Insights and Stories on Iowa

U.S. grains: Corn, wheat drift lower on weak export demand

Mar. 19, 2019 at 6:03 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn and wheat futures closed nearly unchanged on Tuesday, with commodity funds reluctant to add to a heavy net short position despite pressure from slowing export demand for U.S. grains, analysts said. Soybean futures declined as traders awaited news from ongoing U.S. trade negotiations with […]

U.S. Midwest’s catastrophic floods cause widespread damage

Mar. 19, 2019 at 5:12 pm CDT

By Karen Dillon

SunOpta sheds U.S. Midwest organic corn, soy business

Feb. 25, 2019 at 8:42 pm CST

By GFM Staff

U.S. grains: Corn firms as rainy Midwest outlook threatens harvest

Oct. 4, 2018 at 4:50 pm CDT

By Karl Plume

Minnesota finds source of Palmer amaranth on CRP land

Apr. 6, 2017 at 6:13 pm CDT

By Renita D. Young Tom Polansek

Palmer amaranth threatening U.S. corn fields

Apr. 5, 2017 at 3:13 pm CDT

Winterset, Iowa | Reuters — A U.S. government program designed to convert farmland to wildlife habitat has triggered the spread of a fast-growing weed that threatens to strangle crops in America’s rural heartland. The weed is hard to kill and, if left unchecked, destroys as much as 91 per cent […]

By Renita D. Young Tom Polansek

Cruz’s Iowa victory could show Big Corn’s waning influence

Feb. 2, 2016 at 6:42 pm CST

New York | Reuters — U.S. Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz’s victory on Monday in corn-rich Iowa could represent a major blow to the country’s controversial biofuels program, reflecting its waning influence over politicians even in the U.S. farm heartland. Cruz, a conservative senator from Texas and outspoken opponent of […]

By Chris Prentice

Iowa declares state of emergency over avian flu

May. 1, 2015 at 4:32 pm CDT

Reuters — Iowa Governor Terry Branstad declared a state of emergency on Friday due to a rapidly expanding avian flu outbreak. State agriculture officials on Friday announced four more poultry farms — a million-bird commercial egg laying operation and three turkey farms — have initially tested positive for an H5 […]

By Reuters

Iowa reports biggest single U.S. outbreak of bird flu

Apr. 22, 2015 at 4:47 am CDT

Chicago | Reuters –– Iowa, the top U.S. egg-producing state, found a lethal strain of bird flu in millions of hens at an egg-laying facility on Monday, the worst case so far in a national outbreak that prompted Wisconsin to declare a state of emergency. The infected Iowa birds were […]

By Tom Polansek

Canada blocks poultry, eggs from N.D., Wisconsin, Iowa

Apr. 15, 2015 at 6:49 pm CDT

The list of U.S. jurisdictions from which travellers can’t bring live poultry, eggs or raw poultry products into Canada is now three states longer. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency on Tuesday announced new restrictions on such products from North Dakota, Wisconsin and Iowa, following confirmed cases of H5N2 avian flu […]

By Staff

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