes Tuesday on Health Bill H1N1 Incidents Are Increasing H1N1 Incidents Are Increasing H1N1 Incidents Are Increasing October Estimate Shows Iowa Harvesting Record Corn Yield This Fall Farmers Show Strong Interest in USDA's New CSP Program Iowa State Professor to Speak at Genomics Event USDA's New Conservation Stewardship Program Has Continuous Sign-up OTC Derivatives Discussion Draft Introduced Medical Malpractice is Key Section of Health Care Reform Growth Energy Asks California to 'Do Low-Carbon Right' Electric Rates Are Dropping ISU Precision Farming Expo Brings Technology And Farmers Together CCC Supports Dairy Industry Through Sale of Butter CCC Supports Dairy Industry Through Sale of Butter Fall Is Great Time to Sample Soil for Soybean Cyst Nematode Iowa Youth Plan "Biofuel Blast" With 4-H National Experiment Heavy Duty Trucks Now Get Rain-X Wiper Blades Portable Solar Power Comes From SunPod Upgrade Milo Harvest With Improved Flexo-Guards Featherlite Offers New 8117 Model Livestock Trailer Across-The-Board Budget Cut Will Affect All Iowans—Ag Included Iowa Farm Bureau Disappointed In Culver's Decision To Order Budget Cut Iowa May See Grain Piled On The Ground This Fall Flurry Of Forage Questions Come With First Fall Frost DFA and Dean Sued for Price-Fixing DFA and Dean Sued for Price-Fixing DFA and Dean Sued for Price-Fixing Atrazine to Undergo Comprehensive Review Ag Secretary Launches NIFA Report Issued on Rural Health Care Coverage CAP Awards Announced R-CALF Wants Deal Denied R-CALF Wants Deal Denied R-CALF Wants Deal Denied FSA Loans Now Available Iowa Schools Can Apply for Biodiesel Backer Awards State Watershed Review Board Approves Funds for 13 Iowa Projects Company Sequences Canola Genome Callisto Xtra Herbicide Combines Two Modes of Action Conference Committee Includes NBAF Funding CBO Reports on Finance Committee Health Care Bill Support Program Sign-up Begins CSP Program Experiences Strong Sign-up Sorghum Checkoff Establishes Web Presence October Is Prime Time for Iowa Grown Apples and Pumpkins Leopold Center Study: Local Foods Could Bring Jobs to Southeast Iowa Give The Gift Of Grain To Benefit Iowa 4-H Study Released that Non-Cage Eggs Would Raise Prices Increase in Foreign Owned U.S. Ag Land Finace Vote on Health Care Pushed Back Study Considers Holstein Production and Reproduction Study Considers Holstein Production and Reproduction Study Considers Holstein Production and Reproduction Water and Environmental Project Funds Released Iowa Soybean Association Moves to New Building and New Location Pioneer Hi-Bred Announces Seed Treatment Offerings for Corn, Soybean Growers Taiwan Agricultural Trade Goodwill Mission Stops in Iowa Kinze Offers the Industry's First Factory Optional Planter Scale Package Wet Weather Still Delaying Iowa Crop Maturity And Harvest Changes to Climate Change Legislation Requested by BIO Soybean Rust Found in Illinois Controversial Dairy Funds Center of Attention Controversial Dairy Funds Center of Attention Controversial Dairy Funds Center of Attention Traceability Ear Tags Distributed by Candaian Pork Council Traceability Ear Tags Distributed by Candaian Pork Council Traceability Ear Tags Distributed by Candaian Pork Council Sustainable Agriculture Video Released by NCGA 25X'25 Helping Wind Energy Spread Iowans to Get a "Taste" of State's Hunger Fighting Efforts DOE Awards $6.85 Million More For Iowa Cellulosic Ethanol Project FDA and USDA Working on New Food Safety Regulations Weigh Risks of Late-Fall Alfalfa Cutting Stalk Rots, Ear Rots Are Prevalent In Iowa Corn This Fall GAO Releases Report Covering ILUC Farm Bureau Doesn't Like Boxer-Kerry Bill H1N1 Vaccine to be Available This Week Corn Grower-leaders Support Atrazine Use 2009 World Food Prize Winner to Speak at ISU on October 12 "Meat the Need" Initiative Would Help Struggling Livestock Farmers Monsanto, Dow Agrosciences Smartstax Corn Hybrids Eligible for Crop Insurance Pilot Premium Rate Reduction Program In 2010 Weigh Those Big Yields as They Come In Farmers From 17 Nations To Gather In Des Moines Next Week What Can A Farmer Do With Hail Damaged Grain? Feds React to California Water Crisis NASS to Resurvey Some Small Grains Producers Taiwan to Purchase U.S. Soybeans NASDA Proposes Unique Support Program CWT Conducting Another Herd Retirement Program CWT Conducting Another Herd Retirement Program CWT Conducting Another Herd Retirement Program Administration Moving to Control Greenhouse Gas Emissions New Milk Labels May Decrease Overall Demand for Milk New Milk Labels May Decrease Overall Demand for Milk Iowa to Put $4 Million From State Bonding Plan Into Wetland Program Wanted: Quality Beef Producers in Iowa Wanted: Quality Beef Producers in Iowa Governor Approves Harvest Weight Limit Exemption For Grain Haulers Bill Would Lift Poultry Ban and Help Dairy Industry Bill Would Lift Poultry Ban and Help Dairy Industry Bill Would Lift Poultry Ban and Help Dairy Industry Senate is Moving Forward on Heatlh Care Reform Reaction is Mixed to Boxer-Kerry Bill Pack Silage Right for Best Results Check Alfalfa Above, Below Ground Aphanomyces Root Rot is Alfalfa Yield Killer State of Iowa Recognizes USDA's Vilsack and EPA's Jackson Farmers Remain Guardians of Ethanol Industry FAQ: Harvest Is Time To Adjust Hail-Damaged Crops For Crop Insurance Reporting Boxer-Kerry Global Warming Legislation to be Introduced in Senate Web Site Helps Fight Oxidative Stress in Dairy Cows Web Site Helps Fight Oxidative Stress in Dairy Cows Web Site Helps Fight Oxidative Stress in Dairy Cows Turning Cobs into Fuel Receives Boost ISU Economists Say Producers Are Losing $46 Per Hog Marketed Iowa to Participate in New USDA Effort Aimed to Help Fix Hypoxia Problem Farmers, Landlords Need To Work Together On Soil Conservation Farm Progress and Iron Solutions Expand Used Machinery Section Distribution 2009 Iowa Harvest Begins, Corn Grain Moisture Is High Trade Tensions Continue to Grow Between U.S. and China More Japanese Looking Forward to Eating U.S. Beef More Japanese Looking Forward to Eating U.S. Beef More Japanese Looking Forward to Eating U.S. Beef Livestock Forage Payments Being Released Pastures, Prairies & Cover Crop Field Day Is October 2 at Whiterock Variety Selection Can Help Manage SDS - What About White Mold Disease? USGC Releases Results of Chinese Corn Tour Top Leaders Hail Appropriations Agreement Group Purchases VeraSun Facility Ohio Animal Care Campaign Begins Wireless Control For Tree Shearing Bulldog 140 is New From Lincoln Westendorf Unveils Freedom Mount Loaders Valley 5000 Series Aimed at Small Field Operators What Is a Killing Frost? How Cold Does It Have to Get to Stop Corn and Soybeans? Deadline to Inform NRCS You Want to Enroll in CSP Is Sept. 30 Third Annual Iowa Hunger Summit Is October 13 in Des Moines Bill Gates, Global Ag Ministers, UN Leaders To Gather In Des Moines Survey Shows Iowa Land Values Are Down 1.9% Since March AMI Requests Meeting on Electron Beam Technology Soy Checkoff's Biotech Initiative Works to Ensure Market Access in European Union EPA Backs Off Land Use Change USDA Issues Several Grants CSIF Launches Innovative Environmental Program for Livestock Farms New Iowa Master Farm Homemakers Named by Wallaces Farmer Compact Impact Sprinkler RFA Discusses Comments for EPA on RFS NRCS Takes Lead on New Initiative for the Mississippi River Basin USDA Announces Move to Improve Health of Mississippi River Basin Climate Discussed at Summit Health Care Reform Moving Support Sought for Key Energy Amendments Iowa Beef Center Starts New Online Community With Blog Iowa Beef Center Starts New Online Community With Blog "Crop Residue Matters" Is Theme of This Fall's Soil Conservation Effort CWT Completes Eighth Herd Retirement Round CWT Completes Eighth Herd Retirement Round Michelin Offers Harvest-Time Bounty on High-Performance Ag Radial Tires Shell Announces Ladder of Protection Health Care Bill Now Moving Through Senate Finance Committee Review Underway of Outer Continental Shelf Comments Growth Energy Backs Harkin Amendment Study Shows Cost of Regulation Compliance Lucas Says Spending Must Stop Iowa State University Ag Career Day Oct. 13 At New Location Pioneer Expands Corn Drought Research Efforts What's Environmental Impact, Economic Benefits of Harvesting Stover? 2009 Research Results Available From Leopold Center for Sustainable Ag 2009 Iowa Ag Statistics Reference Booklet Is Now Available Farmers Begin 2009 Soybean Harvest In Iowa NCGA Promotes Grower Comments to EPA President Proclaims National Farm Safety and Health Week Research Looking at East Coast Food Production Farmers Market Promotion Grants Announced Decision Favoring Producers Under Review Cap-and-Trade part of 25X'25 Working Group's Focus FAQ: Apply To FSA For Biomass Crop Assistance Program Iowan Tom Dorr Named President of U.S. Grains Council Iowa Soybean Association Has New President AFBF Backs Health Insurance Tax Credit For Hillside Farming Shell Offers Energy Efficient Hydraulic Fluid Report Issued on Feeding Cattle WDGS Report Issued on Feeding Cattle WDGS Report Issued on Feeding Cattle WDGS New Leader of Organic Program Announced Senate Bill Would Ensure New Fuel Compatibility Corn Diseases Take Advantage of Weather Patterns Financial Aid Available to Farmers Hit By Severe Weather This Year Tyson Reaches Hog Agreement With State of Iowa Tyson Reaches Hog Agreement With State of Iowa Worksaver Adds New Tine Grapple Farmers With Hail Damage Can Participate In ISU Grain Quality Survey Timely Topics For Beef Producers At ISU McNay Field Day Sept. 23 Timely Topics For Beef Producers At ISU McNay Field Day Sept. 23 Timely Topics For Beef Producers At ISU McNay Field Day Sept. 23 Iowa Corn Growers Want You To Send Pro-Ethanol Comments To EPA FAQ: Sept. 30 Crop Insurance Deadline Has Incentives Alliance to Promote College Student Participation Freeways-to-Fuel Project Moving Forward Multi-State SCN Research Supports Field Scouting Health Care Reaction Strong in All Directions Experts to Speak at ISU on Climate Change, Carbon and Energy Issues Monsanto Company Announces Approach to Chemistry to help U.S. Farmers Manage Risk Bobcat Offers New M Series Western Coalition to Promote Healthy Landscapes Bayer Sees Strength in Ag, Had Strong 2008 Summary of Health Bill Released Cap-and-Trade Cost Debate Continues Administration Proposes New Fuel Mileage Standards Rural Economic Development Grants Announced Four Finalists Named in Leopold Center Director Search ISU's BioCentury Research Farm Dedication Is September 22 Be Careful Out There—Have A Safe Harvest! Pioneer Hi-Bred Announces New Inoculant Platform Interstate Shipment Rules Published ASA Requests RFS Letter Writing Campaign Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food Program Begins NFU Supporting Dairy Industry NFU Supporting Dairy Industry NFU Supporting Dairy Industry FDA Approves Vaccines for 2009 H1N1 Influenza Virus Days Are Running Out to Sign Up for New CSP Program Iowa Farmer and Farm Bureau Economist Testify on Carbon Credits FAQ: September 30 Is Final Date To Apply For NAP ISU Specialists Say 2009 Crop Year Is Mirror Image Of 2008 Dorr Named President and CEO of U.S. Grains Council BASF Gets Label for Kixor U.S. Tire Tariff May Affect U.S. Poultry Exports U.S. Tire Tariff May Affect U.S. Poultry Exports Presidents Wants New Financial Regulations Senate Committee Advances on Health Care Bill Producers Assistance Programs Available Biodiesel Has Positive Affect on Soybean Prices FAQ: USDA Announces Disaster Declaration For 22 Counties In Iowa National Farm Safety and Health Week Is September 20-26 Is Your Combine Ready for Harvest? Dow AgroSciences and Mycogen Seeds Announce Rebates Low Lin Soybean Agreement Expanded Financial, Energy or Climate Legislation Could Be Next Nutrition Programs Face Reauthorization Deadline Ag Department Releases SNAP Funds Funds Released for Forest Protection FSA Needs Advisory Committee Members Workshop to Help Farmers Apply for Value-added Producer Grants Rhino Hay Rake Deep Tillage and Residue Control: One Tool New GFX Row Cleaner Sports Independent Suspension Summers Rolling Chopper Smooths Soil Watch Temperatures Before Making Nitrogen Applications Turn Round Bales Into Cash Estimates Show Iowa's 2009 Corn Crop Likely To Set Record Nobel Laureate, Father of 'Green Revolution' Passes Nobel Laureate, Father of 'Green Revolution' Passes Iowa Barn Foundation Invites You To September 2009 All-State Barn Tour Pay Attention To Grain Quality Issues When Harvesting This Fall AGCO Extends Motor Oil Rebate Secretary Takes Reporters to Task Secretary Takes Reporters to Task Secretary Takes Reporters to Task R-CALF Wants House Passed Food Safety Bill Stopped NFU Wants Dairy Lifeline Maintained NFU Wants Dairy Lifeline Maintained NFU Wants Dairy Lifeline Maintained Lincoln Receives More Positive Reaction LIP Changes Announced LIP Changes Announced LIP Changes Announced LIP Changes Announced FAQ: Cutoff Is Sept. 30 For New Conservation Stewardship Program ISU to Hold Precision Ag Expo at Fall Field Day Check Your Soil Fertility Reserves Now USDA Sets Deadline to Apply For Grants to Assist Value-Added Ag New Food Safety Web Site Unveiled Senate Finance to Mark up Health Care Senator Lincoln is New Ag Committee Chairwoman Groups Request Denial of NBAF Funding Ag Committee Holds Hearing on Global Warming ISU Project Looks at Extending Corn-Soybean Rotation Gift From Longtime Faculty Member to Benefit ISU's Curtiss Hall Events Lead to Senate Committee Chair Changes USB Asks USDA for More Details on Proposed Mediation Ag Secretary Promotes Back-to-School Health Care Reform Discussed on Capitol Hill President to Take Health Care Stance First Domino Falls to Change Senate Ag Leadership Northwest Iowa Cattle Feedlot Cleared of Unjustified EPA Charges Answers to Questions About Selling Local Produce Direct to Consumers Chambliss Wants More Global Warming Hearings Climate Change Report Published Soft Market Has Farmers Considering Storage Versus Sales FAQ: USDA’s Farm Storage Facility Loan Program Improved New York Senator Calls for Dairy Relief New York Senator Calls for Dairy Relief Will Iowa's 2009 Corn Crop Reach A New Record? Paper Says Ag Leaders Slow Regulation Moves FSA Accepting Applications for New Biomass Crop Assistance Program USDA Announces Disaster Declaration for 22 Counties in Iowa NPPC a Little More Comfortable with Canadian Program NPPC a Little More Comfortable with Canadian Program NPPC a Little More Comfortable with Canadian Program Many Chinese Relate H1N1 to Pork Many Chinese Relate H1N1 to Pork Many Chinese Relate H1N1 to Pork Ag Committee to Hold Global Warming Hearing Produce Tattoos Developed Companies Believe Farmers Will Plant in Narrower Rows Iowa Corn Growers Set New Policies for 2009 Legislative Session USDA Action Helps Financially-Stressed Iowa Pork Producers Take Steps Now—Before Harvest—To Guard Against Stored Grain Insects ISA Urges Farmer, Consumer Activism On Behalf Of Soy-based Biodiesel ISU Plans Seminars For Struggling Hog Farmers H1N1 Detected in More Canadian Herds H1N1 Detected in More Canadian Herds H1N1 Detected in More Canadian Herds EPA Officials Make Their First Trip to Farm Country Ag Department Meets President's Goal Reminder Issued About Value-Added Program USDA Purchasing Pork USDA Purchasing Pork Farmers Urged to Apply for Funds to Repair Soil Conservation Practices New Report Documents Iowa Grain Flow Patterns and Trends Renewable Energy Funds Released Drying Grain Efficiently With Propane Hearing Held on Expanding Biofuels Role U.S. Has Opportunity to Sell Top End Beef U.S. Has Opportunity to Sell Top End Beef U.S. Has Opportunity to Sell Top End Beef Iowa Soybean Association Announces Newly-Elected Directors Iowa Pork Producers Offer 'We Care' Certification Training New Front-end Loader From Buhler NCGA Commissions Study of Cap and Trade Growth Energy Calls for Country of Origin Labeling of Fuel ISU Recommends Facing Climate Change Now Not Later Farm Groups Want Obama to Focus on Trade In the Senate Climate Change Second to Health Care Foliar Fungicides Do Not Control Sudden Death Syndrome Kinze Unveils New Planter Line at Farm Progress Show Potential Regional Shift of Senate Ag Leadership WTO Sets U.S. Sanctions in Cotton Case Biomass Crop Assistance Program Makes First Payments DOE Grant Will Train Officials in Fuels Technologies USDA Grants Go to Home Improvements Foliar Fungicide Application Will Delay Crop Maturity No Frost Yet, But Cool Weather Raises Concern About Crop Development What happens with a cash rent farm in ACRE if tenant decides to quit farming it? Survey Reported on President's Energy Policy Two New Box Spreaders in New Holland Line New Web Site has Information on Ethanol Growth Energy Begins Information Campaign Study of Hog Infection Leads to More Tests Study of Hog Infection Leads to More Tests Study of Hog Infection Leads to More Tests Green Corn Still Dominates Countryside Senate Ag Committee Sets Hearing on Biofuels SprayIT Calculator Makes Tip Selection Easy Stalks, Hay and Straw Make Fodder for the BR7090 Sukup Introduces QuadraTouch How To Identify And Manage Sudden Death Syndrome In Soybeans 50th Anniversary Of Khrushchev's Visit To Iowa Is Celebrated Iowa Corn, Soybeans Are Running Behind Schedule Sudden Death Syndrome In Soybean Fields Widespread This Summer What Happens If Farm Is Enrolled In ACRE, And Is Later Taken Out Of Production? USDA Ear Counts Important Factor in Big Yield Updated Information and Database Launched Value Added Grants Are on the Way TB Problem in Several States TB Problem in Several States TB Problem in Several States TB Problem in Several States Health Care Co-ops Debated Webcasts Will Cover Water Quality Protection Issues New Study Finds Agriculture Employs One in Six Iowans Recycle Your Empty Pesticide Containers Now Grassley Cautiously Optimistic of a Health Care Deal in Wake of August Recess Possible Change at Top of Senate Ag Committee NRCS Issues Estimated CSP Payment Ranges Funds Released to Help Improve Forests Comments Sought on Trade Adjustment Program Sept. 30 Crop Insurance Deadline Comes With Strong Incentives Late-Season Management of Corn, Soybeans and Conservation Borlaug Learning Center Grand Opening Sept. 2 At Nashua Research Farm Atrazine Levels in Water Are Questioned H1N1 Human Infection Scenario Estimates Released Dairy Advisory Committee Being Formed Dairy Advisory Committee Being Formed Dairy Advisory Committee Being Formed Animal Well-being Commission Formed Animal Well-being Commission Formed Animal Well-being Commission Formed Leopold Center Publishes Local Food Resource Directory for Iowa Vilsack Discusses Cap and Trade Report Projects Reduced Domestic Fuel Production More Learned About Colony Collapse Disorder Warning to Equine Owners Issued Warning to Equine Owners Issued Shift Continues in Electrical Generation Sources What Does Enrolling A Farm In ACRE Mean For Cash-Rent Landlords? White Mold Disease Showing Up on Plants in Some Soybean Fields Farmers Encouraged to Apply for Farm Storage Facility Loans TIME Publishes Biased View of Beef Industry TIME Publishes Biased View of Beef Industry TIME Publishes Biased View of Beef Industry Some Surprises in Latest Cattle on Feed Report Some Surprises in Latest Cattle on Feed Report Some Surprises in Latest Cattle on Feed Report Internet Tool Focuses on Natural Resources Health-Care Discussed in Phone Conference Study of Fertilizers Costs-Benefits Released Cap-and-Trade Analysis from 25x'25 Hog Production Numbers Giving Mixed Signals Hog Production Numbers Giving Mixed Signals Hog Production Numbers Giving Mixed Signals Culver Requests Ag Disaster Declaration for 8 Additional Iowa Counties Governor's Charity Steer Show Raises $123,150 for a Good Cause Risk of Mycotoxins Associated With Hail Damaged Corn Iowans Listen To Vilsack At State Fair, Urge Action For Livestock Farmers Public Meetings Scheduled to Discuss CRP Senators Encourage Insurance Process Improvements Some Movement on Health Care Legislation Possible CFTC Chairman Recommends Additions Pork Marketing Groups Want Government Help Pork Marketing Groups Want Government Help Pork Marketing Groups Want Government Help Five Farm Families Honored at Iowa State Fair Events to Mark 50th Anniversary of Khrushchev's Historic Iowa Visit FAQ: Enrolling In ACRE Affects USDA Marketing Loan Kinze Launches Planter Rebate Program Crop Insurance Deadline Comes With Strong Incentives Vilsack Brings Administration's Rural Tour to Iowa State Fair Farm Notes Sale Underway Wind Energy Has Many Potential Positives Veterinary Association Questions Pew Report New Tractor Builds on Winning Strategy 7000 Series Tractors Get New Model Powering Up for Forage Productivity Sprayer Aims for Bigger Market New Windrower Lineup Launched for 2010 Guidance Products Additions Offered Boosting Sprayer Productivity ISU Extension Ag Drainage School Is Aug. 25-27 in Southeast Iowa More Farmers Asking About Corn Nematodes Anhydrous Hookup Offers 'No Hands' Convenience Deere Launches New Tractors and Equipment On Farm Storage Loans Now Available Argentina Beef Industry in Trouble Argentina Beef Industry in Trouble Argentina Beef Industry in Trouble ARRA Dollars to Protect Natural Resources Rural Broadband Study Completed Health Care Option Being Debated Petition to Activate God Squad to Be Presented Farmers Urged to Sign Up for New Conservation Stewardship Program Egg Farmers Donate 250,000 Eggs to Food Bank of Iowa FAQ: Can The State Revenue Guarantee Move More Than 10% In 2010, If You Aren’t Enrolled In ACRE In 2009? Soy Transportation Coalition Publishes Semi Weight Analysis NPPC Asks for Industry Help NPPC Asks for Industry Help NPPC Asks for Industry Help Program Announced to Help Canadian Pork Industry Program Announced to Help Canadian Pork Industry Program Announced to Help Canadian Pork Industry Administration Changes Views of Some Health Care Issues Rural Tour Focuses on Education Corn Harvest to Set Record in Iowa This Year Can You Manage White Mold at This Stage of Soybean Development? States Most Likely to Receive ACRE Payments Ranked Four Democratic Senators Want to Push Climate Change to Next Year Ag Secretary Sends Forest Service in New Direction Comments Requested on USDA's Facility Guarantee Program Virus Enzymes Could Promote Human, Animal Health FAQ: Can I Establish Acreage Base To Make Farm Eligible? Century Farms and the Importance of Agriculture Highlighted at State Fair Be Careful Making Fungicide Decisions on Hail Damaged Crops Leave a Clean Path Kuhn Knight Has New Spreader Case IH Offers Small Square Baler Topcon Releases AES-25 for Sub-inch Accuracy Quick Change Artist from Kuhn Soybean Aphid Numbers Now Increasing With Favorable Weather Are Late-Season Soybean Aphid Treatments Worth It? Enjoy ISU Extension 4-H Exhibits At 2009 Iowa State Fair Meat Export Report Offers Mixed Numbers Clean Energy Bill Study Released FAQ: Can A Farm Enrolled In ACRE Still Receive An LDP? Storage Loan Application Period Starts Monday Iowan Elected to U.S. Grains Council Governing Board EPA's "Dead Zone" Strategy Bothers Iowa Farm Groups Program to Promote Biobased Products Draws Praise From Iowans Cob Collection Trials for Cellulosic Biomass Are Successful ACRE Sign-up By Farmers Is Increasing As Deadline Looms Pork Industry Optimistic About Korean Market Ethanol's Future May Rely on Rise in Blend Limit Australia Report Paints Optimistic Market Picture National Campaign Launched to Increase Ethanol Blender Pumps Illinois Ag Economists See 60% Shot of ACRE Payout Report Focuses on Rural Health Care Vilsack Calls on Veterinarians to Volunteer for 'United We Serve' Initiative Things To Consider When Hail Hits Corn This Time Of Year Culver Requests Ag Disaster Declaration For 23 Iowa Counties "Creating Economic Energy" Is ISU's Theme at 2009 Iowa State Fair USDA Moving Forward on Strengthened CSP Program for Farmers Hail Ravages A Large Swath Of Iowa This Past Weekend Crop Progress Continues to Show Delays USDA Launches Retooled Loan Assistance Iowa State Report Favorable to Ethanol Production APHIS Discussing Emergency H1N1 Plan APHIS Discussing Emergency H1N1 Plan APHIS Discussing Emergency H1N1 Plan President Speaks Out on Mexican Trucking Issue South Korea Lifts Ban on Pork South Korea Lifts Ban on Pork South Korea Lifts Ban on Pork Eligible Landowners Can Start Signing Up for FWP Program FAQ: What If Grain Prices Fall To CCP Levels? ACRE Signup Due This Friday DOE Supports New Energy Economy Legislation Would Make Ethanol Available at More Pumping Stations Biodiesel Tax Extension Proposed EPA Report Clouds Lifecycle Analysis Issues FDA Proposal Would Speed Up Enforcement Actions Check Roots of SCN Resistant Soybean Varieties Foundation for Ag Advancement Awards Scholarships at Iowa State Fair Iowa Corn Growers Association Announces Director Election Results FAQ: Last Minute ACRE Enrollment Decisions Iowa Headed For A Record Corn Yield This Year? Governors Support Help for Pork Producers Governors Support Help for Pork Producers Iowa Senators Look to Honor Borlaug USDA, DOJ to Hold Workshops on Competition in Ag Industry August Crop Forecast May be Harder to Make Recent Study Shows Benefits of Cellulosic E85 Hogs Hit Bottom Visit Farm Bureau Park During 2009 Iowa State Fair August 13-23 Goss's Wilt and Northern Corn Leaf Blight Showing Up in Iowa FAQ: Landlord Doesn’t Object To ACRE - So What’s The Downside of Tenant Enrolling The Farm In ACRE? Deputy Secretary Merrigan Announces First National Sign-Up For New Conservation Stewardship Program Ag Land Values Drop First-Hand Look at Climate Change Senate Ag Appropriations Bill Helps Many Ag Secretary Vilsack Discusses Global Food Security Results of Latest CWT Herd Retirement Announced Results of Latest CWT Herd Retirement Announced Results of Latest CWT Herd Retirement Announced CCC Rates Announced for August Rathbun Lake in Southern Iowa Gets New USDA Water Quality Grant Time Is Ticking Fast for Farmers to Enroll in ACRE Program Syngenta to Acquire Monsanto's Hybrid Sunflower Seeds Activities John Deere Sponsors 'National 811 Day' on 8/11 Inaugural Class elected to the Meat Industry Hall of Fame Inaugural Class elected to the Meat Industry Hall of Fame Ag Spending Bill Approved by Senate Senate Finance Committee Discusses Climate Change Legislation Budget Chair Says Farm Safety Net Not in Jeopardy Iowa State Economist on Ethanol and Corn Report Projects Reduced Domestic Fuel Production National Farmers Market Week Celebrated Across Iowa Japanese Beetles Are Expanding Their Range in Iowa New INSTINCT Nitrogen Stabilizer from Dow AgroSciences Receives Federal Label Registration Vets Issue Influenza Recommendations No Nutrient Advantage to Organic Produce USDA Announces Money Available through Rural Economic Development Grants NASS Adds ZIP Code Level to Ag Census Health Care Reform Ready for Floor Vote Proposed Biobased Product Label Rule Published Food Safety Bill Needs Work July Was Cool - 2009 Crops Are Looming Large in Iowa Bean Leaf Beetle Activity Seen in Some Iowa Soybean Fields FAQ: Crop-share Landlords Asking Questions About ACRE African Trade and Economic Forum Coming Up Peterson and Frank Complete Derivatives Legislation Outline USDA Raises Dairy Support Payments House and Senate Continue to Work on Health Care Legislation to Boost USDA Meat Recall Authority Introduced Farmland Leasing Meetings Begin This Week Across Iowa Use Treatment Thresholds