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Planting on the Prairie Another Ag-First Innovation? Want a Job? Study Crop Sciences For Security of Rural Property, You're On You're Own Taking Command of the Planter Your Influence Is Real and Makes a Difference Cutting Through Extension Rumors Reliable Tech Support Starts Somewhere Even This Cynic Gets Proven Wrong Once In a While! What's Your Passion, Ladies? 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A Little Marketing Please A Star is Born Real Life in the Livestock Business A Little Telemetry Please Opt for On-Demand Hot Water Getting Ready for Spring Nothing's Simple, Particularly Renewable Fuels Engineering Awards Highlight New Tech Alfalfa Producers are "Consumers" Too A Proper Send-off Getting By in 2009 Some Real Figures to Refute Chicken Little Will 2009 Drive 2010 Retirements? Frustrations in Precision Bt Suffers Adjective Violence From Organic Fund Raisers Sneaking a Peak at Auto Show Launches Ends and Beginnings Over the River and Through the Woods Perspective and Change The Disappearing Barber Pole A Wish List? Reviving the Heat of Summers Past Towers, Towers Everywhere What Joel Osteen Needs to Learn About Scripture and Pork Wind Farms vs. Property Values Slipping into Year End Grain Sorghum Is A No-Nonsense Ethanol Feedstock Looking Ahead to 2010 A Farm Boy’s Education Remember Your "Visitors" This Christmas Season The Botched Christmas Tree Outing: Brought to Us by Harvest ‘09 End of an Era? Thanksgiving: A Place In The Heart A Big Change is Coming A Time of Thanksgiving The Idling Drummer Precision Ag Reaching Critical Mass? From the Ground to The Sky On Biofuels See it on TV And You Think You’ve Got It Bad Best Laid Plans Ignorance Can Be Expensive Thinking Beyond the Current Year Beetles: A Bad Horror Movie Bad Boy LSV Shoots for Tax Credit and Outdoor Use Biomass is Challenge and Opportunity Winterization Can Prevent Cursing In the Spring Machinery Sales Slip in September Stewardship of the Past Involves Grasses Pre-Harvest Stress Rush is on...Keep Safety in Mind Short Winter? Next Time You're In the Shop, Look Up My Engine! Ford Retools Super Duty Truck Line Bring Back the 'Little' Combine? Defying definition: the Sustainable Family Farm Industry in Transition? A Tale of Two Dealers Whew! One Show Down...Another This Week Keeping Perspective on Market Changes Be Frugal With Your Tax Dollars The Return of the Scout Recycled Motor Oil Can Be Just as Good as New! Company Fills California Equipment Niche A Hundred Years Luck Is Watching Nature In the Country Machinery Launches Offer Fun, Information Teaching Old Designs New Tricks As the Crow Flies Farmer Spending Ramping Up Counting Down the Days A Blatant Waste of Your Resources and Mine The (Sweet Corn) Ears Have It What a Difference 30 Years Can Make Living In the Country Affords Some Quiet Time Development Beat Marches On Form and Function A subsidy is a subsidy is a subsidy! Aussie Travel Tour Continues This Has Nothing to Do with Farming Applying Tech Everywhere Unintended Consequences are Consequences Just the Same YouTube Therapy Rumor Mill Fires Up The March to Cleaner Engines Continues Show Me a Master Farmer Crazy Animal Rights Tactics Lining Up with New Products Individual Grit and Determination Still Work, Despite Being Out of Style It's All in the Details What Frog Shortage? New Way to Get Equipment Information Company Offers Interesting Move for 2010 Not Like Your Father's Farm Equipment Dealership $400 a Ton Anhydrous? Living Among My Ancestors Catching a Sniff of Show Season Day Two ASABE Quarter Scale Tractor Competition (With Video) There's More Than One Way to Use a Briggs & Stratton Engine! Steering Update: More Work Done as Weather Clears Oil Coolers are Cheap Insurance Against Frustration and Expensive Repairs Doggone It Deals Abound, Market Wants your Business Update - Indiana Lightbar User Gets More Experience Tractors Need Spring Cleaning Too Be Safe in the Rush to Plant Farm Equipment Sales Slide Caution: You May Own "Waters of the U.S." It's that second you'd like to have to live over again Move on Auto Industry to Impact Ag? A Tax By Any Other Name Is Still a Tax Field Update - Putting New Tech to Work Rush Limbaugh Becomes Spokesman for HSUS It Was a Great Day for a Wildfire! If You Don't Tell Your Story, No One Will Activists Looking at Fungicide? Changing of the Guard Big Green Makes Reorganization News The Proof is in the Rust on the Plow Online Parts Ordering in Your Future? A "Busted" 4-H Story and The Technology Explosion Adversity Could Bring Opportunity A Penny For Your Thoughts? Not Nuts about Preconceived Notions Learning the Lightbar "It's Only a Little Leak," said the Captain of the Titanic Nurse Practitioners: A Modern Solution to a Nagging Problem Alliances Open Doors to Interesting Ideas Dan's Inflation Market Basket Take That, Animal Rights Activists Making a Combine Statement Are You a Rich Farmer? The Rush of Spring...is Coming Abandoned Horse Web Site Draws Attention to Lack of Slaughter Some Good News to Season the Bad Not Better Than Tractors Farmer Panel Offers Insight Fertilizer Report #1 Ready to Introduce New Master Farmers You CAN use less energy Midwest Power Shift Pioneer Seeks a Mighty Wind Utility Vehicle Makes a Stretch Stretching Out to Cover More Acres Horses: The last untapped source of protein on the North American continent Flexible, Maneuverable and BIG! Return of an Icon? Agriculture: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon Thank You Mr. Lincoln The changing of the seasons can be violent Farm Show Ahead...Excitement to Follow The Law of Gravity Has NOT Been Repealed Passages THIS is America! A Truly Inconvenient Truth Out of the Mouths of Babes Different Subject/Same Argument Keeping in Touch - Getting Easier After the Flood An RX for Tough Times How Quickly Fortunes Change Caring for a Key Asset Bumpy Ride Ahead? A Dose of Reality Needs to Set In The Birds Know Starting Out Fresh? Time to Take a Deep Breath Not Ready for their Close-up Last Chance for Tax Savings Find Used Equipment Fast Company Move Aimed at Matching Machines to Markets Christmas Tunes Future Electronics Get Push From Dust to Dust Maximizing that Capacity Machinery Sales Demand to Continue? Prop 2 Swings the Door Open Big-Rig Pickup? Really? Only Half Done With Corn? 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 Afternoon Recap by Arlan Suderman Morning Call by Bryce Knorr Livestock Call By John Otte Proposed Child Labor Law Addressed at Cattlemen's Convention Proposed Child Labor Law Addressed at Cattlemen's Convention Proposed Child Labor Law Addressed at Cattlemen's Convention Herbicide Resistance Meetings Planned Crop Residue Buildup Is Challenging Crop Insurance Deadline March 15 Cattlemen's Beef Board Approves Changes to Bylaws Cattlemen's Beef Board Approves Changes to Bylaws Cattlemen's Beef Board Approves Changes to Bylaws BASF Presents Research On New Herbicide Mahindra Max Series Is A Mid-Compact Tractor; Real Tractor Design UC Davis Researchers Partner in Beef E. coli Research Project UC Davis Researchers Partner in Beef E. coli Research Project NBB Working for Tax Credit Renewal, Higher RFS NBB Working for Tax Credit Renewal, Higher RFS Senators Are Pressing for Approval of XL Pipeline Senators Are Pressing for Approval of XL Pipeline MF Global Bankruptcy Drives New Protections MF Global Bankruptcy Drives New Protections Cattlemen's Beef Board Preparing for Changes Cattlemen's Beef Board Preparing for Changes Cattlemen's Beef Board Preparing for Changes Farmer's Legal & Regulatory Guide Available Conservation Leaders Honored by NACD Conservation Leaders Honored by NACD DOL to Revisit Farm Labor Rule DOL to Revisit Farm Labor Rule DOL to Revisit Farm Labor Rule Case IH Launches Field Of Deals Sweepstakes Most MF Global Funds Found Most MF Global Funds Found Better Beef Sales: Beef Up Knowledge at the Meat Case Better Beef Sales: Beef Up Knowledge at the Meat Case Rural Refinance Pilot Program Announced Rural Refinance Pilot Program Announced Wheat Organizations Want an Open Border for U.S. and Canadian Farmers Wheat Organizations Want an Open Border for U.S. and Canadian Farmers FSA Has New Adjusted Gross Income Policy Two Winners Named For Spencer Award Cyclone Nation Boosts 'Special Delivery' Project New Crop Weather Insurance Policy Offered Soybean Technology Can Help Feed Hungry World Stine Honors Late Iowa Farmer Dry Manure Applicators Need To Be Certified Branson Puts Cabs On The 20C Series Ag Tractor Nations Losing Confidence in Doha Trade Talks Nations Losing Confidence in Doha Trade Talks Biodiesel Production Expanding Biodiesel Production Expanding NFU Supports COOL Requirements NFU Supports COOL Requirements NFU Supports COOL Requirements Cattle Health: Manage Winter Cold Stress Ag Groups Meeting to Iron Out Differing Views Ag Groups Meeting to Iron Out Differing Views Bill Introduced to Approve Portion of XL Pipeline Bill Introduced to Approve Portion of XL Pipeline Agriculture Bank Portfolios Strong Agriculture Bank Portfolios Strong Branstad Objects To Electrical Inspection For Farmers Yanmar Meets Tier 4 Emissions Standards For Off-Road Students to Attend USDA Outlook Forum Students to Attend USDA Outlook Forum New Long Term Agricultural Projections to be Released New Long Term Agricultural Projections to be Released Study Says Consumers Favor National Egg Legislation Study Says Consumers Favor National Egg Legislation Study Says Consumers Favor National Egg Legislation World Economic Forum Held World Economic Forum Held Cattlemen's College Will Present Wide Range of Topics Cattlemen's College Will Present Wide Range of Topics MF Global Official to Testify Before Congress MF Global Official to Testify Before Congress Will Gas Tax Bill Go Anywhere In Iowa Legislature? Deere Takes Twin-Row Planters to the South USTR Reports Progress in Trade Talks USTR Reports Progress in Trade Talks Trade Enforcement Unit Proposal Met With Opposition Trade Enforcement Unit Proposal Met With Opposition Trade Enforcement Unit Proposal Met With Opposition Add The Right Adjuvant To Spray Mix This Spring Your Input Wanted on Farm Office Closures ASA Biotech Working Group to Meet in D.C. Jan. 30-31 ASA Biotech Working Group to Meet in D.C. Jan. 30-31 Iowa Power Farming Show Coming Up SCN Soybean Variety Trials Reach Milestone Heifer Development Is Focus Of ICA Meetings John Deere, MacDon Agree on Self-Propelled Windrower Production, Sales Iowa Soil & Land Use Website Gets A Make-Over ISU Spring Ag Career Day Set For Feb. 1 How to Help Pollinators How to Help Pollinators ASA Helps Launch New Afghan Association for Food and Feed ASA Helps Launch New Afghan Association for Food and Feed U.S. Forest Service Releases Final Environmental Impact Statement U.S. Forest Service Releases Final Environmental Impact Statement NAWG, U.S. Wheat Visit Capitol Hill NAWG, U.S. Wheat Visit Capitol Hill Dynasty Trusts: Another View New Kids On The Block In Sprayer Market How Do Farmers Use The Internet? Herbicide Resistant Weeds At Power Show Agronomic Leaders Set Record Straight on Agriculture Education and Career Opportunities Agronomic Leaders Set Record Straight on Agriculture Education and Career Opportunities Agronomic Leaders Set Record Straight on Agriculture Education and Career Opportunities Lock or Dam Failures Studied Lock or Dam Failures Studied Senator Questions President's Energy Stance Senator Questions President's Energy Stance Improvements to School Meals Announced Improvements to School Meals Announced New Plant Hardiness Zone Map Unveiled New Plant Hardiness Zone Map Unveiled Herbicide-Resistant Weed Management Summit Scheduled Herbicide-Resistant Weed Management Summit Scheduled Farm Groups Respond Positively to State of the Union Farm Groups Respond Positively to State of the Union Turn Waterhemp Into An Opportunity Iowa Ag Groups Meet With Legislators Great Exportations! Great Exportations! Great Exportations! CARB Motion for Case Reversal Denied CARB Motion for Case Reversal Denied New Electric Tarp Roll from Shur-Co USDA Awards E. coli Research Grant USDA Awards E. coli Research Grant Agriculture Hopes to Hear Support for Safety Net Agriculture Hopes to Hear Support for Safety Net Senator Reports Questionable Contact to Ethics Committee Senator Reports Questionable Contact to Ethics Committee New Advanced Biofuel Facility For Iowa Dow AgroSciences Sued by Bayer NPPC, NCBA Says New Legislation Backed by UEP, HSUS Dangerous Livestock Assistance Deadline Approaching USDA Launches New Energy Website USDA Launches New Energy Website MF Global Claims Due Jan. 31 MF Global Claims Due Jan. 31 State Agriculture Directors Meet with EPA State Agriculture Directors Meet with EPA Grants Available To Enhance Swine Industry Sign-Up Begins for DCP and ACRE Sign-Up Begins for DCP and ACRE USDA Announces Renewable Energy and Efficiency Grants USDA Announces Renewable Energy and Efficiency Grants USDA Changing Poultry Inspections If You Haven't Heard About Cover Crops, You Will Soon! Pesticide Applicators Must Be Certified Need To Heed USDA HEL & Wetland Rules USDA Says More Cattle on Feed Than Last Year USDA Says More Cattle on Feed Than Last Year USDA Says More Cattle on Feed Than Last Year More Farmers Want To Expand In Hogs New Iowa Guide To Field Crop Insects Land Pride's New Grooming Mower Aimed At Commercial Use Nelson Irrigation Features Low-Pressure Pop-Up Sprinkler 'Top Ten' Ag Law & Tax Issues Evaluating Your Estate Plan NACD Reacts to EPA Reporting Proposal NACD Reacts to EPA Reporting Proposal NACD Reacts to EPA Reporting Proposal Federal Agency Consolidations Pose Concerns for USGC Federal Agency Consolidations Pose Concerns for USGC Progress for Pollinators Progress for Pollinators Acid Rain Study Shows Substantial Decreases Acid Rain Study Shows Substantial Decreases National FFA Organization Seeks Student Travelers National FFA Organization Seeks Student Travelers Update On Big Power Line Proposed For Iowa Keystone XL Pipeline Rejected Keystone XL Pipeline Rejected USDA Providing Additional Disaster Assistance USDA Providing Additional Disaster Assistance Buffett Foundation, Borlaug Institute Advance African Agriculture Buffett Foundation, Borlaug Institute Advance African Agriculture Deadline Extended for Conservation Stewardship Program Deadline Extended for Conservation Stewardship Program Livestock Analyst Previews USDA Cattle Inventory Report Livestock Analyst Previews USDA Cattle Inventory Report Livestock Analyst Previews USDA Cattle Inventory Report FMC Announces Cadet Convoy Winners Iowa Beef Council Elects New Officers Iowa Fruit & Veggie Growers To Gather Pigskin Poetry Contest Announced Iowa Sustainable Ag Award Goes To Kirschenmann LightSquared, Farm GPS Saga Continues LightSquared, Farm GPS Saga Continues USDA Rural Development 2011 Progress Report Released USDA Rural Development 2011 Progress Report Released CSP & Wetland Sign-Up Deadlines Extended Iowa Pork Congress Set For Jan. 25-26 Possibility of Merging USTR with Other Agencies Possibility of Merging USTR with Other Agencies Big Apple a Big Potential Market for Soy Bioheat and Biodiesel Big Apple a Big Potential Market for Soy Bioheat and Biodiesel Despite Budget Cuts USDA Committed to Expanding Broadband Despite Budget Cuts USDA Committed to Expanding Broadband LED Lights Extend Meat Shelf Life LED Lights Extend Meat Shelf Life Learn Market Magic At 2012 Workshop Important To Participate In USDA Survey Soybean Technology Can Help Feed Hungry World Yetter Manages Residue On The Twin Row Corn Part Of 'State of the State' Address Corn Belt Cow-Calf Conference Jan. 21 Thermal Arc Unveils Fabricator 252i For MIG, Stick, Tig welding USMEF Reports on Meat Exports USMEF Reports on Meat Exports Ag Secretary Holds Business Roundtable Ag Secretary Holds Business Roundtable Study Provides New Insights into Antibiotics and Pig Feeds USDA's Announcement to Close Offices Concerns NCBA USDA's Announcement to Close Offices Concerns NCBA USDA's Announcement to Close Offices Concerns NCBA Deadline for USDA CIG Grants Approaching Sukup Designs Answer For Keeping Elevator Legs Straight Iowa Is Top Corn & Soybean Producer Iowa FSA Seeks Public Input On Office Closings EPA Eyes Improving Science Underlying Regulations EPA Eyes Improving Science Underlying Regulations USDA Works With Aviation Officials to Promote Biofuels Use USDA Works With Aviation Officials to Promote Biofuels Use Transforming the U.S. Grains Council Begins in Panama Transforming the U.S. Grains Council Begins in Panama Fuel Up to Play 60, Let's Move! Takes Aim at Childhood Obesity Will Sagging Grain Prices Make Those Who Paid High Cash Rent Uneasy? Corn Fungicides Evaluated In 2011 Message From ISU Dean Wendy Wintersteen Women Are Changing The Landscape Foliar Fungicides, Insecticides Evaluated Iowa Ag Department Has New Deputy Crop Costs To Rise, Prices To Decline Scientists Say Red Meat Vital for a Healthy Diet Scientists Say Red Meat Vital for a Healthy Diet NASS Summarizes 2011 Crop Year NASS Summarizes 2011 Crop Year New Organization to Link Veterans with Ag Careers New Organization to Link Veterans with Ag Careers Standard Operating Procedure for the Farm Bill Standard Operating Procedure for the Farm Bill Oil Prices to Reach All-Time High Oil Prices to Reach All-Time High Estate Tax Battle is Set to Resume Estate Tax Battle is Set to Resume Foreign Oil Funding America's Enemies Farm Bureau Delegates Issue Latest Marching Orders Farm Bureau Delegates Issue Latest Marching Orders Vilsack Highlights Commitment to Renewable Energy Vilsack Highlights Commitment to Renewable Energy Lawsuit Against EPA Could Impact Agriculture Lawsuit Against EPA Could Impact Agriculture 11th Annual Heart of America Grazing Conference Begins Jan. 25 11th Annual Heart of America Grazing Conference Begins Jan. 25 Iowa Weather Summary For 2011 The Farmer: Steward Of The Land, or Shrewd Businessman? January Notes From Leopold Center Dry Manure Applicator Certification Farmland Drainage Workshop Jan. 30 Mahindra Introduces Snow Blower And Blade Conservation Tillage Conference Coming Up Cattlemen Ride Herd On Farm Bill Groups Wants EPA Dioxin Assessment Stopped Groups Wants EPA Dioxin Assessment Stopped Mike Miller Named to NCBA Position Mike Miller Named to NCBA Position GAO Releases Recommendations for EPA IRIS GAO Releases Recommendations for EPA IRIS Protecting Your Estate Protecting Your Estate Protecting Your Estate New Head Of Leopold Center At ISU Ag Secretary Outlines Cuts Ag Secretary Outlines Cuts Key NASS Survey Period Begins Soon Key NASS Survey Period Begins Soon Key NASS Survey Period Begins Soon CSP Sign-Up Extended Until Jan. 27 Unique Chemistry In Armezon Herbicide Is Tough On Weeds, Safe On Corn Iowa Caucuses Bring Good Opportunities for Farmers to Communicate Iowa Caucuses Bring Good Opportunities for Farmers to Communicate Property Tax On Agenda Of 2012 Iowa Legislature Court Decides In Favor Of Makhteshim Agan Deadline for USDA Conservation Innovation Grants is Jan. 31 Deadline for USDA Conservation Innovation Grants is Jan. 31 Managing Risk Has Never Been More Important Managing Risk Has Never Been More Important Scrutiny in Wake of MF Global Could Breakup CME Scrutiny in Wake of MF Global Could Breakup CME AFBF's Stallman Says U.S. Ag Underappreciated by the Public AFBF's Stallman Says U.S. Ag Underappreciated by the Public Renewable Energy Sources See Growth Renewable Energy Sources See Growth This Will Not Be the Usual Farm Bill Debate This Will Not Be the Usual Farm Bill Debate MF Global Plot Thickens MF Global Plot Thickens Effort Aims to Collect Farmers' Stories Effort Aims to Collect Farmers' Stories Protecting Your Farm Estate Protecting Your Farm Estate Protecting Your Farm Estate Hay Market Clues Coming January 12 FSA Needs Production Evidence Premier Sustainable Ag Event In Iowa FDA Milk Residue Survey Underway Company Offers Rural School District Grants Run Numbers, Seek Plenty Of Results Before Changing Practices Portable Lithium Ion Battery Packs Offered For 12 VDC Lighting Farm Bureau President Recaps Challenges Ahead Farm Bureau President Recaps Challenges Ahead Ethanol Is Winner In Iowa Caucus Gas Tax Hike Proposed To Fund Road Repairs Reminder About HEL & Wetland Rules Iowa Ethanol Production Ticked Up In 2011 FDA Moves to Reduce Use of Drugs FDA Moves to Reduce Use of Drugs FDA Moves to Reduce Use of Drugs New Committee Will Advise Land Management Planning New Committee Will Advise Land Management Planning Interviewing A Potential Employee EPA Focuses on Renewable Fuels Standards EPA Focuses on Renewable Fuels Standards New Year is Time for Dairy Producers to Find Farm Energy Opportunities Crop Rotation vs. Crop Price Iowa Biodiesel Production Sets Record Farmers Rein In Bullish Hopes For 2012 Farmers Rein In Bullish Hopes For 2012 USDA Agency Reminds Farmers and Landowners of Compliance Issues USDA Agency Reminds Farmers and Landowners of Compliance Issues NCBA Prepares Next Steps in Fight for Agriculture in D.C. NCBA Prepares Next Steps in Fight for Agriculture in D.C. NCBA Prepares Next Steps in Fight for Agriculture in D.C. Food Prices Moderate in Fourth Quarter Food Prices Moderate in Fourth Quarter Course Helps Women Manage Farms Iowa FSA Receives National Award Senninger Introduces New UP3 Dual Nozzle Carrier New Iowa 4-H Scholarship Established Farm Bill This Year Could Depend on Time Farm Bill This Year Could Depend on Time Hobart Champion Elite Welder Is Light, Quiet, Powerful Rural Development Has Big Iowa Impact Controversy Brewing over Poultry Cage Size Celelulosic Ethanol Industry Will Expand with Strong Policy Celelulosic Ethanol Industry Will Expand with Strong Policy CoBank Closes Merger With U.S. AgBank CoBank Closes Merger With U.S. AgBank RFA Lists Top Five Ethanol Industry Stories for 2011 and 2012 RFA Lists Top Five Ethanol Industry Stories for 2011 and 2012 New OpTill PRO Herbicide Gives Growers A More Complete Foundation February Most Important Risk Management Month February Most Important Risk Management Month Beef Bucks on the Wheel of Fortune Beef Bucks on the Wheel of Fortune Beef Bucks on the Wheel of Fortune Farm Bureau Will Consider Catastrophic Revenue Loss Program FDA Plans To Release New Food Safety Rules Jan. 4 Farm Bureau Will Consider Catastrophic Revenue Loss Program Feedlot Forum 2012 Features Old and New Apply For Conservation Stewardship Program Choose The Right Precision Ag Options For Your Farm EQIP Deadlines Announced For 2012 U.S. Military Take a Trip to the Market U.S. Military Take a Trip to the Market California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard Unconstitutional California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard Unconstitutional Domino's Stuffed Cheesy Bread Satisfies Consumer Demand EQIP Deadlines Announced For 2012 Weathering Economic Booms & Busts Northey Unveils Ag Budget Request Rootworm Resistance To Bt Corn Confirmed Renewable Fuels Caucus Voter Guide Beekeeping Schools Offered In 2012 Grains Council Remains Focused On Moving Trade Even Further Grains Council Remains Focused On Moving Trade Even Further Testing For Nematodes That Feed On Corn Tune-In To Farm Economics Webinars Get Set For 2012 Iowa Pork Congress Practical Farmers Offer Winter Farminars Iowa Corn Growers 2012 Crop Fair Schedule Angus Records Program to be Introduced Crop Insurance Changes For 2012 Manage Crop Risk In Volatile Times NBB 2013 Biodiesel Goals Announced NBB 2013 Biodiesel Goals Announced Signup Time Limited for First Conservation Stewardship Program Signup Time Limited for First Conservation Stewardship Program Consortium Will Develop Grass-Fed Dairy Farms Suddenly, Farmland Is Fashionable Farming Practices Threaten Widely Grown Corn Crop Farming Practices Threaten Widely Grown Corn Crop First Biotech-based Drought Tolerant Corn Cleared First Biotech-based Drought Tolerant Corn Cleared Browsing Billy Goats Improve Wildlife Habitat Test Plot Results For 2011 Released By Dordt USDA My Plate Video Winners Announced USDA My Plate Video Winners Announced 'Culinologists' Discover What Really Makes Bacon Sizzle EPA Issues Renewable Fuel Standards for 2012 EPA Issues Renewable Fuel Standards for 2012 Looking at Life Without an Ethanol Subsidy Looking at Life Without an Ethanol Subsidy Tainted Milk in China Caused by Bad Feed Farm-Impacting Lawsuits Could be Settled in 2012 Farm-Impacting Lawsuits Could be Settled in 2012 Busted: Pork Myths Phone App Is Winter Preparedness Tool for Motorists Iowa Farm & Rural Life Poll 2011 Results MF Global Action Creates Stir MF Global Action Creates Stir Central Iowa Expo Announces Major Gift Researchers Put Farm Fish on Vegetarian Diet Researchers Put Farm Fish on Vegetarian Diet Pork Steals the Show at Cooking Schools More Tiny, but Harmful Frogs Showing up in Hawaii More Tiny, but Harmful Frogs Showing up in Hawaii Dairy Checkoff Board Amended Aerial Application Scholarships Awarded Iowa Revising Nutrient Management Standards Dairy Checkoff Unifies Industry 2012 Cornbelt Cow-Calf Conference Focuses on Efficiency IDALS Marks 25 Years Of Serving Iowans Don't Be Surprised If USDA Drops Final Yield Numbers With Prices Up, More Farmers May Plant Peanuts With Prices Up, More Farmers May Plant Peanuts Be BOLD - And Healthy - With Beef Be BOLD - And Healthy - With Beef MBW Hitch Gives Pull-Type Farm Implements 'Steering' Keepseagle Settlement Claims Filing Period Closes Dec. 27 Keepseagle Settlement Claims Filing Period Closes Dec. 27 FFA Programs Receive a Boost FFA Programs Receive a Boost P & K Content Of Cornstalks Changes Over Time ISU Online Store Now Offers E-Books & Digital Downloads Conservation Buffer Deadline Approaching USDA Releases Quarterly Hogs and Pigs Report USDA Releases Quarterly Hogs and Pigs Report Composting Helps Swine Farm Improve Biosecurity Saudi Dairy Giant Spends $83 Million on Argentina Farms John Deere Unveils the Welderator 3-in-One Tool USDA Reports on Land Use USDA Reports on Land Use Ethanol and Biodiesel Production at Record Levels Ethanol and Biodiesel Production at Record Levels Tracking Beef’s Shrinking Footprint Tracking Beef’s Shrinking Footprint Iowa Renewable Fuels Elects New Officers Who Gets Payment For Corn Stover? New Web Tool Designed to Help Americans Make Healthy Choices New Web Tool Designed to Help Americans Make Healthy Choices Federal Agencies Have Taken Steps to Modernize Food Safety Federal Agencies Have Taken Steps to Modernize Food Safety Federal Agencies Have Taken Steps to Modernize Food Safety H-2A Wage Rate Published H-2A Wage Rate Published H-2A Wage Rate Published Farm Bureau President Speaks Out on Child Labor Regulations Farm Bureau President Speaks Out on Child Labor Regulations Tax Packages Waiting for Next Year Tax Packages Waiting for Next Year Soybean Sudden Death Syndrome Expands Iowa Beef Industry Recognizes Supporters USDA, HHS Highlight Food Safety in Report USDA, HHS Highlight Food Safety in Report Midwest Producers Gather to Learn About Using Cover Crops Midwest Producers Gather to Learn About Using Cover Crops NCGA Announces 2011 National Corn Yield Contest Winners NCGA Announces 2011 National Corn Yield Contest Winners Efforts Continue to Stop DOL Farm Labor Regulations Efforts Continue to Stop DOL Farm Labor Regulations Efforts Continue to Stop DOL Farm Labor Regulations More Young People See Opportunity In Farming More Young People See Opportunity In Farming Renewable Fuels Announces Video Contest Santorum Attends Iowa Corn Board Meeting BASF to Distribute Sovran Fungicide Through Cheminova Winter Farmers Markets Expand Winter Farmers Markets Expand Kinze and Tonutti Wolagri Reach Disribution Agreement LightSquared Makes a Legal Move LightSquared Makes a Legal Move Ag Secretary Looks Back at 2011 Ag Secretary Looks Back at 2011 Ag Secretary Looks Back at 2011 New Zemax Herbicide Receives EPA Registration for 2012 Season Senate Passes Federal Funding Bill Senate Passes Federal Funding Bill Senate Passes Federal Funding Bill Iowa Corn Future Of Ag Scholarships Available Manage Crop Risks In Volatile Times CME Recommits to Chicago After Receiving Tax Relief CME Recommits to Chicago After Receiving Tax Relief NPPC Provides Input Into MF Global Inquiry NPPC Provides Input Into MF Global Inquiry Brazil to Change Amazon Deforestation Law Brazil to Change Amazon Deforestation Law HSUS Targeted By Pro-Shelter Campaign HSUS Targeted By Pro-Shelter Campaign Combining Efforts Adds Value to Two Company's Products Team Investigates FTA Implementation Team Investigates FTA Implementation U.S. Commodity Organizations Working to Make Sales to Asia U.S. Commodity Organizations Working to Make Sales to Asia U.S. Commodity Organizations Working to Make Sales to Asia Michael Scuse Testifies During Confirmation Hearing Michael Scuse Testifies During Confirmation Hearing Effort Launched to Get Proposed Labor Department Rule Dropped Effort Launched to Get Proposed Labor Department Rule Dropped 2011 Season Becomes Bookend For Comparison Purposes Iowa Ag Department Has New Soil Chief Iowa Corn Cy-Hawk Truck Winner Announced Texas Drought Takes Cow Numbers Down Sign-up For 2012 USDA DCP, ACRE Program CSP Applications Due By January 13 Iowa Farmers Question Candidate Rick Perry First-In-Nation Caucuses Bring Scrutiny Feedlot Placements of Cattle Remain High Feedlot Placements of Cattle Remain High Feedlot Placements of Cattle Remain High Monsanto's Vistive Gold Soybeans Trait Receives USDA Deregulation Farm Credit Continues to Support Agriculture Bayer CropScience and Performance Plants Sign License Agreement Experts: Corzine Avoided Missteps in his Testimony Experts: Corzine Avoided Missteps in his Testimony Will Producing Biomass Damage Soil? Renewable Fuels Association Forms Partnership NPPC Responded to Traceability Comment Period Krone Powers Up Hay Harvest with New MAN Engines USDA Unveils New Food Safety Plan USDA Unveils New Food Safety Plan Senators Ask for Appeal of WTO COOL Decision Senators Ask for Appeal of WTO COOL Decision Senators Ask for Appeal of WTO COOL Decision Crop Insurance APH Can Be Adjusted Extension of Cellulosic Tax Credit and Allowance Sought Extension of Cellulosic Tax Credit and Allowance Sought Legislation Passed that Ends CWB Marketing Monopoly Legislation Passed that Ends CWB Marketing Monopoly Farm Worries Continue Over LightSquared Farm Worries Continue Over LightSquared Biodiesel Industry Appeals for Continued Tax Credit Biodiesel Industry Appeals for Continued Tax Credit Iowa Farmland Values Jump 32.5% In 2011 House Passes XL Pipeline Proposal House Passes XL Pipeline Proposal Missouri River Farmers Face Continued Hurdles 2011 Award Winners Named By Iowa Farm Bureau TPP Agreement Moves Forward TPP Agreement Moves Forward USDA Releases Energy Efficiency Dollars USDA Releases Energy Efficiency Dollars New Farm Machinery Drive Belts from ContiTech Major Gains In Efficiency Of Livestock Systems Needed Major Gains In Efficiency Of Livestock Systems Needed Major Gains In Efficiency Of Livestock Systems Needed NASS Reinstates Several Key Reports NASS Reinstates Several Key Reports USDA Releases Nutrient Management Revision USDA Releases Nutrient Management Revision USDA Releases Nutrient Management Revision CME Group Exec Challenges Corzine CME Group Exec Challenges Corzine Farm Crop Insurance Rates Skyrocket After Summer Floods Farm Crop Insurance Rates Skyrocket After Summer Floods Grains Council Works To Build Chinese Market for U.S. Corn Grains Council Works To Build Chinese Market for U.S. Corn Good Time Or Bad Time To Start Farming? Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 Marks First Year Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 Marks First Year Ag Helps Move Our Economy Forward Register Now For PFI 2012 Annual Meeting Beginning Farmer Conference Set For Ames Iowa Renewable Fuels Summit & Trade Show Tractor Enthusiasts To Gather In Quad Cities What Are the Next Steps for Farm Bill? What Are the Next Steps for Farm Bill? State Gas Tax Increase May Be Considered Corzine Testifies Never Authorized Fund 'Misuse' Corzine Testifies Never Authorized Fund 'Misuse' Presidential Candidate Holds Agriculture Conference Call Presidential Candidate Holds Agriculture Conference Call Labor Department's Desire to Move Quickly Concerns Ag Professor Labor Department's Desire to Move Quickly Concerns Ag Professor Iowa Farm Bureau Elects New President 'Grain Bin' Homes Being Sent To Haiti Nebraska Governor Criticizes HSUS Nebraska Governor Criticizes HSUS Nebraska Governor Criticizes HSUS USMEF Reports Record Pork and Beef Exports USMEF Reports Record Pork and Beef Exports USMEF Reports Record Pork and Beef Exports U.S. Farmers Have One of Their Best Years U.S. Farmers Have One of Their Best Years Crop Insurance APH Adjusted for Lag Crop Insurance APH Adjusted for Lag Commercial Manure Applicator Training Scheduled Confinement Site Manure Applicator Workshops Generation 2 Schaffert Fertilizer Disc Sports New Engineering Illinois General Assembly Special Session Could Determine if CME Stays or Goes Illinois General Assembly Special Session Could Determine if CME Stays or Goes Ability Of Insects, Disease And Weeds To Mutate, Change Fact of life Farm Repair Funds for Forest Lands Available Nebraska Lawmakers Question $100k Grant to Farm Group Nebraska Lawmakers Question $100k Grant to Farm Group Nebraska Lawmakers Question $100k Grant to Farm Group E85 Ethanol Sales Up 20% Over A Year Ago Explore 'Patch-Burn' Grazing On Webinar Iowa Wind Energy Converter Station Site Selected Can You Believe $20,000 Per Acre? Ag Leader Announces Planter Down Force Monitor and Control Corzine Accepts Responsibility for European Investments Corzine Accepts Responsibility for European Investments Weed ID Guide Available Electronically 2012 Farm Program Sign Up Begins In January Hot Topic: Iowa Land Value Survey Meat Industry Criticizes USDA's GIPSA Rule Meat Industry Criticizes USDA's GIPSA Rule Meat Industry Criticizes USDA's GIPSA Rule Hypro Offers Express Wet Boom Fittings for Chemical Sprayers Dust Bill Passes House, Headed to Senate Dust Bill Passes House, Headed to Senate Dust Bill Passes House, Headed to Senate Funding for Rural Education and Health Care Announced Funding for Rural Education and Health Care Announced House Holds Hearing on MF Global Bankruptcy House Holds Hearing on MF Global Bankruptcy AFBF Supports Dust Bill AFBF Supports Dust Bill AFBF Supports Dust Bill USDA Invests in Micronutrient-Fortified Food Aid in Six Countries USDA Invests in Micronutrient-Fortified Food Aid in Six Countries Stripped Down Antitrust Rule Published by USDA Stripped Down Antitrust Rule Published by USDA Groups Request Hearing on RFS Groups Request Hearing on RFS Groups Request Hearing on RFS AHA Expands Programs to Benefit Farm Animals & Rural Communities Farmers Grill Gingrich On Ag Issues Rabobank Releases Ag Commodity Outlook for 2012 Rabobank Releases Ag Commodity Outlook for 2012 Company Offers Program for Farmers Who Go 'All In' Farm Credit Supports 25x'25 Alliance with Renewable Energy Grant First Carbon Sequestration Report Issued First Carbon Sequestration Report Issued Resources To Aid 2011 Flood Recovery MarketMaker Has Handy Tools You Can Use CFTC Head Recuses Self from MF Global Situation CFTC Head Recuses Self from MF Global Situation New Tactics Announced to Enhance SNAP Program Integrity New Tactics Announced to Enhance SNAP Program Integrity McCrometer Strengthens McPropeller Flow Meters Bills Would Help Restore Regulatory Balance Bills Would Help Restore Regulatory Balance Senate Panel to Subpoena Ex-MF Global Chief Senate Panel to Subpoena Ex-MF Global Chief Alabama Considers Inmates to Replace Immigrant Labor Alabama Considers Inmates to Replace Immigrant Labor App of Nutrient Removal Data for Your Crops Bayer Streamlines Crop Protection Portfolio Possible Scenarios for Moving on the Farm Bill Possible Scenarios for Moving on the Farm Bill New Approaches To Soil & Water Management Growers Can Earn Cash Rebates NCBA's Cattlemen to Cattlemen Examines the National Cattlemen's Beef Association NCBA's Cattlemen to Cattlemen Examines the National Cattlemen's Beef Association Iowa Corn, Soybean Performance Tests Available Sukup Introduces new Phase Converter for Centrifugal Dryers USDA Announces $50 Million for Gulf River Basins USDA Announces $50 Million for Gulf River Basins CME Discussing Relocation to Indianapolis CME Discussing Relocation to Indianapolis Cargill to Lay Off 2,000 Employees Cargill to Lay Off 2,000 Employees Japan Expands Import Capacity Japan Expands Import Capacity Environmental Group Sues Over LBL Farm Subsidies Environmental Group Sues Over LBL Farm Subsidies U.S. Navy Buys Biodiesel U.S. Navy Buys Biodiesel Corn Growers Grade Presidential Candidates Corn Growers Grade Presidential Candidates Soil And Water Conservation Week In Iowa Land Rent Continues To Capture Attention Across Corn Belt Coalition Responds to Proposed Child Labor Regulations Coalition Responds to Proposed Child Labor Regulations Coalition Responds to Proposed Child Labor Regulations Shock Waves from MF Global Collapse Felt On Farms Shock Waves from MF Global Collapse Felt On Farms FCC Comes Out Against Phone Merger FCC Comes Out Against Phone Merger MacDon Completes Self-Propelled Windrower Lineup Money to Fix Farm Conservation Practices Good Grain Quality For 2011 Crop Iowa Cattlemen To Set Policy Priorities Farmers Urged To Post Ethanol Signs Farmers Worry New Labor Rules Will End Teen Jobs Farmers Worry New Labor Rules Will End Teen Jobs Farmers Worry New Labor Rules Will End Teen Jobs Refuge in a Bag Will Make Planting Easier House Ag Committee Votes to Subpoena Corzine on MF Global House Ag Committee Votes to Subpoena Corzine on MF Global Groups Submit Comments to Department of Labor Groups Submit Comments to Department of Labor Groups Submit Comments to Department of Labor New Insurance Pilot Program for Biofuel-Friendly Oilseed Crop New Insurance Pilot Program for Biofuel-Friendly Oilseed Crop Sorghum Food Symposium Kicks off Japan Initiative Sorghum Food Symposium Kicks off Japan Initiative House Agriculture Subcommittee Audits USDA Inspector General House Agriculture Subcommittee Audits USDA Inspector General Pork Reinvigorates Holiday Flavor Flashbacks You Can Still Play Crop Marketing Game Consider Basis & Futures Carry Krone Redesigns Fixed-Chamber Baler for More Capacity and Efficiency One Congressman's Estate Tax Plan Would Devastate Agriculture One Congressman's Estate Tax Plan Would Devastate Agriculture One Congressman's Estate Tax Plan Would Devastate Agriculture Is Climate Change Affecting Iowa? Congress Could Intervene To Stop Railroad Strike Congress Could Intervene To Stop Railroad Strike Senate Agriculture Committee Will Investigate MF Global Collapse Senate Agriculture Committee Will Investigate MF Global Collapse Farm Dust Regulation Prevention Act Passes Committee Farm Dust Regulation Prevention Act Passes Committee Former Deputy Ag Secretary Sees Benefit from Ag Committee Proposal Former Deputy Ag Secretary Sees Benefit from Ag Committee Proposal U.S. Wheat Export Official Sees Full Market Share Recovery in Colombia U.S. Wheat Export Official Sees Full Market Share Recovery in Colombia Ranking Dates Announced for Four Major Conservation Initiatives Ranking Dates Announced for Four Major Conservation Initiatives Cattlewomen are Telling the Beef Story Cattlewomen are Telling the Beef Story EWG Seeks Elimination of Commodity Title in 2012 Farm Bill EWG Seeks Elimination of Commodity Title in 2012 Farm Bill FDA Examines Level of Arsenic in Apple Juice FDA Examines Level of Arsenic in Apple Juice EPA Extends Registrations For Smartstax Corn Kuhn Knight Redesigns RC 200 Commercial Feed Mixer ISU Breakthrough Provides More Biomass From Algae BLM Accused of Neglecting Science in Ecological Studies BLM Accused of Neglecting Science in Ecological Studies BLM Accused of Neglecting Science in Ecological Studies Central Banks Move To Stabilize Financial System Central Banks Move To Stabilize Financial System Europe Delays Major Debt Decisions for 10 Days Europe Delays Major Debt Decisions for 10 Days Lifting Horse Slaughter Ban Creates Controversy. Lifting Horse Slaughter Ban Creates Controversy. Driving Cattle And Hogs To Market FFA 'Planting A Seed' Grant Program Capture The Benefits Of USDA Loans Buy An Iowa-Grown Christmas Tree Donate Grain, Invest in Iowa's #1 Crop: Youth USDA Proposes Improvements to Deliver Disaster Assistance USDA Proposes Improvements to Deliver Disaster Assistance USDA Proposes Improvements to Deliver Disaster Assistance American Farm Bureau Says European Debt Could Cut U.S. Exports American Farm Bureau Says European Debt Could Cut U.S. Exports Time for Action on Lock and Dam Modernization Time for Action on Lock and Dam Modernization Students Learn to Pick Pork Mob Grazing Of Cattle Will Work In Iowa Farm Income Forecast Sees Big Jump from 2010 Farm Income Forecast Sees Big Jump from 2010 Farm Income Forecast Sees Big Jump from 2010 Buffett, Gates Foundations Fund African Soil Fertility Program UN Warns 25% of World Land Degraded UN Warns 25% of World Land Degraded RMA Lowers Some Crop Insurance Premiums RMA Lowers Some Crop Insurance Premiums Biodiesel Industry Sets Production Record Biodiesel Industry Sets Production Record Farmland Sales Strong Across U.S. Farmland Sales Strong Across U.S. CWT Assists with 7.4 Million Pounds of Cheese Export Sales New Welding Equipment Benefits Ag Education Student Teachers Pioneer Hi-Bred, Farms Technology Announce Enhancement to DPP Grain Desk Mobile App Delayed Planting Cost Bushels In Exclusive Test Plot USGC Delegation Visiting Colombia USGC Delegation Visiting Colombia Wind Energy Needs Some Certainty to Ensure Continued Growth Wind Energy Needs Some Certainty to Ensure Continued Growth Pork Producers Should Wait to Expand Pork Producers Should Wait to Expand Plans Underway for 10th Annual Beef Industry Safety Summit Plans Underway for 10th Annual Beef Industry Safety Summit E85 Wants Five Year Bridge E85 Wants Five Year Bridge Update Your Cropland Cash Rental Rate Next Generation to Get Help from Beginning Farmer Bill Register Now For Iowa Cattlemen's Convention Foundation Donates 110,000 Pounds Of Pork Evaluate Energy Payback & Savings On Farm USDA to Hold Public Meeting on E. Coli Rules USDA to Hold Public Meeting on E. Coli Rules Next Generation Impact: Proposed Child Labor Rule Comment Sought Next Generation Impact: Proposed Child Labor Rule Comment Sought Next Generation Impact: Proposed Child Labor Rule Comment Sought Farm Story to be Told Across Key TV Networks Farm Story to be Told Across Key TV Networks Farm Story to be Told Across Key TV Networks Boost Corn Per Acre Output with Texas Research Boost Corn Per Acre Output with Texas Research Priority Ag Issues To Be Discussed At Farm Bureau Annual Meeting Weed Identification Field Guide Goes Digital Timpte Lengthens Its American Ag Series Bulk Commodity Trailer Employee Management: Get Off To Right Start When Hiring Restoring Domestic Horse Slaughter Restoring Domestic Horse Slaughter Fun Turkey Facts For Thanksgiving Fun Turkey Facts For Thanksgiving Thanksgiving Questions and Answers Via Social Media Thanksgiving Questions and Answers Via Social Media Retrofit Your Tractor Cab for Like-New Appearance Organic Farming Is Profitable, Concludes Long-Running Experiment Farm Family To Host Cattle Open House Sysco Slammers Serve Up Pork Inspiration More Money Missing from MF Global More Money Missing from MF Global Farm Bill Will Need Additional Work Farm Bill Will Need Additional Work Rural Development Funding Will Improve Health Care Rural Development Funding Will Improve Health Care Who Will Be New Director Of Leopold Center? Soybean Group Invites Nominations For New Awards South Korea Ratifies FTA South Korea Ratifies FTA South Korea Ratifies FTA Super Committee Admits Failure Super Committee Admits Failure U.S.-China Wrap Up Commerce and Trade Conference U.S.-China Wrap Up Commerce and Trade Conference U.S.-China Wrap Up Commerce and Trade Conference Lamy Calls for Trade Opening Lamy Calls for Trade Opening Domino's Delivers for the Dairy Industry Harvest Weight Limit Exemption Expires Nov. 27 Iowa Land Values Up 31% From Year Ago ATV-Mounted PolyFence Wizard Makes Temporary Fencing A Snap Super Committee Fails, Now What? Super Committee Fails, Now What? DuPont and Evogene Enter Multiyear Collaboration for Soybean Rust Resistance Farm Bill Proposal Delivered to Super Committee Farm Bill Proposal Delivered to Super Committee South Korean President Urges FTA Passage South Korean President Urges FTA Passage South Korean President Urges FTA Passage Iowa Beef Producers On Trade Mission to Japan New Wind Energy Farms Being Added In Iowa President Proclaims National Farm-City Week President Proclaims National Farm-City Week Celebrate Thanksgiving With Beef Celebrate Thanksgiving With Beef USDA Issues CRP Payments Issued For 2011 Check Corn Plot Trial Results As They Are Posted Automate Farm Tractor Cooling System Do Presidential Candidates Support Biofuels? Iowa Organic Conference 2011 Coming Up Iowa Farmers Support Local, State Food Pantries WTO Rules on COOL WTO Rules on COOL WTO Rules on COOL NCBA Hopes To See Livestock Title Eliminated From Farm Bill NCBA Hopes To See Livestock Title Eliminated From Farm Bill NCBA Hopes To See Livestock Title Eliminated From Farm Bill Dairy Reform a Hot Topic at NMPF Annual Meeting Dairy Reform a Hot Topic at NMPF Annual Meeting Manage Corn Rootworm Hot Spots Farmers Complete 61,000 Ton Biomass Harvest Pork Checkoff Supports Return of McRib Nationwide Deal Struck to Change Route of Pipeline Deal Struck to Change Route of Pipeline Federal Partners Unite to Help Rural Communities Federal Partners Unite to Help Rural Communities Answers To Farm Flex Lease Questions Avoid Livestock Legal Problems ESCO Offers New Wheel Dolly for Agricultural Equipment Making a Statement with a Combine Rollout Vilsack Announces Investments in International Market Development Vilsack Announces Investments in International Market Development Vilsack Announces Investments in International Market Development Farm Energy Grants Available For Iowa Farm Bill Talks Concern NCGA Farm Bill Talks Concern NCGA Ag Appropriations Bill Out of Conference Ag Appropriations Bill Out of Conference NMPF Elects New Board Officers at Annual Meeting Yetter Stalk Devastator Prevents Tire and Track Stubble Damage Iowa Corn Collegiate Advisory Team Named American Farm Bureau Voices Concerns About the Farm Bill American Farm Bureau Voices Concerns About the Farm Bill MF Global Bankruptcy Will Have Repercussions for Grain Markets MF Global Bankruptcy Will Have Repercussions for Grain Markets USDA Funding Broadband Services in Rural Areas USDA Funding Broadband Services in Rural Areas USMEF's Branded Products Program to Begin New Fiscal Year USMEF's Branded Products Program to Begin New Fiscal Year Iowa Farmers To Be Surveyed By USDA Risk Management Seminars For Pork Producers New Grower's Manual From Leopold Center Iowa Delegates To 2011 National 4-H Congress Gifts Of Land Support Your Local Community Alliance Offers Speed-Rated Agricultural Flotation Tire Tool For Nitrate Treatment Cleans The Water Veterans Are Focus Of BFC's New Partnership Iowa Cropland Still Dry In Mid-November Making a Charitable Contribution of Grain Making a Charitable Contribution of Grain We Test Oregon-Blount's Battery Chainsaw Supreme Court Hears 'Downed' Livestock Arguments Supreme Court Hears 'Downed' Livestock Arguments Supreme Court Hears 'Downed' Livestock Arguments 2011 Corn Crop Is Still Fourth Largest Ever Wetland Applications Due By Dec. 1 Senator Charles Grassley Says Any Hope for Payment Limits Rests with Super Committee Senator Charles Grassley Says Any Hope for Payment Limits Rests with Super Committee Ag Secretary Announces Agricultural Export Numbers Ag Secretary Announces Agricultural Export Numbers Senator is Uncertain about Ability of Super Committee Senator is Uncertain about Ability of Super Committee Harvest Weight Limit Exemption Extended BinMaster Has New Level Sensor for Bins and Silos Japan Wants Spot at Table for Trade Initiative Talks Japan Wants Spot at Table for Trade Initiative Talks FSIS Delays Labeling Rules Implementation FSIS Delays Labeling Rules Implementation Iowa Forage & Grassland Conference Coming Up Final Push to Complete Pork Checkoff Budget Take a Corn Seedsman to Lunch for a Change! Still No Free Lunch? Still No Free Lunch? Bring New Land Into Production? Iowa Has Big Corn Yield, Despite Problems Can You Graze Annual Cover Crops? How To Handle Soils After The Flood 'Protein' Coalition Applauds Labeling Delay 'Protein' Coalition Applauds Labeling Delay USDA Releases Funds for Energy Projects USDA Releases Funds for Energy Projects Council Begins Lower-Oil DDGS Education Efforts Council Begins Lower-Oil DDGS Education Efforts Cost of Thanksgiving Day Meal Higher Cost of Thanksgiving Day Meal Higher Iowa Corn Supports Fuel Tax Increase Iowa Wine Business Continues To Grow What Does Soil Erosion Cost You? Power Mig 256 Joins Lincoln's Welder Line Monsanto Reinforces Commitment To Product Stewardship Deadline Extended to Meet New Spill Requirements Deadline Extended to Meet New Spill Requirements United Ethanol Settles Air Quality Suit United Ethanol Settles Air Quality Suit American Farm Bureau Federation President Discusses Ag Issues American Farm Bureau Federation President Discusses Ag Issues American Farm Bureau Federation President Discusses Ag Issues Report Shows Benefits of Atrazine Report Shows Benefits of Atrazine Iowa Renewable Fuels Marketing Awards Beginning Farmer Program Gets $128,000 Grant Reducing Energy Costs for Rural Businesses Reducing Energy Costs for Rural Businesses FCA Board Proposes Rule Amending Liquidity Management Regulation FCA Board Proposes Rule Amending Liquidity Management Regulation International Chefs Show Love for American Pork Butt Positives Abound During USFRA's First Year Positives Abound During USFRA's First Year Window to Submit Farm Bill is Closing Window to Submit Farm Bill is Closing Flood Control Should Be Top Priority For Missouri River Beginning Farmer and Rancher Opportunity Act an Important Step for Agriculture Beginning Farmer and Rancher Opportunity Act an Important Step for Agriculture Beginning Farmer and Rancher Opportunity Act an Important Step for Agriculture USFRA Communication Advisory Committee Planning for 2012 USFRA Communication Advisory Committee Planning for 2012 Pfizer Animal Health Opens Equine Research Center We Like the Oregon PowerSharp System CruiserMaxx Advanced Soybean Seed Treatment Now Available Learn About Raising Cattle Under Roof Food Safety Seminars Set For December Last Chance to Win $2,500 For Your Community Drainage Forum Offered By Extension Greenhorn Grazing Looks at Stockpiling Livestock Care And Handling Seminars New Global Study Reveals Gaps Between Consumers, Farmers New Global Study Reveals Gaps Between Consumers, Farmers USFRA Kicks Off First Annual Meeting USFRA Kicks Off First Annual Meeting USFRA Kicks Off First Annual Meeting Lawmakers Want Answers from Army Corps on 2011 Flood, Plans for 2012 Lawmakers Want Answers from Army Corps on 2011 Flood, Plans for 2012 Iowa Agriculture Is Still A Powerhouse Iowa Corn Growers File Comments On Atrazine U.S. Supreme Court Upholds RFS2 U.S. Supreme Court Upholds RFS2 Dow AgroSciences Successfully Produces 2,4-D Choline Not Pleased With Candidate's Energy Plan Switch From Harvest Mode To Grain Keeper Mode Syngenta Receives Approval For Triple Stack Corn In Argentina Still No Farm Bill Details from Ag Leadership Still No Farm Bill Details from Ag Leadership Pork Checkoff Offers Insight, Tips on Manure Pit Foaming Money To Repair Conservation Practices More Counties Get Disaster Designation Economists Question ACRE's Worth Economists Question ACRE's Worth Meeting Between U.S. and China Scheduled Meeting Between U.S. and China Scheduled Iowa Organic Conference Set For Ames Dry Weather, Storage Lift Corn Prices 'Prime Example of Federal Overreach' Trend-Adjusted APH Yield Endorsement Farm Dust Regulation Prevention Act Passes Subcommittee Farm Dust Regulation Prevention Act Passes Subcommittee Chesapeake Bay Watershed Battle Continues Chesapeake Bay Watershed Battle Continues FSA County Committee Elections Begin FSA County Committee Elections Begin Iowa Wins $1 Million Green Investment Grant Iowa Cattlemen Schedule December Convention Fed Bank Economist says Agriculture Strong in Midwest and Great Plains Regions Fed Bank Economist says Agriculture Strong in Midwest and Great Plains Regions Beef Checkoff Announces Landmark Sustainability Project Beef Checkoff Announces Landmark Sustainability Project USMEF Conference Kicks off in Tucson USMEF Conference Kicks off in Tucson USMEF Conference Kicks off in Tucson EPA's Chesapeake Bay Model a Burden to States, Rural Communities EPA's Chesapeake Bay Model a Burden to States, Rural Communities Priorities For The Peoples Farm Bill Fuel Tax Increase Supported By Farm Bureau Clearing Up The Misunderstanding About So-Called Shallow Loss Programs Clearing Up The Misunderstanding About So-Called Shallow Loss Programs USDA Sets Meeting to Identify Pre-Harvest Pathogen Controls in Beef USDA Sets Meeting to Identify Pre-Harvest Pathogen Controls in Beef USDA Sets Meeting to Identify Pre-Harvest Pathogen Controls in Beef PFI To Hold Four Fall Pasture Walks House Members Press Forward with Effort to Stop EPA Regulation of Farm Dust House Members Press Forward with Effort to Stop EPA Regulation of Farm Dust Ag Safety Hall of Fame Award To Schouten Food Safety Training Grant Goes To ISU Farmers To Hold Aquaponics Field Day Interstate Sale of Raw Milk Debated New Extension Food Safety Specialist Grassley Pushes For Farm Payment Limits Senate Approves Ag Appropriations Bill Senate Approves Ag Appropriations Bill Check With NRCS Before Working Wet Areas Senate Fails to Address Pesticide Ruling Senate Fails to Address Pesticide Ruling La Nina Is Still With Us In Fall Of 2011 Comment Period on Ag Labor Regulations Extended Comment Period on Ag Labor Regulations Extended Comment Period on Ag Labor Regulations Extended Sukup Designs Corrosion Prevention for Grain Bins Register Now For Iowa's Big Crop Conference Pigford II Settlement Receives Court Approval Pigford II Settlement Receives Court Approval Window of Opportunity Closing on Pesticide Permits Window of Opportunity Closing on Pesticide Permits Farm Bill Energy Funding Pushed by AEC Farm Bill Energy Funding Pushed by AEC What Comes After Harvest? Curtis Industries Cabs Polaris Ranger Crew New Soybean Agronomist At ISU Anhydrous Ammonia Application & Dry Soils USDA Still at Work on Finalizing GIPSA Rule USDA Still at Work on Finalizing GIPSA Rule USDA Still at Work on Finalizing GIPSA Rule Rural Development in New Farm Bill? Surveys Reveal Consumers' Knowledge Gap on Food Surveys Reveal Consumers' Knowledge Gap on Food Vilsack Sees Conservation Link In Farm Bill Rules Would Put Limits On Kids' Farm Chores Anhydrous Ammonia Price Rising Again Super Committee Failure Would Cripple Ag Super Committee Failure Would Cripple Ag New Water Quality Practice Offers First-Year Surprises Choose Soybean Varieties Resistant To SCN Build A High-Profit Beef Business Build A High-Profit Beef Business Take The Iowa Commodity Challenge Tom Vilsack's Farm Bill Wish List Mahindra Adds More Traction to 4025 Nebraska Governor Concerned About Route of Pipeline Nebraska Governor Concerned About Route of Pipeline Senators Seek Extension of Comment Period on Proposed Labor Rule Senators Seek Extension of Comment Period on Proposed Labor Rule USDA Announces Economic Development Funding USDA Announces Economic Development Funding Comprehensive Tax Reform is Needed to Resolve Uncertainty Comprehensive Tax Reform is Needed to Resolve Uncertainty Vilsack Announces Plan to Travel to Vietnam and China in November Vilsack Announces Plan to Travel to Vietnam and China in November Vilsack Announces Plan to Travel to Vietnam and China in November House Ag Chair Admits Pulling Farm Bill Together a Tall Order House Ag Chair Admits Pulling Farm Bill Together a Tall Order Ag Education Leader Crawford Honored At ISU Naked Truth On Genetically Engineered Foods Chicken Markets Starting To Approach Breakeven American Ethanol Paint Scheme Featured in Upcoming NASCAR Race American Ethanol Paint Scheme Featured in Upcoming NASCAR Race Versatile Answers Critics With Comfort, Power and Clean Air DuPont and Plant Sensory Systems Collaborate to Increase Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Corn Farm Bill Process Rolling with Ag Leaders Striving for Nov. 1 Deadline Farm Bill Process Rolling with Ag Leaders Striving for Nov. 1 Deadline Cattlemen Need Certainty That Comes With Legislation to Block EPA Dust Regs Cattlemen Need Certainty That Comes With Legislation to Block EPA Dust Regs Cattlemen Need Certainty That Comes With Legislation to Block EPA Dust Regs 'Agriculture For Life' Summit Coming Up 'Farm To School' Month Is An Opportunity Select Right Seed To Meet Your Needs New Farm Lighting Guidelines Save Money Rural Entrepreneur Summit Set For Ames College Of Ag & Life Sciences Alums Honored Producers Invited To ISU Beef Showcase All Versatile Farm Makes it 100,000! Senate Not Likely to Bring Relief from Pesticide Permits Before Deadline Senate Not Likely to Bring Relief from Pesticide Permits Before Deadline Son Tek Unveils Doppler Irrigation Meter Continued Dry Weather Speeds Iowa Harvest Farm Bureau Proposes 'Systemic Risk Reduction' Farm Program Farm Bureau Proposes 'Systemic Risk Reduction' Farm Program Coalition Presents Roundtable Discussion in Continued Push for Open Fuel Standard Coalition Presents Roundtable Discussion in Continued Push for Open Fuel Standard Test For Soybean Cyst Nematode Now Fall Soil Testing Can Maximize Profitability Cub Cadet Ups the Ante in Zero Turn Mower Market Senate Passes Income Cap Amendment Senate Passes Income Cap Amendment World Dairy Expo Has Record Setting Year Roadblock to Russia's WTO Bid Removed Roadblock to Russia's WTO Bid Removed Direct Payments Likely Out of Next Farm Bill Direct Payments Likely Out of Next Farm Bill Food Day is About Food Food Day is About Food Child Labor Law Changes Proposed For Farms European Debt Crisis Solution Still Days Away European Debt Crisis Solution Still Days Away USDA Secretary Vilsack Sends Key Message to FFA: Think Ag USDA Secretary Vilsack Sends Key Message to FFA: Think Ag Pork Quality Assurance Deadline Approaching How Should You Handle Wet Corn? Worksaver Clamps On Snow Blade for Convenience Will Conservation Programs Be Cut? U.S. EPA Seeks to Collect CAFO Information FFA Members Learn About Soybeans In Field Film To Showcase Life Of Henry A. Wallace Soybean Rust Wasn't A Threat In 2011 It's Official: Obama Signs FTAs It's Official: Obama Signs FTAs Superfund Common-Sense Act Introduced Superfund Common-Sense Act Introduced Superfund Common-Sense Act Introduced Top 10 Title I Alternatives Studied Top 10 Title I Alternatives Studied Farmland Draws Increased Interest From Investors Gift Helps Complete ISU Biorenewables Facility Eight Factors for Confident Vaccine Selection New Crop Insurance Innovations 10 Safety Net Proposals Side-by-Side Proposed Labor Regulations Under Review Proposed Labor Regulations Under Review LS Tractors Takes The Clutch Out Of Shifting 2011 Harvest Progress Ahead Of Normal Vilsack Speaks Out On FTAs Vilsack Speaks Out On FTAs Deadline is Drawing Near for Pesticide Permits Deadline is Drawing Near for Pesticide Permits Grazing Cattle For Best Of Both Worlds Public Comment Extended On Animal ID Rule AerWay Offers Single-Pass Aeration, Seeding Recycling Company Offers Wares to Agriculture 'Stay Home and Grill Out' Summer Grilling Beef Promotion 'Stay Home and Grill Out' Summer Grilling Beef Promotion EPA Extends Oil Containment Regulations Deadline EPA Extends Oil Containment Regulations Deadline A Closer Look at the ARRM Farm Bill Proposal A Closer Look at the ARRM Farm Bill Proposal Senators Promote Program Cap Bill Senators Promote Program Cap Bill NRCS Provided More Than $53 Million For Iowa Practical Farmers Announce Fall Farminars Cover Crop Field Day Set For Central Iowa Times Blogger To Discuss Global Population Big Power Line Project Proposed To Transport Iowa Wind Energy Syngenta Introduces Gramoxone SL Herbicide for Optimal User Experience Miss America Promotes Agricultural Website Temporary Berms Provide Spill Protection McCain Seeking Ethanol Amendment Vote McCain Seeking Ethanol Amendment Vote Hunger-Fighting Presidents Win Food Prize New Resource For Prairie Conservation Strips NASS Announces Elimination of Some Surveys and Reports NASS Announces Elimination of Some Surveys and Reports Several Groups and Legislators Respond to EPA Dust Announcement Several Groups and Legislators Respond to EPA Dust Announcement Several Groups and Legislators Respond to EPA Dust Announcement Ag Committees Recommend $23 Billion Cut to Ag Spending Ag Committees Recommend $23 Billion Cut to Ag Spending USDA Gives 60 Counties Disaster Designation Winners of HealthierUS School Challenge Saluted Winners of HealthierUS School Challenge Saluted Producer Input Needed to Help Improve PQA Plus Program Ending Hunger Isn't Just An Ag Issue EPA Regional Administrator Confirms EPA Dust Decision EPA Regional Administrator Confirms EPA Dust Decision Ward Off Cold Air Effects This Winter USTR Chief Ag Negotiator Says More Trade Efforts in the Works USTR Chief Ag Negotiator Says More Trade Efforts in the Works Talk Renewable Fuels With Presidential Candidates Conner Believes Request for Moratorium on Regulation a Fair One Conner Believes Request for Moratorium on Regulation a Fair One U.S. Meat Export Figures Released U.S. Meat Export Figures Released Iowa Farm Groups Applaud Passage Of FTAs Corn In Storage Next Thing to Watch Currency Exchange Rate Bill Passes Senate Currency Exchange Rate Bill Passes Senate President's Jobs Package Fails President's Jobs Package Fails Great Plains Introduces The Turbo-Max FSA Loans Now Have Higher Limits Iowa Corn Crop Up 7%, Beans Down 6% In 2011 Iowa Hunger-Fighting Efforts Reach $12.1 Million Ag Spending Cuts Coming Into Focus NCBA Expresses Their Support and Appreciation for FTA Passage NCBA Expresses Their Support and Appreciation for FTA Passage Super Committee's Cuts Will Impact Farm Bill Super Committee's Cuts Will Impact Farm Bill Swine Science Online Has Its First Graduate Farm Energy Reduction Saves Money Extend Diesel Fuel with Natural Gas for Savings Land Price Rise Affects Estate Plans Checkoff Work in Nigeria Pays Big Dividends for U.S. Wheat Growers Checkoff Work in Nigeria Pays Big Dividends for U.S. Wheat Growers Topcon and AMAZONE Form Partnership American Lamb Jam Masters Hits the Big Apple Favorable Reaction to FTA Passage Continues Favorable Reaction to FTA Passage Continues NRCS Chief Touts Progress in Conservation NRCS Chief Touts Progress in Conservation Positive Reaction Pouring in on FTA Passage Positive Reaction Pouring in on FTA Passage Pork Checkoff Recommends Producers and Workers Get Flu Vaccination Senator Sees Merit in Moratorium on Regulations Senator Sees Merit in Moratorium on Regulations Hearing Focuses on Reform Legislation Hearing Focuses on Reform Legislation And Now, The Perfect Bungee Specialty Crop Grants For 12 Iowa Groups New DVD Focuses On Manure Management Topcon and AMAZONE Form Partnership Ag Committee Holds Hearing on Wall Street Reform Ag Committee Holds Hearing on Wall Street Reform Both Chambers of Congress Pass FTA's Both Chambers of Congress Pass FTA's 2011 Iowa Corn, Soybean Harvest Rolls Along Beachell-Borlaug Scholarship Winners For 2011 New Blog Accounts Iowa 4-H History Hutchcroft Inducted Into National 4-H Hall of Fame Farmers Respond to Consumer Demand For More Organic Food Would Consumers Voluntarily Pay More? Iowa Youth Celebrate National 4-H Week Final Days for Committees to Make Recommendations to Super Committee Final Days for Committees to Make Recommendations to Super Committee Rural Business Opportunity Grants Awarded How To Interpret Manure Nutrient Test Results Data Collection is Easy from Grain Cart Are the FTA Agreements Hours Away? Are the FTA Agreements Hours Away? Are the FTA Agreements Hours Away? National School Lunch Week Underway National School Lunch Week Underway Ground Beef Recalled by California Firm Ground Beef Recalled by California Firm Young People Yearn To Return To Family Farm Farmers In Developing World Need To Use Technology Farmers In Developing World Need To Use Technology Pork Producers Council Favors Altering RFS New All-Season Bar Track from Bobcat Panama Canal Expansion Should Reduce Cost of Transport Panama Canal Expansion Should Reduce Cost of Transport Feinstein to Introduce Guest Worker Program Feinstein to Introduce Guest Worker Program ASA Calls on Producers to Contact Legislators on FTA ASA Calls on Producers to Contact Legislators on FTA Pioneer, Bunge Announce 2012 Plenish High Oleic Soy IP Contract Program Groups Voicing Recommendations for Super Committee Groups Voicing Recommendations for Super Committee Comment Period on New Animal ID Rule Extended Comment Period on New Animal ID Rule Extended Comment Period on New Animal ID Rule Extended Congress Will Be Focusing on FTAs This Week Congress Will Be Focusing on FTAs This Week World Dairy Expo Hosts Six Successful Breed Sales Expect Exports to Continue As long as Foreign Buyers Can Afford Grain Farm Bill Proposals Continue to Pour In Farm Bill Proposals Continue to Pour In Be Cautious Interpreting Soil Test Results World Food Prize Highlights Need To Combat Hunger, Malnutrition, Poverty Kuhn Offers New Bale Processor Proposals Unveiled For 2012 Farm Bill Burned-Up Combines Are Costly Misadventure Are Your Yields Better Than Expected? Iowa Corn Supports Pending Free Trade Agreements Farm Bill Proposal Would Save $40 Billion Farm Bill Proposal Would Save $40 Billion Two Professors Receive Ag College Honor Immigration Issues Linger in Congress Immigration Issues Linger in Congress Importance of Transportation Highlighted at Economic Summit Importance of Transportation Highlighted at Economic Summit SURE Payment Sign-Up Announced New Honda Four Wheeler For Work and Play RFS Report Misses Some Developments RFS Report Misses Some Developments USDA Boosts Beginning Farmer Program Annie's Project To Develop 'Second Level' Course Tracking Study Shows New Brand Resonates with Target Market Tracking Study Shows New Brand Resonates with Target Market Watch For Weeds As You Harvest This Fall Avoid Combine Fires In Corn, Soybean Fields Swift Action Taken on Pending FTAs Swift Action Taken on Pending FTAs Legislation to Alter RFS Introduced Legislation to Alter RFS Introduced USDA Funds Support Specialty Crops USDA Funds Support Specialty Crops Mahindra USA Cuts Ribbons to New Headquarters in Houston Cheap Sugars For Sustainable Biofuel Iowa Soybean Association Elects New Officers House Ways and Means Passes FTAs House Ways and Means Passes FTAs House Ways and Means Passes FTAs USFRA Pleased By Food Dialogues USFRA Pleased By Food Dialogues Vilsack Talks About Opportunities FTAs Offer Vilsack Talks About Opportunities FTAs Offer ISU Gets $25M As Part Of New Biofuel Program USGC Releases Results of Their China Corn Tour USGC Releases Results of Their China Corn Tour 'Dogs, Frogs and Nature Songs' CD Released World Food Prize To Mark 25th Anniversary Use Caution When Pumping Manure From Deep-pits Africa's Green Revolution Moving Forward New Video 'Out to the Lakes' Available National Academy of Sciences Report Criticizes RFS National Academy of Sciences Report Criticizes RFS Information Issued to Combat Meatless Monday Information Issued to Combat Meatless Monday AFBF Backs Capital Gains Legislation AFBF Backs Capital Gains Legislation Fall Is Great Time For A Farm Visit Brehmer Adds Aluminum Silage Box Michelin Offering Rebates On Ag Tire Purchases Through November Red Flag Warning Issued For Field Fires Pioneer Hi-Bred Releases New Silage BMR Hybrid Sending FTAs to Congress Receiving Favorable Reactions Sending FTAs to Congress Receiving Favorable Reactions Senator Touts Bipartisan Farm Bill Proposal Senator Touts Bipartisan Farm Bill Proposal USDA Announces Funding for Economic Development in Rural America USDA Announces Funding for Economic Development in Rural America Lending Limits Increased For FSA Loans Disaster Designation For 7 More Iowa Counties Former USB Chair Stepping Down from Board Former USB Chair Stepping Down from Board IDF and FAO Launch Revised Guide To Good Dairy Farming Practice Hauler Utility Vehicles From Cushman Hit The Market Early Reports Say It Wasn't A Good Year for Corn after Corn Farm Bureau Farm Bill Reviewed Farm Bureau Farm Bill Reviewed ICGA Wants USDA To Reverse Sweetener Decision Goodlatte Wants Rollback of RFS Goodlatte Wants Rollback of RFS AGCO to Acquire GSI Holdings Ag Committee Chair Addresses Farm Bill Ag Committee Chair Addresses Farm Bill Checkoff-Funded Market Research Checkoff-Funded Market Research President Sends FTA's to Congress President Sends FTA's to Congress President Sends FTA's to Congress Do I Qualify For SURE This Year? Leath Named Iowa State's Next President Iowa Hog Numbers Up 4% From Year Ago Watch For Mold And Fungus In Corn Meat Recall Leads to Russian Ban Meat Recall Leads to Russian Ban Focus Is On Glyphosate Weed Resistance Dry Fields, Winds Cause Harvest Fires Funds Announced to Support Beginning Farmers and Ranchers Funds Announced to Support Beginning Farmers and Ranchers Farm Bill Proposals Coming Fast and Furious Farm Bill Proposals Coming Fast and Furious NCGA Encourages Passage of Three Key Trade Agreements NCGA Encourages Passage of Three Key Trade Agreements Watch For Weekly Fuel Price Report DMI Annual Report Available at Dairy Checkoff Website Tax Credit For The Little Guys ASA Issues Action Alert ASA Issues Action Alert The Wheels On The Rig Go Round And Round Apply For Iowa Corn Collegiate Advisory Team Struggle over FTAs Continues Struggle over FTAs Continues ISU Energy Economist Moving From CARD Iowa Growers React To Obama's Proposal Grassley Speaks Out on RFS and Farm Bill Grassley Speaks Out on RFS and Farm Bill Wisconsin Lawmakers Seek to Overturn State's Margarine Ban USDA Official Leads Trade Delegation to Vietnam USDA Official Leads Trade Delegation to Vietnam Quarterly Hogs and Pigs Report Shows Higher Inventory Quarterly Hogs and Pigs Report Shows Higher Inventory Missouri River Flood Damage Revealed Missouri River Flood Damage Revealed Keep In Contact With Past FFA Friends Payments for Advanced Biofuels Announced Payments for Advanced Biofuels Announced Farmer Field Day To Focus On Quality Beef Savings Incentive Plan For Beginning Farmers Register Now For Iowa Hunger Summit Students Can Apply For Beef Scholarships New Cow-Calf Production Handbook Severe Rootworm Damage To Bt Corn Porter-Cable Redesigns 18 Volt Drill/Driver, Hammerdrill Nominations Open for Positions on National Pork Board Syngenta Fails to Obtain Injunction Against Bunge Syngenta Fails to Obtain Injunction Against Bunge Sweepstakes Celebrates Speed, Staying Power Of Kixor Herbicide Northey Elected President Of National Group State Of Iowa, Hog Producer Reach Settlement Flusher Keeps C-P Irrigation Machines Clean House Subcommittee Holds Field Hearing on Internet House Subcommittee Holds Field Hearing on Internet Sampling for SCN This Fall Can Save Soybean Yield Next Growing Season Sampling for SCN This Fall Can Save Soybean Yield Next Growing Season Study Finds Pork Producers Receive Return on Investment in USMEF's Market Development Programs USDA Launches MyPlate Video Challenge USDA Launches MyPlate Video Challenge 4-H Paper Clover Fundraiser Continues Support New Farm Bill Plan Introduced New Farm Bill Plan Introduced RFA Wants Current RFS Maintained RFA Wants Current RFS Maintained Remember Conservation Plan Requirements Value of Ag Export Programs Recognized by White House Value of Ag Export Programs Recognized by White House When To Harvest Could Boil Down To Numbers New Dairy Program Offered New Dairy Program Offered IAS Introduces a Wireless Blockage Monitor for Air Seeders Got Wilt? Keep Corn Disease Resistance In Mind Beef Checkoff Sets FY2012 Plan of Work Drainage Ditch Maintenance Waivers How To Avoid Over-Dried Corn Good News For Iowa Cellulosic Ethanol Plant Evaluate Frost Damage To Your Crops Super Committee Holds A Lot of Sway Over Farm Bill Super Committee Holds A Lot of Sway Over Farm Bill Can Fungicide Help Speed Up Corn Harvest? Harvest Checklist For Crop Insurance Yamaha Introduces a 'Baby' Bear Atrazine Up for Review Again Atrazine Up for Review Again USTR's Kirk and WTO's Lamy Meeting to Discuss Doha USTR's Kirk and WTO's Lamy Meeting to Discuss Doha Does Corn Lose Drymatter After Reaching 'Black Layer'? USFRA: Get Family Back To The Dinner Table (4 of 4) USFRA: Get Family Back To The Dinner Table (4 of 4) Food Dialogues Talk About Sustainability (3 of 4) Food Dialogues Talk About Sustainability (3 of 4) Food Dialogues Hit Hot Topics at D.C.Town Hall Meeting (2 of 4) Food Dialogues Hit Hot Topics at D.C.Town Hall Meeting (2 of 4) USFRA Holds First Town Hall Meeting in Indiana USFRA Holds First Town Hall Meeting in Indiana Food Dialogues Event Hosted by USFRA Food Dialogues Event Hosted by USFRA Setting the Record Straight - Hay is Not a 'Pollutant' Setting the Record Straight - Hay is Not a 'Pollutant' Setting the Record Straight - Hay is Not a 'Pollutant' Iowa Beef Facilities Tour Draws Big Crowd Fall Herbicide Applications Can Ease Spring-Planting Crunch More Problems for FTA? More Problems for FTA? Votes Impacting Agriculture Taken in House Votes Impacting Agriculture Taken in House NMPF Board Advocates Changes to Peterson-Simpson Dairy Policy Reform Package Robo-Sharpener From Case IH Keeps Tillage Blades Sharp Senate Vote May Clear the Way for FTAs Senate Vote May Clear the Way for FTAs Teach Your Kids To Be Safe On Internet Top 4-H Livestock, Meats Judging Teams Announced Keep Air Running On 2011 Grain This Fall Explore Unique Horticulture Topics At Field Day Farm Crawl To Be Held In Knoxville-Lacona Area Vermeer Unwraps New Bale Wrapper USTR Files Case Against China With WTO USTR Files Case Against China With WTO President's Recommendations to Reduce Deficit Receiving Some Heat President's Recommendations to Reduce Deficit Receiving Some Heat Meat Products Recalled Update On Farmland Ownership, Leasing Issues ICA Has Bull & Heifer Evaluation Program Job Creation Partnerships Promoted by USDA Rural Development Job Creation Partnerships Promoted by USDA Rural Development President's Deficit Reduction Package Released President's Deficit Reduction Package Released Farmers Urged To Report Flood Impact Vermeer Has New Baler Offerings Harvest Weight Exemption Granted In Iowa Senninger Flow Meter is New Monitoring Tool FSA Extends Sign Up for BCAP FSA Extends Sign Up for BCAP Around The World of Dairy in Five Days Researchers Looking Into Sugar Beets as Fuel Source Orthman Grain Cart Features Double Auger Region 7 EPA Administrator Sets Record Straight Region 7 EPA Administrator Sets Record Straight Region 7 EPA Administrator Sets Record Straight Farmers' Guide to CSP Program Senators Want EPA Administrator to Take Stance Senators Want EPA Administrator to Take Stance REAP Funding More than 500 Rural Projects REAP Funding More than 500 Rural Projects The Causes Behind Rising Food Prices The Causes Behind Rising Food Prices The Causes Behind Rising Food Prices EPA Seeking Public Comment on Request for Atrazine Ban EPA Seeking Public Comment on Request for Atrazine Ban Subcommittee Listens to Concerns about Feed Availability VR1428 Makes a Lot of Hay Drop in Corn Yield May Not Be Over Yet ISU Gets Grant For Corn Breeding Position Mild Frost Or Killing Frost, Impact On Crops Freezing Temperatures Nip Parts Of Iowa Flying-On Cover Crops This Fall? House Ag Leadership Concerned about Super Committee House Ag Leadership Concerned about Super Committee Threat of Dry Winter for Already Drought-Devastated States Threat of Dry Winter for Already Drought-Devastated States Senate Approves Cuba Amendment Senate Approves Cuba Amendment Bipartisan Ag Research Bill Introduced to Spur Innovation Bipartisan Ag Research Bill Introduced to Spur Innovation Fall Cutting Management For Alfalfa Website Helps Landowners & Beginning Farmers Consumer Contest in Japan Highlights U.S. Pork Butt Recipes Value Of Iowa Land Jumps 33% In Year Lindsay Unveils New Model Numbers Subcommittee Completes Audit Series Subcommittee Completes Audit Series AFBF Reports Marketbasket Survey Results AFBF Reports Marketbasket Survey Results Freeze Event This Week Could Greatly Impact Immature Crops Freeze Event This Week Could Greatly Impact Immature Crops FTA Delay Costing American Farmers FTA Delay Costing American Farmers FTA Delay Costing American Farmers Comparing Corn Nematode Management Products Prussic Acid Poisoning Potential In Frosted Forages RFA Says Ethanol's Bad Rap Unwarranted RFA Says Ethanol's Bad Rap Unwarranted Pork Inspires Barbecue Buffs in Washington, D.C. Propane Powered GM Conversions Propelling Growth Across The Value-Chain From Seed-To-Shelf NFU is in Washington for Their Fall Fly-In NFU is in Washington for Their Fall Fly-In Farmers with Flood-damaged Crops Are Getting Assistance from USDA, FDA Farmers with Flood-damaged Crops Are Getting Assistance from USDA, FDA Farmers Union Leader to Take Helm of International Ag Group Farmers Union Leader to Take Helm of International Ag Group Driving Demand for Dairy, Food and Product Innovations Check the Tires Please Lesson Learned: Managing Soil By The Inch Silage & Seed Corn Harvest Moving Along Reaction to USDA E. coli Announcement Mixed Reaction to USDA E. coli Announcement Mixed Reaction to USDA E. coli Announcement Mixed NCGA Releases Farm Bill Proposal NCGA Releases Farm Bill Proposal How the American Jobs Act Applies to Rural America How the American Jobs Act Applies to Rural America Keeping The Latest USDA Corn Numbers In Perspective Keeping The Latest USDA Corn Numbers In Perspective Corps Says Missouri River Headed Down Cover Crop Movement Gaining Momentum NCBA Pushing Several Pieces of Legislation NCBA Pushing Several Pieces of Legislation NCBA Pushing Several Pieces of Legislation Burton Eller Retires from NCBA Burton Eller Retires from NCBA Iowa Corn, Soybean Growers Respond To Crop Report Hearing Being Held in Sugar Lawsuit Against HFCS Hearing Being Held in Sugar Lawsuit Against HFCS USDA Extends Zero Tolerance Policy for Six Additional E. coli Serogroups USDA Extends Zero Tolerance Policy for Six Additional E. coli Serogroups USDA Extends Zero Tolerance Policy for Six Additional E. coli Serogroups Don't Miss Disaster Assistance Deadlines Three Regulatory Bills Introduced in Senate Three Regulatory Bills Introduced in Senate Three Regulatory Bills Introduced in Senate Ethanol Exports Continue Strong Pace Ethanol Exports Continue Strong Pace Iowa's 2011 Harvest Will Be In Full Swing Soon Deficit Super Committee Meets Deficit Super Committee Meets Deficit Super Committee Meets U.S. Geological Survey Finds Surprising Results About Glyphosate U.S. Geological Survey Finds Surprising Results About Glyphosate AC21 Gets Three-Pronged Assignment from Ag Secretary AC21 Gets Three-Pronged Assignment from Ag Secretary AMS Pressured to Enforce COOL Law Now ICGA Wants Change In Harvest Weight Rule Road Safety Need Is Heightened At Harvest Students Learn From Crop Scouting Competition Harvesting Tips For Lodged Corn La Nina Returns La Nina Returns La Nina Returns President Addresses Congress and Nation President Addresses Congress and Nation Committee Approves Ag Appropriations Bill Committee Approves Ag Appropriations Bill July Beef, Pork Exports Continue to Surge CDL Ruling Favorable To Farmers Record Net Farm Income Expected In 2011 Booming Ag Economy Bringing Young People Back to the Farm Booming Ag Economy Bringing Young People Back to the Farm Lincoln Offers Better View of Welding Farm Bureau Switches Stance On Crop Insurance Ag Urban Xtreme Strength Summit Draws Crowd Weekly Iowa Corn, Soybean Ratings Down Slightly U.S. Farmers & Ranchers Alliance to Host Food Dialogues U.S. Farmers & Ranchers Alliance to Host Food Dialogues U.S. Farmers & Ranchers Alliance to Host Food Dialogues Congress Setting the Table for FTAs Congress Setting the Table for FTAs Report Outlines Food Insecurity in America Report Outlines Food Insecurity in America Proposal Would Tighten Child Labor Laws Expo To Feature Farm Wind Power Frustration with FTA Delay Grows in Other Countries Frustration with FTA Delay Grows in Other Countries Frustration with FTA Delay Grows in Other Countries Need Livestock For Success With Organic Crops Iowa Farm Bureau Debates Policy For 2012 Iowa Leaders Unite to Oppose E15 Ban USDA Rolls Out First Themed MyPlate Healthy Eating Message USDA Rolls Out First Themed MyPlate Healthy Eating Message National Beef Checkoff Looks at 25 Years of Successful Industry Information National Beef Checkoff Looks at 25 Years of Successful Industry Information Learn About Organic Sheep Production Farmers To Hold Beef Tasting Field Day Iowa Corn Growers Elect New Officers Your Are Invited To Corn Breeders Showcase USMEF Highlights Benefits of Passing FTAs USMEF Highlights Benefits of Passing FTAs USMEF Highlights Benefits of Passing FTAs High-Oleic Soybeans Hold Big Potential for U.S. Industry High-Oleic Soybeans Hold Big Potential for U.S. Industry Predictors Lower Some Crop Estimates Predictors Lower Some Crop Estimates New Stable Lien Provisions Signed By Illinois Governor Hobart Gives Welder Generator More Run Time Stalk Rot and Ear Rot Season Ahead? Congress Returns to Washington Congress Returns to Washington Congress Returns to Washington Gypsum Provides Potential Benefits Corn Yields Crippled In Southeast Iowa Proposed 2012 National Pork Board Budget Continues Consumer Focus Vilsack Calls American Agriculture Resilient Vilsack Calls American Agriculture Resilient Are Your Weeds Herbicide Resistant? What Are Chances For Early Frost In Iowa? The History of Labor Day The History of Labor Day Resistance to Antibiotics is Ancient Resistance to Antibiotics is Ancient Resistance to Antibiotics is Ancient Blount Unveils Cordless Oregon Chainsaw Corn Disease & Soil Management Clinics Evaluate Conservation Stewardship Program Iowa Corn Growers Set New Policies Webinar To Address Flood Recovery For Cropland Heat, Stress and Disease Affecting Iowa Corn NRCS Gets First-Hand Look at Dakota Flood Mitigation Efforts NRCS Gets First-Hand Look at Dakota Flood Mitigation Efforts Fall Soil Sampling For Soybean Cyst Nematode FSA Reminds Producers of Disaster Assistance Deadlines FSA Reminds Producers of Disaster Assistance Deadlines FSA Reminds Producers of Disaster Assistance Deadlines Farmers: Beware Of Tractor Overturn Risk Costs Increasing For 2012 Crop Production Crop Insurance Won't Cover All Flood Losses World Dairy Expo Offers Continuing Educational Credits Farmall B Legacy Expands with Four New Models Upon Return House Leadership Ready to Roll Upon Return House Leadership Ready to Roll Upon Return House Leadership Ready to Roll Labor Department Offers Child Labor Proposal Labor Department Offers Child Labor Proposal Labor Department Offers Child Labor Proposal Fendt Debuts New 900 Series Bayer Meets Grower Demand USDA Forecasting Big Increases in Net Farm, Net Cash Income for Year USDA Forecasting Big Increases in Net Farm, Net Cash Income for Year USDA Forecasting Big Increases in Net Farm, Net Cash Income for Year Iowa Biodiesel Tour Educates Policy Makers ISA Gets Large Conservation Innovation Grant Army Corps Updates Levee Restoration Progress on Mississippi River Army Corps Updates Levee Restoration Progress on Mississippi River Assistance Offered to Residents Affected by Hurricane Irene Assistance Offered to Residents Affected by Hurricane Irene Assistance Offered to Residents Affected by Hurricane Irene AAEP Issues Wild Horse Recommendations Farmers and Ranchers Appeal to Vilsack for Adequate Time to Respond Farmers and Ranchers Appeal to Vilsack for Adequate Time to Respond Farmers and Ranchers Appeal to Vilsack for Adequate Time to Respond Taking Care of Mud on the Planter ISA Exhibit: Ford Increases Soy Content in Foam ISA Exhibit: Ford Increases Soy Content in Foam ISA Exhibit: Ford Increases Soy Content in Foam Dow AgroSciences Names Its Newest Herbicide Offering Enlist Duo Dow AgroSciences Names Its Newest Herbicide Offering Enlist Duo Iowa Corn Crop Keeps Deteriorating Plan To Attend 'Farming For The Future' Checkoff Aims to Increase National Soybean Yield Average Checkoff Aims to Increase National Soybean Yield Average Beginning Farmer Field Day Will Cover Unique Topics Crop Condition Continues to Decline Crop Condition Continues to Decline Greek Yogurt Sales Rise In U.S. Dairy Aisles Some 4,000 Visitors See Deere Vertical Tillage Debut Some 4,000 Visitors See Deere Vertical Tillage Debut USDA Alerts Organic Industry of Fraudulent National Organic Program Certificate AGCO RoGators Get Update Fall Management Avoids Alfalfa Winter Injury What Can You Do To Protect Water Quality? CME Modifies Wheat Futures Contract CME Modifies Wheat Futures Contract Agriculture Secretary Vilsack Announces Smart Grid Agriculture Secretary Vilsack Announces Smart Grid Green Farmstead Partner Program Focus Is On Improving Water Quality High-Capacity SuperFlex Draper Head Designed for New Holland Combines High-Capacity SuperFlex Draper Head Designed for New Holland Combines New Holland Combines Feature Tier 4A Engines Using ECOBlue New Holland Combines Feature Tier 4A Engines Using ECOBlue Worth the Wait Worth the Wait Farm Futures Sees Acreage Increases For Corn, Soybeans and Wheat Farm Futures Sees Acreage Increases For Corn, Soybeans and Wheat Farm Futures Sees Acreage Increases For Corn, Soybeans and Wheat Path Forward Still Uncertain for FTAs Path Forward Still Uncertain for FTAs Path Forward Still Uncertain for FTAs North Carolina Ag Commissioner Reports on Damage North Carolina Ag Commissioner Reports on Damage Prairie Strips Planted In Row-Crop Fields Really Work Bird Flu Rears Its Ugly Head Again Farm Credit Publishes Community Impact Report Farm Credit Publishes Community Impact Report DuPont Announces U.S. Approval of New Insect Protection Farm Bill Hearing Focuses on Risk Management Farm Bill Hearing Focuses on Risk Management Soybean Checkoff Continues Conversations with EU on U.S. Soy Biodiesel Soybean Checkoff Continues Conversations with EU on U.S. Soy Biodiesel Governors Seek Flooding Answers From Corps Wind Power Has the Ability to Maintain Rural Communities Wind Power Has the Ability to Maintain Rural Communities IRFA Asks Candidate Perry To Oppose E15 Ban Case IH Grows the Patriot Sprayer Farm Aid is Helping Oklahoma with Hay Lift Farm Aid is Helping Oklahoma with Hay Lift Farm Aid is Helping Oklahoma with Hay Lift Beef Checkoff is Changing Perceptions of Beef Beef Checkoff is Changing Perceptions of Beef Saga of Low Yields Picks Up Steam Grain Bin Loan Questions Iowa Banking Industry Continues Strong Farmers Form In Response To Flooding Scout Fields For Signs of Corn Ear Rot NFGA and NAEGA Weigh in on AgriSure Viptera (UPDATED!) NFGA and NAEGA Weigh in on AgriSure Viptera (UPDATED!) Grassley Says Super Committee Needs to Rely on Expertise of Each Committee Grassley Says Super Committee Needs to Rely on Expertise of Each Committee Biotech Acceptance in China Impeding Growth of U.S. Corn Export Market Biotech Acceptance in China Impeding Growth of U.S. Corn Export Market Look Ahead: Manage 2012 Crop Margins Importance of High Speed Broadband to Jobs, Development in Rural America Importance of High Speed Broadband to Jobs, Development in Rural America EPA Issues Compliance Orders to Egg Farm, Cattle Feedlots EPA Issues Compliance Orders to Egg Farm, Cattle Feedlots Big Need To Improve Feed Efficiency In Swine Iowa Environmental Groups File Notice Of Intent To Sue EPA Making a Corporate Statement Farm Bill Hearing on Tap in Kansas Farm Bill Hearing on Tap in Kansas Farm Bill Hearing on Tap in Kansas Government-Wide Regulation Review Plan Announced Government-Wide Regulation Review Plan Announced Budget Process Could Have Big Impact on Writing of 2012 Farm Bill Budget Process Could Have Big Impact on Writing of 2012 Farm Bill Women Who Do The Grain Marketing Learn About Cover Crop Management Proposed Property Tax Equalization Orders Issued Iowa Property Tax Increase Slows Down Changes in Crop Acres Since Freedom to Farm Changes in Crop Acres Since Freedom to Farm Farm Bureau Supports LightSquared Goal Farm Bureau Supports LightSquared Goal Field Day Focus Is Drainage Water Quality Corn & Soybean Discoveries At Dordt Farm Farm Bureau Summer Policy Conference World Dairy Expo Dairy Product Contest Announces Grand Champion Winners EPA Science Advisory Board Releases Nitrogen Report EPA Science Advisory Board Releases Nitrogen Report Bunge Responds to Suit Bunge Responds to Suit Chinese Trade Delegation Getting Firsthand Look at U.S. Corn Chinese Trade Delegation Getting Firsthand Look at U.S. Corn Corn and Soybean Conditions Continue Slight Decline Corn and Soybean Conditions Continue Slight Decline Frustration Growing as FTAs Remain Undone Frustration Growing as FTAs Remain Undone Iowa Hereford Tour Set For Southeast Iowa Dryness Continues To Hurt Iowa Corn, Soybeans USDA Weather Assumptions Undermining Forecasts USDA Weather Assumptions Undermining Forecasts Class III Sets Record High In July Bestway Offering New Transport Hitch Governor's Charity Steer Show Raises $106,700 Canadian-Colombian Free Trade Agreement In Effect Canadian-Colombian Free Trade Agreement In Effect Ag Secretary & Ag Chair Highlight Importance of Ag Research Ag Secretary & Ag Chair Highlight Importance of Ag Research Huge Placements of Cattle on Feed in July Huge Placements of Cattle on Feed in July Huge Placements of Cattle on Feed in July More Dollars Released for Broadband Service More Dollars Released for Broadband Service Corn Aphids Are Exploding In Iowa USSEC Animal Utilization Stakeholders Meeting Takes Place in Seattle USSEC Animal Utilization Stakeholders Meeting Takes Place in Seattle Checkoff Teams with Sodexo to Promote Pork Don't Confuse Goss's Wilt With Other Corn Diseases Reason for Daily Trading Limit Change Doesn't Ring True for NCGA Reason for Daily Trading Limit Change Doesn't Ring True for NCGA Liberty Link Soybeans Approved in Argentina PowerSharp System Keeps Chainsaw in Action Syngenta Files Suit Against Bunge Syngenta Files Suit Against Bunge Vilsack Holds Rural Forum at Iowa State Fair Vilsack Holds Rural Forum at Iowa State Fair Dow AgroSciences Submits for Approval First Ever Three-Gene Herbicide-Tolerant Soybean Growth Energy Disputes Auto Industry Claims Growth Energy Disputes Auto Industry Claims Study Group Looking at Renewables Study Group Looking at Renewables To See Refuge-In-A-Bag In The Field Is To Understand It Practical Farmers Invite You To Field Days 25X'25 Favors President's Biofuels Plan 25X'25 Favors President's Biofuels Plan Strange Pollination Patterns Showing up in Corn Fields Trichomonaisis Risk Could Increase With Western Drought Trichomonaisis Risk Could Increase With Western Drought Dairy Draft Legislation Discussed Dairy Draft Legislation Discussed Easter Seals Helping Iowa Farmers For 25 Years Challenger Launches MT500D High Horsepower Tractor Series FSA Supports Youth in Agriculture ISU's Taylor Lowers His Corn Yield Forecast New Bean Leaf Beetle Threshold Calculator Can Aphids Attack Corn? Changing Market Impacts Latest Biotech Trait Changing Market Impacts Latest Biotech Trait Ag Lenders Survey Results Revealed Ag Lenders Survey Results Revealed Biotech Acres Continue to Grow Globally Biotech Acres Continue to Grow Globally Scout Soybean Fields Now For White Mold Community Life & Neighboring In Iowa Manure Management & Runoff Control Demonstration Sunflower Drill Simple, Easy to Operate and Fast RFA Responds to President RFA Responds to President Your National Beef Checkoff: 25 Years and Counting Your National Beef Checkoff: 25 Years and Counting Additional Rural Investments Announced Additional Rural Investments Announced Additional Rural Investments Announced Obama Blames Congress in Farm Tour Obama Blames Congress in Farm Tour Ethanol Compromise Unlikely to be Salvaged Ethanol Compromise Unlikely to be Salvaged NCBA's Woodall No Longer Confident Congress Will Pass Pending FTAs NCBA's Woodall No Longer Confident Congress Will Pass Pending FTAs NCBA's Woodall No Longer Confident Congress Will Pass Pending FTAs Regaining Important Beef Markets Requires Government Re-Engagement Regaining Important Beef Markets Requires Government Re-Engagement Regaining Important Beef Markets Requires Government Re-Engagement Butterfly Mower Can Cut 30 Acres Per Hour Dairy Stabilization Program Not Active USDA Official Highlights Renewable Fuel Choices for Missouri Drivers USDA Official Highlights Renewable Fuel Choices for Missouri Drivers UI Athletics, Iowa Farm Bureau Announce Partnership Explore The Seven Wonders Of Corn Vilsack Announces Renewable Energy Funding Vilsack Announces Renewable Energy Funding Vilsack Announces Renewable Energy Funding Obama Opens White House Rural Economic Forum Obama Opens White House Rural Economic Forum Obama Says Biofuels Should Leave No Stone Unturned Obama Says Biofuels Should Leave No Stone Unturned What to Know About Installing a Wind Energy System on Your Farm What to Know About Installing a Wind Energy System on Your Farm Lack Of Rain Is Hurting Iowa Crops Senator Expects Pending Trade Deals Could Be Approved Soon Senator Expects Pending Trade Deals Could Be Approved Soon Survey Shows 66% Of Iowa Farms Have Internet Access Iowa Cattlemen's Association Has New Contest Flooded Farmers Voice Concerns About Recovery Ag Sciences Key to U.S. Economic Growth Work Begins On Iowa's New Local Food and Farm Initiative CREP Wetland Tour In Northeast Iowa Commercial Manure Applicator Certification Training Pork Checkoff Study: PRRS Costs Industry $641 Million Annually USDA Announces Historic School Nutrition Improvements as Children Return to School USDA Announces Historic School Nutrition Improvements as Children Return to School Extra-Density Baler Packs More Mass In Same Space President Announces New Rural Economic Programs President Announces New Rural Economic Programs Farm Progress Exclusive: Ag Secretary Discusses Rural Council ASA Listens To Missouri River Farmers' Concerns ASA Listens To Missouri River Farmers' Concerns USDA Predicts Iowa Corn Yield To Top Last Year Super Bull Owner Is 'Three-Peat' At Iowa State Fair CWT Assists with 2.9 Million Pounds of Cheese Export Sales RFA Comments on EPA Proposals RFA Comments on EPA Proposals Obama Makes Campaign Start in Minnesota Obama Makes Campaign Start in Minnesota Vilsack Says Rural Tour and Forum Provide Opportunities 25x'25 Issues Call to Action ILF August Webinar Focuses On 'Losing Ground' Goss's Wilt Outbreak Highlights Need for Tolerant Hybrids New Tool Can Help You Find Markets Conservation Announcement Supports Wildlife Habitat Restoration Pasture Plant Key to Improving Ruminant Health Horror Stories are Anecdotal So Far How Hot Weather Trimmed 2011 Corn Yield 'Refuge In Bag' Corn Is Controlling Rootworms 'America Needs Farmers' Activities At State Fair August 2011 Corn Yield Forecast Too Optimistic? Rural Economic Growth, Jobs Focus Of Council Forum Rural Economic Growth, Jobs Focus Of Council Forum Challenges Ahead for Super Committee Iowa RFA Puts Positive Spin for Politial Reporters Grassley: Exempt Farmers From Proposed Trucking Regulations Savings Incentive Program For Beginning Farmers Upcoming PFI Field Days Feature Organic Farming Most Pastures Are In Extreme Ratings Most Pastures Are In Extreme Ratings Grants Made for Bioenergy Projects Crop Insurance & Flood Damaged Crops Agco's 90-Foot White Planter Rolls On Tracks Help Feed Rural American Families Brazil's Dairy Sector Seeks a Comeback Variety of Programs Featured In Rural Life Tent DOT Promises No New Ag Related Regulations DOT Promises No New Ag Related Regulations Nine of Twelve Named to Debt-Reduction Super Committee Nine of Twelve Named to Debt-Reduction Super Committee AMI Foundation Reaffirms Meat's Role in Healthy, Balanced Diet Congressional Research Service Releases Report on Agricultural Trade Trends Minority Farmer Advisory Committee to Hold First Meeting Dieselcraft Offers Water Detection Tool Check Out Seed Plots to Learn More Leopold Center Reports On Seven Completed Projects ISA Environmental Program Receives Award Iowa Crop Conditions Dip After Hot, Dry Week Get An Update On Precision Ag & Strip-till State Fair Highlights Are Broadcast Nightly Iowa Beef Cattle Facility Tours In August Iowa Farmer Honored By U.S. Grains Council Unique Displays In Ag Building At State Fair Be Sure To See 'Avenue of Breeds' At State Fair ISU Extension Offers Ag Drainage School Kinze Adds Planting to Autonomous System Cattle Handling Demos Twice Daily AGCO's New Equipment Launch Largest Ever Rule Proposed For Improving Livestock Traceability Rule Proposed For Improving Livestock Traceability Administration Announces Program to Save Fuel Costs, Reduce Foreign Oil Dependence National Forests, Grasslands Continue Positively Impacting U.S. Economy Will Goss's Wilt Be 'Disease of the Year' Ag Secretary Says U.S. Agriculture Has Many Success Stories Glyphosate-Resistant Weeds Are Huge Challenge Visit Food & Farming Exhibit At State Fair U of I Offers Up Fun, Information Rural America to Benefit from USDA-EPA Partnership Beef Checkoff Celebrates 25 Years Beef Checkoff Celebrates 25 Years New Plan to Bring Wireless Broadband to Rural America Unveiled New Holland Boosts Raking Efficiency CRP Modified; Other Programs Helping Disaster Impacted Producers Syngenta Receives Japanese and Mexican Import Approvals for Corn Trait Stack Several Priorities of Next Farm Bill Outlined New Obstacles Are in the Way of River Upgrades Iowa State Fair Unveils New Ag Activities Debt Deal Will Impact Farm Bill Topcon Acquires SGIS Agricultural Software from AGCO Watch Equipment Work in the Field Don't Stop Now, Scout For Corn Diseases Pork Checkoff Appoints Two New Vice Presidents Late-Season Corn Field Checks Could Prove Interesting Merrigan Kicks Off National Farmers Market Week Farm Storage Facility Loans Available Apply An Insecticide-Fungicide Tank Mix On Soybeans? ISU Field Days Set For Southwest & Southeast Iowa Some Corn In Iowa Is Already Denting Several Issues Left Hanging by Debt Debate Future of Farm Policy Depends on Budget Negotiations Iowan Honored As Midwest 'Farm Mom Of The Year' How To Terminate A Farm Lease Good Reasons For Written Lease Greenhorn Grazing Series Continues in Southwest Iowa Climate Change Projections Simulated to Understand Impact of Higher CO2 Levels Soybean Checkoff Dollars Being Invested to Build Demand Next Farm Bill Will Have Less Money Proposed Regulations from FMCSA Concern Senators Agriculture Secretary Says Safe Food is a National Priority Survey Reveals Increase In Cattle Hoop Barns Valley Irrigation Upgrades GPS Product Line Kinze Unveils New Grain Cart Center for Rural Affairs Learns of Challenges Facing Latino Farmers, Ranchers Dairy Producers Reject Status Quo Can Canola Be A 'Third Crop' For Iowa? Debt Compromise Passed and Signed Debt Compromise Passed and Signed Corn and Soybean Conditions Hurt by Heat Paperwork Being Streamlined by FSA July Heat Took Toll On 2011 Iowa Corn Unique Use For Corn: Extracting Iron From Ore 'Mob Grazing' Tours Show New Techniques Iowa Stored Wind Energy Project Ends State Fair To Host Charity Steer Show Precision Ag & Strip-till Field Day At ISU Farmland Owners Urged To Attend Workshop Kinze Unveils Autonomous Row Crop Technology Farmers and Ranchers Begin To Raise Their Voices Fungicides Don't Control Every Disease Club Car Upgrades Utility Vehicle Crop Insurance a Key Part of the Farm Safety Net Missouri River Is Forecast To Be Back In Its Banks By October Debt Deal Passed by House NCBA's Cattlemen to Cattlemen Returns with Special on Trade NCBA's Cattlemen to Cattlemen Returns with Special on Trade Iowa State Fair Is Just 9 Days Away Work Continues on Funding Mississippi River Improvements Milk Producers Continue to Enroll in New National Dairy FARM Program to Assure Consumers Sugar Policy is Being Promoted at Sweetener Symposium New Pallet Fork from Danuser IRFA Urges Presidential Candidates to Oppose E15 Ban Beef Industry Long Range Plan Influences Summer Conference Deliberations Beef Industry Long Range Plan Influences Summer Conference Deliberations Debt Agreement Announced by President Debt Agreement Announced by President Possible CDL Requirements Worry NFU Heat Wave Has Killed Up To 4,000 Iowa Cattle Long Silks Are Seen, What Does It Mean? The Climb Continues for Retail Beef Prices Giant Spools Boost Haying Efficiency FSA Offers Emergency Conservation Help Iowan Elected To NCGA Governing Board Food & Farming Celebration At Iowa State Fair Drought Stress Favors Grasshoppers And Spider Mites Interior Bill Contains Measures to Limit EPA Power Flexible Leases Share Risks & Profits Polaris Offers New RZR Congress Reviews Research Programs, Specialty Crops USDA Makes Funds Available for Credit Needs Vilsack Addresses National FFA Leaders about New Opportunities New Farm Estate Planning Book By Harl ISA Reviews 2011 Legislative Session Corn Caucus Project Launched Asia Pizza Demand Boosts U.S. Cheese Exports Lower Complaint Filing Fees For Ag Shippers Secretary Vilsack Announces Biomass Production Projects Sherman Holds White House Rural Roundtable with Tennessee Producers Chairman Lucas Provides Insight at Subcommittee Hearing White House Rural Champions Of Change Are ISU Extension Partners Corn Growers Announce Election Results Cattle Help Restore Native Iowa Prairie Iowa Food & Family Project Gets Off To Good Start Tractor Rebuilt By ISU Students To Be Sold At Auction Iowa Cattlemen's Association Names New CEO Consumers Buying More Chicken House and Senate Working in Different Ways to Get Debt Deal Time is Short for Passage of Ethanol Compromise Japanese Beetle Activity Rising In Iowa Timely and Careful Stockpiling Of Fescue Pasture Groups Consider Direction of Domestic Energy Development BioPreferred Final Rule Designates Additional 14 Biobased Categories Cattle Losses Rising Iowa Corn Looks Good Despite Heat Wave University of Illinois Studies Option to Replace Direct Payments Time is Growing Short To Reach a Debt Agreement Time is Growing Short To Reach a Debt Agreement GOP Senators Pledge Support of TAA GOP Senators Pledge Support of TAA Begin Scouting Soybeans For Signs Of SDS Is Foliar Fertilization Useful To Supplement Pre-plant Fertilization? National FFA Receives Donation from Microsoft Global Milk Consumption Will Soar This Decade Cleaner Engine Oil Through a Centrifuge Koch Agronomic Services Acquires Agrotain International Sweeping Changes Will Happen in Next Farm Bill Debt Talks Being Driven by Taxes Debt Talks Being Driven by Taxes Debt Talks Being Driven by Taxes Debt Talks Being Driven by Taxes Johanns Disappointed in Vote Killing Cut, Cap and Balance Legislation Iowa Department Of Agriculture Budget Cuts Concern Northey Aridity Index Show Weather Impact On Corn Careful Crafting Needed for CFTC Rules Several Programs Receiving USDA Funding Tour Promises Education for Cattlemen Odd Things Happen in Weird Crop Years Yetter Knife Improvements Boost Efficiency Does DCP Contract Need To Be Revised? Document And Report Cattle Death Losses From Heat Will It Pay To Apply Foliar Fungicide On Corn? Storm Damage Is Opportunity For Cover Crops Syngenta Launches Vibrance to Fight Rhizoctonia in Cereals Unresolved Budget Issue Forces Obama to Re-Think Position World Food Prize Youth Programs Receive $400,000 Gift White House Not Sending FTAs to Congress Before August Recess When Should You Spray Fungicide On Soybeans? Signup Deadline Set For Iowa Watershed Projects SNAP Focus of Ag Subcommittee Hearing USDA Announces Proposed Rule USDA Announces Proposed Rule Food Safety Act Threatens Farmers Food Safety Act Threatens Farmers Yield Will Be Key For 2011 Corn Crop Farmland Owners Computer Workshops Scheduled Preparing for the Next Farm Bill More Debt Ceiling Solutions Offered How Ag Bills Fared In 2011 Legislature Retailers Expanding to Serve Underserved Communities Are Your Corn Or Soybeans Looking Stressed? NFU Board of Directors Responds with Own Resolution to Dairy Proposal Sunco Introduces New Trash Discs Costly, Job Stifling Overregulation Still Top Concern in Rural America Costly, Job Stifling Overregulation Still Top Concern in Rural America Ag Coalition Urging Debt Action by House and Senate Heat Is Helping Iowa Crop Mature Rapidly Drake To Host Conference On Sustainable Land Ownership ICGA Participates In Capitol Hill Visits Healthy Communities A Priority For Iowa Farm Families Iowan To Help Steer Future U.S. Food & Ag Policy Push Back the Night TAA Remains Stumbling Block for Trade Agreements TAA Remains Stumbling Block for Trade Agreements Youth Learn To Aim For Their Own Adventures Dodd-Frank Wall Street Act Needs Tweaking Additional E.Coli Testing Gains Backing Additional E.Coli Testing Gains Backing 2011 Iowa State Fair Will Have New Ag Activities Advice For Managing Glyphosate Failures 2012 Farm Progress Hay Expo Location Announced 2012 Farm Progress Hay Expo Location Announced 2012 Farm Progress Hay Expo Location Announced Struggle Between Senate Leaders Stalls Legislation USDA's Numbers Questioned by AFBF Old Plan Revitalized to Raise Debt Ceiling La Nina Shifts Into Neutral, What's Ahead? Corn Leaf Diseases, Soybean Stem Diseases Prevalent Workforce Study on AVMA Priority List Energy Programs Face Federal Cuts NMPF Says IDFA Claims on Proposed Dairy Legislation Not Fact-Based Spray A Fungicide On Downed Corn? USDA Commits to Stand by Producers Affected by Severe Weather, Natural Disasters Food Bank Support Shows 'We Care' How Much Nitrogen is Left in Your Corn's Tank? How Long Can Corn Crop Withstand Heat Wave? Farm Programs Need to Be More Responsive to Modern Agriculture USDA Accepts 45,000 Iowa Acres into CRP Start Scouting For Soybean Aphids Branstad Suggests Exit From River Association Wind Damaged Corn Already Looking Better Update Iowa Hay & Straw Directory Listings Biodiesel Industry Applauds Job-Creating Tax Legislation Oxbo Introduces Self-Propelled Merger Leasing Issues & Cropland Rental Rates Crop Insurance Coverage For Wind Damage National Shortage of Food Animal Veterinarians Requires Solutions National Shortage of Food Animal Veterinarians Requires Solutions Just Enough Time for N NFU Urges Separation of Policy Organizations and Beef Checkoff Program NFU Urges Separation of Policy Organizations and Beef Checkoff Program Congress Must Control Regulations USMEF Still Helping Japan Recovery USMEF Still Helping Japan Recovery Senate Hearing on Rural Job Growth Scheduled Coalition Supports Clean Water Federalism Act McConnell Offers Debt Limit Plan Miller Electric Launches Rebate Program Dairy, Beef Cow Productivity Increases Benefit Environment Iowa Congressmen Call For Flood Hearings Farmers Can Use Data For Tractor Selection Alltech Debuts New Website Anthem Could Strengthen FMC's role in Herbicide Market More Iowa Volunteers Working With Ugandan Farmers Learn About Green Farmstead Partner Program National Biodiesel Board Happy With EPA Proposal North American Manure Expo July 20 Severe Storms, High Winds Flatten Iowa Corn Workshop On Value Added Producer Grants Cattle Care Programs Working Cattle Care Programs Working Results of Farm to School Team Visits Announced Lameness Undermines Dairy Herd Management Will Blown-Down Corn Recover? Iowa Learning Farms Hosts Upcoming Field Days Congressman Sends Message to Secretary Vilsack Congressman Sends Message to Secretary Vilsack School Meals Highlighted at Meeting Regulations by Presidents Need to Be Reined In National Border Security Subject of Hearing National Border Security Subject of Hearing Grain Storage Takes On New Look Iowa A Step Closer To Cellulosic Ethanol Production New International Convenience Products? New International Convenience Products? President's Town Hall Remarks Questioned in Letter Unique Tour Has Farm Show Start Unique Tour Has Farm Show Start USDA Grants Branstad's Request For Disaster Designation Ethanol Deal is Best the Industry Could Get Apply Now For Value-Added Ag Grants Reality of Small Corn Sets In Mondak Named ANR Extension Assistant Director Progress on Free Trade Agreement Codex Stalls Decision On Ractopamine Shield Agriculture Equipment Can Supply Belts Sign-up Now For Soil Nutrient Benchmarking Watch For Early Signs Of SDS In Beans Iowans Weigh-In On Ethanol Subsidy Deal Energy Department to Support Cellulosic Ethanol Plant Reaction Continues to Pour in on Ethanol Agreement It's A Hard Conversation To Start Funds Available For Water Quality And Flood Prevention Projects NPPC Worried About Possible Federal Legislation Regulating Egg Production CWT Assists with 2.5 Million Pounds of Cheese Export Sales Introduction of New Legislation Brings Hope for Biodiesel Fundamental Shift In Corn Market Win a Boomer Tractor for Five Years How Ethanol Saves Iowa Motorists Money VEETC and Tariff Would Be Eliminated By Ethanol Deal Ag Land Values Not In True Bubble Ag Land Values Not In True Bubble Iowa Corn Is Growing Fast, Ready To Tassel U.S. and Mexico Sign Trucking Agreement U.S. and Mexico Sign Trucking Agreement Industry Won't Let Ethanol Continue to be Scapegoat Central Iowa Will Get Next Generation Ethanol Plant House Interior and Environmental Budgets Released House Interior and Environmental Budgets Released Conditions Decent for Corn and Soybeans National Pork Board Begins Building 2012 Plan and Budget Trimble Offers New High-Accuracy Correction Service Leasing Firm's Survey Shows Farmland Rent Has Really Jumped House Committee Will Tackle FTA House Committee Will Tackle FTA Increase Weed Control, Decrease Herbicide Use Deadline is Approaching to Sign-up for SURE How To Put A Face On Your Farm For Soybean Growers, It's Eyes On The Field Historic Pony Event Coming To Iowa Growers Urged To Vote In Corn Checkoff Elections Need Help Applying For Value-Added Ag Grants? Purdue Economist Says Higher Commodity Prices Could Be 'The New Normal' Soybean Aphid Field Guide Now Available USCA Wants Beef Checkoff Changes Made USCA Wants Beef Checkoff Changes Made Bayer CropScience Settles Biotech Rice Litigation RBOG Applications Are Due Aug. 1 Some Prevented Planting Rules Changed Western Bean Cutworm Scouting Update Acreage Sets Stage For Big 2011 Corn Crop Agricultural Labor Survey to Resume Agricultural Labor Survey to Resume A-Teams to Discuss Council Programs, Direction at Annual Meeting Pork's Burger Alternative Handler 190 Ready to Weld Aluminum Group Alleges Iowa Hogs Mistreated Goss Wilt Found Already In West Central Iowa Agriculture Secretary Meets Colorado Business Leaders to Discuss Economic Growth and Job Creation Agriculture Secretary Vilsack Announces Economic Development Funding Senate Recess No Longer Scheduled Federal-Mogul Drops the Brushes Be On Guard For Foliar Diseases Iowa Growers Respond to USDA Acreage Report New Iowa E15 Incentive Begins July 1 Legislative Session Finally Wraps Up Iowa Farm Bureau Applauds Passage Of Legislation Budget Talks Likely to Impact Rewrite of Farm Bill How USDA Makes Crop Acreage Estimates Tips For Adding Hail Insurance Coverage Sno-Pro Offers Alternative to Bucket Plowing New Jersey Family To Experience Iowa Farm Life Search For New Leopold Center Chief Begins Global Dairy Organizations Unite to Advance Research Goals Republican Boycott Forces Cancellation of Mock Markup Good Silage Advice Good Silage Advice Acreage in Four States Being Re-Collected Deere Retools Midsize Players New Idea for Moving Forward with Deficit Reduction Agreement Hispanic Population Continues To Rise In Iowa Take Steps To Avoid Heat Stress In Cattle Help For Producers Applying For Value-Added Grants Roberts Introduces Transportation Bill Learn New Pasture Management, Fencing Techniques Iowa 4-H'ers Earn 2011 State 4-H Project Awards Budgets Hitting Hard at Ag Education and Research Budgets Hitting Hard at Ag Education and Research Sharpen Your Feed Efficiency Sharpen Your Feed Efficiency Women Farmland Owners Share Information Look For Cyst Nematode On Soybean Roots What Bill Northey Learned On Trade Mission Breakthrough Could Move Trade Deals Breakthrough Could Move Trade Deals Grant Will Help Farmers Deal With Changes to Climates Iowa Crops Need Sunshine And Heat EPA Announces E15 Labeling Senate Willl Mock Markup FTAs Several Points of View on Livestock Presented Several Points of View on Livestock Presented Food Safe Families Campaign to Reduce Foodborne Illness Harvesting And Using Oats For Forage DoMor Has New Series of Grading Gear What Do Producers Think About the Checkoff? What Do Producers Think About the Checkoff? Supreme Court To Review California Law Regarding Non-Ambulatory Livestock Extreme Weather Impacting Iowa Soybeans Corn Yield Contest Deadline Extended Adding Up Weather Costs Grassley Bill Would Boost U.S-Produced Biodiesel Corn Rootworm Egg Hatch Occurring New FAO Head Makes Reform Pledge Dow AgroSciences Ames Field Research Station Expands, Relocates Waterways Will Need Post-Flood Attention Bringing Back a Biotech Board Hog Inventory Rises Scouting Reveals Mixture Of Caterpillars In Corn USDA Agencies Ready To Assist In Flood Recovery Rural Areas Need Faster Web Service Scout for Corn Diseases and Take Effective Control Measures Two Important Deadlines Fast Approaching New Red Weeder TD Model for Direct Weeding Can't Use Flood Damaged Grain For Food Or Feed Flooded Farmers Reassured By USDA Risk Management Agency Yellow Corn Leaves Emerge From Twisted Whorls Industry Group Asks Congress to Protect GPS Network Farm Payment Database Released Variety of Weather Conditions Continue to Plague U.S. Flooding Raises Crop Insurance Questions Iowan Elected NCGA First Vice President Why Conservation Planning Is Important New Kuhn Fertilizer Spreader Setting Cropland Cash Leases For 2012 Oil from Strategic Petroleum Reserve Released Ag Committee Calls on USDA to Streamline Programs Ag Committee Calls on USDA to Streamline Programs Dust, Pesticides and Water Addressed at Symposium Watch Fields For Glyphosate-Resistant Weeds Iowa Cattle Farmer Sees Potential In South Korean Market Buhler Industries Enters Tillage Market 2012 RFS Proposal Released FTA Negotiations Are Up Against the Clock FTA Negotiations Are Up Against the Clock Media Has It Wrong About Ethanol And Iowa Caucuses Amvac, Monsanto Announce Crop Protection Collaboration Iowa Farmer-to-Farmer Program Is Bridging The Gap For Women Kind Takes a Look at Senate Ethanol Votes from Other Side of the Hill Use Checklists To Ensure Worker Protection Compliance Learn How A High Tunnel Could Work For You World Food Prize Honors Former Presidents of Ghana, Brazil New Farm Programs Need to Work Together Beef Board Budget Dips More than 20% in Five Years Beef Board Budget Dips More than 20% in Five Years Running For Sustainable Ag & Healthy Food Tips For Sidedressing Nitrogen For Corn Weld Something Cool, Win Something Cool Rain Is Making Grain In Iowa This Year Farmers Voice Opinions On Missouri River Flooding Co-Op To Buy Biodiesel Facility At Algona Budget Negotiations Continue Budget Negotiations Continue New CAST Paper Examines GE Animal Regulations Ethanol Amendment Unlikely to Reach President's Desk USDA Rewards States for SNAP Administration Excellence Bogs Footwear Caters to Farmers and Ranchers ICGA Raps Senate Vote Targeting Ethanol Corn Refuge and Import Status Clarified Big Ag Budget Cuts Made By House Early Season Management Of Bean Leaf Beetles Seed Corn Industry Announces New Shifts Bobcat Offers Tread Design Choices Livestock Disaster Programs Available Emergency Use Of CRP Granted For Six Iowa Counties Too Early To Spray Fungicide On Corn? Two-Cylinder Club To Hold Expo At Waterloo House Fires Shotgun at Ag Programs Ethanol Votes Draw Plenty of Reaction Corn Availability Concerns Pork Producers Attend A Farmland Leasing Workshop Near You Financial Management With High Prices Recycled Advertising Handy Around Farm More Bushels, Less Inputs Happy Cows? Not so Fast Tools Help Measure Corn Nitrogen Status Ethanol Credit Dies in New Senate Vote U.S. Senate Isn't Done with Ethanol Yet Aussie Cattle Export Ban Impacts Local Markets Aussie Cattle Export Ban Impacts Local Markets Prevented Planting, Flood Rules Clarified Euro E. Coli Outbreak to Have Widespread Ramifications Euro E. Coli Outbreak to Have Widespread Ramifications How To Estimate Nitrogen Losses Apply Additional N To Corn After Wet Conditions? Biodiesel Group Works to Tell Story to Consumers Power MIG Line Now Includes 180 Dual When a Tax Credit is a Tax Increase When a Tax Credit is a Tax Increase Iowa Corn, Soybeans Generally In Good Shape Popular Local Foods Directory Updated Ag Appropriations Push Causes Call to Action Workshops Planned For Medium-Sized CAFOs Yellow Corn Plants Showing Up In Many Fields ISU Dairy Farm To Celebrate Dairy Month Plan Now For Fall Crop Storage Meeting the Global Food Challenge Tips For Recovering From Disasters Shell Rotella Offers Engine Warranty Program Register For The ISU Crop Management Clinic Effort to Cut Off Ethanol Support Fails Effort to Cut Off Ethanol Support Fails Senator Coburn Considers Ethanol Bad Economic Policy Ag Appropriations Bill Questioned by Administration, Ag Committee Opinions of GIPSA Rule Continue to Vary Opinions of GIPSA Rule Continue to Vary USDA Crucial to Electric Grid Expansion Prevented Planting and Failed Acreage NCGA President Believes We Can Produce A Record Crop, Despite Weather Concerns Major Levee Break on Missouri River Grants Will Help Rural Development, Conservation Sample Now For Nematodes That Feed On Corn Strip-Till To Be Featured At ILF Field Days Fewer Test Plots No Excuse for Less Scouting Checking For Conservation Compliance 'Damping Off' Prevalent In Some Corn Fields Evaluate Recent Hail Damage On Corn Missouri River Flooding Will Impact Iowa Corn, Soybean Acres President Establishes Rural Council Putting Together Flexible Cash Farm Leases Stalk Borer Scouting Dates For 2011 Farmer Age Increasing Cash Rents Increased Sharply In 2011 Cost of America's Marketbasket Rising Cost of America's Marketbasket Rising ISU Announces Monsanto Chair In Soybean Breeding Mustang RT Series Trackloaders for 2011 Hay Prices Are Headed Higher How To Manage Heat Stress In Cattle Prepare For Flooding, Recovery Plant Pests and Diseases Targeted CDC's Food Safety Report Card Flunks Salmonella National Pork Board Officers Elected Farm Service Agency County Committee Nomination Period Begins June 15 Less Than One Month To File FSA Acreage Reports ESCO Offers Wheel Heat Warning Label 2011 Farm Progress Show Adds Country Music Star Rodney Atkins Concert 2011 Farm Progress Show Adds Country Music Star Rodney Atkins Concert Yamaha Upgrades Grizzly Report Released Addressing Food Productivity Gap Report Released Addressing Food Productivity Gap Crop Planting, Especially Soybeans, Lags Behind Strawberry Season Entering Full Swing Dow AgroSciences Announces Prairie Brand Seed Purchase PorkBridge Educational Series Returns Nominate Someone For County FSA Committee New Kuhn Power Merger for Hay Fields Agco Parts Offers Parts 'Rewards' Program Salute To Iowa's Dairy, Turkey Farmers Continue To Scout Emerged Corn, Soybeans Wet Weather Raises Concern For N Losses Workshops Provide Environmental Issues Update Four New Bee Viruses Found Pork Board Unveiling Carbon Footprint Calculator Debt Ceiling Issue is Uphill Battle Debt Ceiling Issue is Uphill Battle Iowa Corn, Beans 80% Good To Excellent Lingering La Nina Will Lower 2011 Corn Yield New Line of Sub-Compacts from John Deere Livestock Theft And Vandalism: Are You A Target? Research Opens Door for More Options in Sheep Breeding Sukup Offers Accessory for Clearing Bin Clumps Lack of Proper Controls from FSA Caused Problems with Energy Program Soybean Farmers to Get Firsthand Look at Checkoff in Action Buying Power Varies Among Economic Groups Buying Power Varies Among Economic Groups Row Crop Farmer Testifies on Important Components Needed in 2012 Farm Bill It's Time To Control Multiflora Rose Iowa Deputy Secretary Of Agriculture Resigns Rhino Expands Flex-Wing Mower Line Budget is Big Challenge for Farm Bill Dairy Reform Can't Wait for Farm Bill To Replant or Not to Replant, That is the Question! Could Dairy Proteins be Food Package Resource John Deere Financial Announces New Name For Farm Plan Michelin Extends Tire Line for Skid Steers Start Scouting Soybeans For 'Damping Off' ISU Research Farm Field Days 2011 World Pork Expo Only A Few Days Away Odds Favor Adding Crop-Hail Insurance Historical Corn Seasonal Price Trends USDA Releases New Icon to Replace MyPyramid Food Industry Applauds New Dietary Icon MyPlate Food Industry Applauds New Dietary Icon MyPlate Mitas Expands Row-Crop Tractor Tire Line Farmers Warned: Prepare For Flooding Now Flooding Concerns Prompt Action Along Missouri River AHA Accepts Poultry Stunning Method E15 Will Receive Attention at NASCAR Races Corn Coalition Heads to Washington Supreme Court Denies Review on EPA Decision Water Quality Is Huge Issue For Iowa Agriculture Mini-Bulk Pesticide Container Recycling Program Food Pyramid Ends Life Today Leica Updates Ag Guidance Products Livestock Groups Back House Spending Bill Livestock Groups Back House Spending Bill More than 50 Groups Oppose Conservation Cuts 4-H'ers Use GIS On iPhones To Map Trees Iowa Soybean Planting Still Not Quite Done 12 Students Chosen For Agricultural Trip To China Soggy Fields Now Create New Dilemmas Now Is Time To Evaluate Grass Waterways New Extension Fisheries, Aquaculture Specialist At Iowa State Cattle Performance Improved In Mono-slope Facilities There is a Top Limit on Planting Speed! 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Corn Flea Beetles Are Active In Corn Time To Pull Samples For Late Spring Soil Nitrate Test You Can 'Row' The Corn, Walk The Fields Selling Your Crop Insurance Bushels Iowa FFA Chapters To Split $25,000 WTO Makes Ruling on COOL WTO Makes Ruling on COOL Ethanol Saving Travelers Millions this Holiday Weekend Checkoff Resources Help Producers Share Their Story Senate Ag Committee Conducts First Farm Bill Hearing Do You Need To Add Crop Hail Coverage? 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Brown Turns to Biodiesel Should Daily Price Limits On Corn Futures Trading Be Raised? New Process Could Improve Ethanol Economics Sign-up Deadline Approaches for DCP, ACRE U.S. Beef, Pork in Japan Relief Effort Can I Opt Out Of ACRE For 2011? Gehl Launches Compact Track Loaders GOP Presidential Ticket Firms Up Ignite Herbicide Label Change Provides Greater Value New Kuhn Drum Mower How Souped Up Is Your Planter? Race Car Helps Promote Biofuels FCC Warned over GPS Signal Worries Iowa Farm Mom Chosen As Regional Winner Farmers Urged To Contact Iowa Lawmakers Treasure Trove of State Facts Online Farm Women Can Sign-Up For Annie's Project Should You Price 2011 Corn Now? Black Cutworms Showing Up In Iowa Syngenta To Invest In New Genetics Research Facility Iowa Farm Custom Rates For 2011 Does Everyone Really Need Crop Insurance? How Projected Prices Work With Crop Insurance New Bill Targets Unfair Livestock Marketing Practices New Bill Targets Unfair Livestock Marketing Practices America's Farmers Mom of the Year Finalists Announced Administration Officials Visiting Flooded Areas Topcon Expands Farming Operations with System 210 Is Your Crop Insurance Information Accurate? 1099 Reporting Requirements Axed Scout Bean Fields For Signs Of 'Damping Off' Iowa's Future Strengthened By FFA And Agriculture Yamaha Increasing ATV Production in USA Ethanol Lowers Fuel Prices Dramatically House Members Request GIPSA Analysis Timeframe House Members Request GIPSA Analysis Timeframe Economic Debate Pushes Energy Policy to Back Burner FSIS Suspends E. coli O157 Tests for Dry Sausage Closed Section of Mississippi River Reopened Beef Farmers Are Socially Responsible Relay Timer Reduces Dead Battery Surprises USDA Will Take Another Look At Crop Projections Iowa Corn 92% Planted, Beans 47% Complete NRCS Watching Fields For Conservation Compliance Time To Make Big Changes In Agriculture? New Options in Utility Tractor Tires USDA Special Survey Set For Early June Should You Buy Farmland Or Stocks? Four-State Dairy Conference To Address Key Issues Iowa 4-H Foundation Website Gets New Look Greenhorn Grazing Course Also Offered In Eastern Iowa Future Fuel Offers New Opportunity For Ethanol Plants No Bond Between Land Use Changes and Biofuels ISU To Lead Alternative Hen-Housing Study Farm Credit Services Has Increased Earnings ARS Agronomist Creates Farmer-Friendly, Crop Growth Software Kubota Offers Choice in ZTR Technology DDGS Sales Up in Southeast Asia Michigan State Research Is Working To Change 'Know Your Food' Concept Michigan State Research Is Working To Change 'Know Your Food' Concept 'Farmers Drive Iowa' Will Promote Renewable Fuels Biodiesel Reduces Harmful Emissions Significantly Iowan Meets With Panama Canal Authority Farm Groups Testify on Trade Farm Groups Testify on Trade Cutworms Threaten Corn Seedlings Should I Enroll In ACRE For 2011? Haymaker's Handbook In Third Edition Mexican Trucking Plan Near Ready Plenty of Problems to Look For in Young Corn Need To Add Crop Hail Coverage? Using Bioreactors On The Farm To Improve Water Quality Make Corn Replant Decisions Carefully Report Addresses Flaws in USDA's Program Delivery System Report Focuses on Livestock Feed From Ethanol Production Topcon Expands Farming Operations with System 210 Iowa Corn Growers Support Ethanol Tax Proposal Grass Holds Key To Beef Cattle Expansion Silver Anniversary for the Hay Expo Silver Anniversary for the Hay Expo Silver Anniversary for the Hay Expo VEETC Reduction and Transition a Logical Step Forward House Expected to Pass Outer Continental Shelf Plan Bill Would Provide for Open Fuel Standard Pork Checkoff Offers Pork Management Conference Higher Bean Yields Begin With Improving Root Health Apply Now For Iowa Century Farm Honor Lawmakers Are Talking Budget Coalition To Support Iowa Farmers Offers Internship Iowa Continues To Lead In Egg Production PFI Announces Youth Mini-Grant Recipients Soybean Seed Treatments Put To The Test Funding Break For Small Organic Farms Beef Producers Invited To Greenhorn Grazing Series Increased SCN Reproduction on Resistant Varieties Does Not Mean Failure New Members Appointed To State Soil Committee Approach to Endangered Species List Changing Antitrust Lawsuit Filed by Justice Department Two Important Genomes Sequenced Iowa Corn Planting Jumps To 69% Complete Plant Soybeans Now, Or Wait? NCBA Calls for Implementation of Pending Trade Agreements NCBA Calls for Implementation of Pending Trade Agreements Undersecretary Says USDA Will Continue to Expand Alternative Fuels Study Addresses Food Security Issue New Hay Technology Unveiled Missouri Ag Director Holds Roundtable Hearings Court Rules CAFO Permits Not Authorized by CWA Court Rules CAFO Permits Not Authorized by CWA Bill Would Improve Rural Healthcare Weigh Expected Corn Yield Loss vs. Sloppy Planting Weeds Are Focus Of This Week's 'Crop Minute' Farm Program Signup Deadline June 1 CBB-NCBA Working on Differences CBB-NCBA Working on Differences Watch For Black Cutworms On Corn Generation III Gyrorake for Hay Producers Farmland Rental Rates Up Sharply Which Corn Will Yield Best This Year? Iowa Legislature Passes Renewable Fuels Bill Discrimination Meeting Held Campaign Launched to Combat Top Meat Myths Campaign Launched to Combat Top Meat Myths Don't Be Confused By Refuge-In-Bag Improve Your Grazing System This Year New Mapping Receiver from Topcon School Lunch Program to be Investigated CAST Paper Examines Agricultural Air Issues Drip Pans Can Fit Together in Many Shapes Groups Support Grassley-Conrad Ethanol Tax Proposal Administration, Congress to Talk About Free Trade Agreements Administration, Congress to Talk About Free Trade Agreements ICGA Urging Farmers To Call Branstad Northey Supports US-Mexico Trucking Program E15 Blend To Fuel NASCAR Racers At Iowa Speedway Cruise Control for Center Pivot Sprinkler Monsanto Officially Rolls Out Refuge in a Bag Without Obstacles, Pork Industry Can Thrive Consider Your Conservation Needs This Spring Rusty Duck Serves Iowa's Best Burger Bill Introduced to Stop Ethanol Subsidies Hearing Focuses on Environmental Data Assess Spring Alfalfa Stands Now Bull Sales Attracting Active Buyers WCI Honored For Fostering Civil Discussion Plan Now To Attend 2011 World Pork Expo Don't Switch Corn Maturities Yet Lincoln's New Welder/Generator Levee Breach Leaves Payback Questions New Initiative to Provide Path to Transform Food and Ag Policy Planters Are Rolling, But Corn Planting Still Lags Across Iowa Kuhn Krause, Inc New Name in Farm Equipment Field Secretary Tours South, Sees Infrastructure Problems Continuing La Nina Weather Pattern Suggests Lower Corn Yield Missouri vs. Corps Standoff Could Be Over Legislation to be Introduced Ending Oil and Gas Subsidies Corn Refiners Respond to Sugar Lawsuit Secretary Urges More Help in Feeding Hungry How Much Soil Compaction Are You Creating? Timing Of Early Preplant Herbicides How Much Corn Can We Plant On A Good Day In Iowa? NIFA Director Beachy Resigns More Than Planting Date Impacts Corn Yield Potential Disaster Programs Cover Storm Damage Iowa State Students Place First In National Agriculture Contest Corn Hybrids Can Adjust To Late Planting Dates Iowa Legislature Likely To Meet For Two More Weeks Proposed Guidelines Worry Farm Groups Proposed Guidelines Worry Farm Groups Iowa Family Wins 2011 Stewardship Award EPA Challenged by NCBA, FCA Beef is Now a High-Stakes Gamble Beef is Now a High-Stakes Gamble Sugar Farmers Sue Corn Processors on Sugar Claims Bt Corn Technology Isn't Foolproof Clean Water Framework Released by Administration Clean Water Framework Released by Administration Ethanol Keeps Money in Consumer Pockets, Boosts National Economy Apply For Funding Of Flex-Fuel Pumps USDA Partners with Defense to Support Military Families Recipe Finalists Announced Become an Advocate for Agriculture Economic Recovery Expected To Continue Lincoln Repowers the Outback 145 Welder President Urges Action on Energy Problems Planting Continues to Be Delayed by Weather More Groups Involved in GIPSA Rule Proposal More Groups Involved in GIPSA Rule Proposal Iowa Corn Planting Is Slowest In 10 Years Entries for Farm Mom of the Year Still Open Five New Iowa On-Farm Grants Announced Every Day Is Earth Day Iowa Corn Promotion Board Schedules Elections Save The Earth, Save A Dollar Last Chance For Iowa Farmers To Vote Monsanto Donation to Help St. Louis Relief Two New Hay Makers Hit the Meadows Have Ethanol Subsidies Really Affected Corn Prices? Yields, Money And Herbicide Resistance Hot-Dip Galvanizing Stops Rust! EPA Has Final Policy Assessment on Dust EPA Has Final Policy Assessment on Dust Expansion of Jurisdiction Would Hit Farmers Hard Will EPA Regulate Runoff From Fields? New Bill Would Help Dairy Farmers Utilize H-2A Biodiesel, Ethanol Look Better Than Ever Zinc Stops Rust! 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Pesticide Applicator Testing Changes FSA Explains How Farm Numbers Are Assigned Become A Better Nitrogen Manager Two Weeks Remain in Iowa Legislative Session BIGMAP Conference To Focus On Sustainability, Co-Existence Revisiting Residual Herbicides 2011 Budget Passes House and Senate 2011 Budget Passes House and Senate CRP General Sign-up Deadline Nears Direct Payments are Likely to Be Cut Disaster Programs Available From FSA Storm Recovery Guide From ISU Extension Ethanol Policy Forum Disappointing Chevron Introduces New Delo ESI Budget Proposal is a Suggestion for Committees Keep Dairy Cows on Full Rations Keep Dairy Cows on Full Rations Good Bulls Are Selling Like Hotcakes New Initiative Launched by Fertilizer Industry U.S. Meat Exports Continue Growth U.S. Meat Exports Continue Growth U.S. Meat Exports Continue Growth Prediction For Stewart's Disease Of Corn 'Farm To School' Chapters Formed In Iowa Crary Industries Providing Hopper Covers Simple Calculation Reveals Soil Phosphorus and Potassium Removal Federal Budget Scrutinized by Ag Econmists Alfalfa Weevil Hatch Happening Now Corn Nitrogen Rate Calculator Updated Caution Flag On Planting Corn This Week Details of 2011 Budget Compromise Coming Out Details of 2011 Budget Compromise Coming Out Grocery Sales Recover In 2010 Spilled Milk Can Now Be Just That More Bean Leaf Beetles Predicted This Summer Multi-Voltage Hobart Welder Has Seven Output Voltages Spring Fieldwork Underway In Iowa Vilsack Challenge: If Government Doesn't Do It, Who Does? Higher Ethanol Blends Discussed by Automakers Applying Too Early Could Mean Nitrogen Loss Nebraska Town Takes Proactive Approach to HSUS Nebraska Town Takes Proactive Approach to HSUS It's Tornado Season: Is Your Farm Ready? Weed Resistance To Herbicide Increasing Narrower Trailed Mower from Kuhn Government Shutdown Avoided Lawmakers Moving To Tighten EPA Regulation Some Reminders On Managing SDS New Corn Growth And Development Publication Remember Enterprise Units In Your Planting Decisions When Is Best Date To Plant Corn? 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CRP Mid-Contract Management Required ATV PTO Add-On Air Quality Task Force Appointments Made Online Scholarship Winners Announced Supreme Court Sides With Kansas in Water Dispute Supreme Court Sides With Kansas in Water Dispute Poultry Influenza Under Control Establish A Good Soybean Stand New Ethanol Firm Opens Office In Ames Roto-Mix has New Mixers Dirt-Less Digger Budget Deadline Looms Groups Form World Farmers Organization State Reaches Hog Agreement With Christensen Farms Enhanced Coupling Where Do Fruits, Vegetables Fit? U.S. Oil Leases Untouched Food Executive's Comments Anger Corn Growers Kubota Upgrades RTV900 with XT Model Aronia: A High Value Crop For Iowa? Get Rid Of Sidewall Compaction Fuel Container, Container Tight Supplies Persisting For Corn On-farm Trials Jump In Popularity General CRP Signup Deadline Near Bill Would Permanently Repeal Estate Tax Bill Would Permanently Repeal Estate Tax CWA and FIFRA Amended to Restore Previous Regulatory Framework Bill to Change Depreciation Schedule on Farm Equipment Proposed Anti-Ethanol Amendment Removed from Small Business Bill Check Planter Settings Before Heading To Field One-person Wood Processor Take The Strain Out Of Fencing Refuge Confusion Raises Concern For Bt Corn Lawsuit Filed Against Monsanto New Soil Fumigant Applicator President Talks Alternative Solutions to Oil Groups Praise President's Commitment to Renewable Fuels Congress Still Debating How to Repeal 1099 Congress Still Debating How to Repeal 1099 Students Learn And Earn At Beef Scholarship Extravaganza April Is Month Of Military Child In Iowa Stabenow Addresses Dodd-Frank Act Stine Agronomists Helping Tell Ag's Story Iowa Farm Families To Host Winner Of National Contest Twin-auger Mixer Contain A Fuel Spill Soybean Disease Publication Available As E-Book IPM Extension Journal Now Available Claim $$ for Propane Conversion NPPC Testifies on Panamanian FTA New Employee, Officers For Iowa Cattlemen's Foundation United Soybean Board Invites Producers to 'See For Yourself' Where Does Glyphosate Go? Lightweight Corn Head Survey Says: Cattle Produced in Every State Survey Says: Cattle Produced in Every State New Ute from Cushman Faster Bin Unloading Avoid Common Corn Planting Mistakes NRCS Has an 'App' for That Court Extends CWA Permit Deadline New NASS Site Visited by Government Officials Lawmakers Continue Battle Over Federal Budget Will 2011 Corn Acreage Be Enough? Motion Filed in Pesticide Use Case Plant Soybeans Early To Maximize Yield Enhancing A Deep-till Rig Higher Rate For Anhydrous EPA Reports on Air Quality Iowa Honors Borlaug With Statue In U.S. Capitol E15 Stoppage Requested by Automakers Report: Market Approach Failing in U.K. Big Week for Grain Markets Ag Protection Act Needs Action Food Exec Angers Corn Group Sidedress Pro Protect Your Tires NRCS Announces Grassland Reserve Program Signup 'Shift Up, Throttle Back' Saves Tractor Fuel Eligible for Conservation Compliance Variance? Beef Industry Educates Members of Congress Beef Industry Educates Members of Congress Farmers Fired Up and Ready to Roll in Southern Corn Belt Farmers' Share Of Food Dollar Shrinks Apply Now To Attend Iowa Ag Youth Institute Iowa Farmland Values Jump 25% ISU President Geoffroy Is Retiring Off Shore Wind Development Takes Another Step Moline Is New Division Director At IDALS It's Time to Tell Agriculture's Story It's Time to Tell Agriculture's Story Top 10 In Iowa's 'Best Burger' Contest Putze Named To Farmers & Ranchers Alliance Board Trail Mower Provides Options Innovative Loader Gets An Upgrade ISU Professor Reappointed To Air Quality Task Force New Vice President For Extension & Outreach At Iowa State Appointments Made to Minority Farmer Committee Appointments Made to Minority Farmer Committee Biodiesel Industry Is Good For Livestock E85 Sales Set New Iowa Record KUHN Group Announces the Acquisition of KRAUSE Corporation Secretary Speaks Out For Ethanol and Other Issues More Fresh Fruit and Vegetables Going to Schools Ag Committee Hearing on Gas Prices Scheduled Weatherproof Ag Notebooks Rugged Electric Vehicle Concerns Rise About Herbicide Resistant Weeds All You Ever Need To Know About Hogs, Pigs, Pork Honeyman New Interim Head Of Leopold Center Corn and Soybean Acres Gain, Reports Farm Futures Survey Wildlife Recreation Survey Announced Grassley Wants Ag Committee Hearing Potato Packs Ready to Feed Hungry New R-CALF USA Officers Selected New R-CALF USA Officers Selected Energy Efficient Dryer Secretary Seeks Committee Members Participate In 2011 FFA Chapter Challenge ICA Names Strohbehn To Hall Of Fame Another Suit Against USDA and RR Alfalfa Another Suit Against USDA and RR Alfalfa CSX Supports FFA Programs Funds to Aid Hungry Low-Income Children Cattle Woman Takes Story to Capitol Hill Cattle Woman Takes Story to Capitol Hill Poultry, Livestock Fuel Rural Economies Iowa Learning Farms Offers How-To DVDs FMC Announces New Preplant Label for Cadet Herbicide 25x'25 Says Time to Review Energy Policy Programs to Support Hispanic Students Unveiled Wolf Protection Case Resolved Wolf Protection Case Resolved Farmers Say Video-Ban Law Is Needed Ag Secretary Promotes Health Law Bill Would Prohibit Secret Animal-Abuse Videos Graduate Numbers Exceed 2,000 for Beef Advocacy Program Graduate Numbers Exceed 2,000 for Beef Advocacy Program Proposals to Receive WREP Funding Eye On Your Soil When Will We Have 300 Bushel Per Acre Corn? Safe Grain Mover Report on Dairy Industry to be Available Soon Official on Clean Use of Antibiotics Farmers' Share Of Food Dollar Shrinks Apply Now To Attend Iowa Ag Youth Institute How Long Will La Nina Last In 2011? Check Condition Of Recovering Forage Stands Workshops Offer Updates For Feedlots, Dairies Public Broadcasting Debated Before Vote Pork Industry to Aid Japanese Recovery Pork Industry to Aid Japanese Recovery Groups Will Assemble Meals for Malnourished Children Online Scholarship in Full Communications Online Scholarship in Full Communications Kuhn Offers 5-Year Warranty MBW Launches ProTrakker Celebrate Iowa State University Extension Week Iowa's Biodiesel Industry Bouncing Back Rotary Cutter Addition CBO Report Addresses Budgets Government Wide CBO Report Addresses Budgets Government Wide CBO Report Addresses Budgets Government Wide Plans Based on Chesapeake Model Moving Forward Plans Based on Chesapeake Model Moving Forward Governors Ask for Improved Corn for Ethanol Reporting FSIS Issues New Performance Standards Will New Pork Slogan Inspire Consumers? Apply Now For 'Wrap Your Own, Iowa Grown' More Interest In Producing Food For Personal Use Future of Sugar Policy is Strong Farm Bureau Addresses EPA Regulations Issue Iowans To Attend 2011 National 4-H Conference ICA Kicks Off 2011 Bull Sales In Bloomfield Are we headed for $5 gasoline? Green Subcompact Player AgDiscovery Program Seeks Iowa Teens Trimble Enters into Definitive Agreement to Acquire OmniSTAR Budget Views and Estimates Letter Adopted by House Ag Court Strikes Down CAFO Rule Court Strikes Down CAFO Rule Secretary Honors Producers During Ag Day Secretary Honors Producers During Ag Day Grant Program For Planting Research Conservation Report on Chesapeake Bay Released Japanese Meat Imports Will Recover Japanese Meat Imports Will Recover NASS Statistics Available to Classrooms Ethanol Exports Could Double In 2011 Snow Blower Choices Next CR Ready for House Action More USDA Renewable Energy Funds Available Researchers to Look at Contamination Researchers to Look at Contamination Eligible For Conservation Compliance Variance? Farmers Preparing For Spring Field Work A Proper Grade Longer Ragweed Season Confirmed Confederation Addresses Potential Feed Shortage Confederation Addresses Potential Feed Shortage New Budget Deadline Proposal Put Forward by House GOP Subcommittee Holds Hearing on FDA Funding Subcommittee Holds Hearing on FDA Funding ASA Voices Concerns Over Budget Cuts Corn Growers To Explore Payment Shift High Prices Force Agronomist to Expand Chart New Zero-Turn Player Electronic Rural Atlas Available Continued Growth Seen in Pork and Beef Exports BASF and Monsanto Take Dicamba Tolerant Cropping System Collaboration to the Next Level Another CRP Sign-Up Begins March 14 Iowa Cattlemen's Association Has New President Tips On Cover Crop Management Flexible Cropland Leases That Work Iowa 2011 Farm Custom Rate Guide Available Checklist For Spring Forage Seedings Japan Earthquake to Impact Grain Trade Japan Earthquake to Impact Grain Trade General CRP Sign-up to Begin Vilsack Appears Before Senate Appropriations Subcommittee EPA Administrator Testifies Before House Ag Committee EPA Administrator Testifies Before House Ag Committee New Hydro For Utility Vehicle Iowa Beef Council Hires Industry Relations Director Herbicide Guide For Corn, Soybean Production New Compact Series Update to Broadband Infrastructure Program Necessary Target Your Market Target Your Market Budget Bills Fail in Senate Budget Bills Fail in Senate Ag Committee Holds Hearing on Reducing Regulations Avoid This Crop Insurance Mistake! Report Released on Recovery Act Clean Air Act Focus of Hearing Clean Air Act Focus of Hearing Staying On Track Maxi-Probe Friends of America's Heartland Premier New Web Site Friends of America's Heartland Premier New Web Site Be On Lookout For New Plant Pest In Iowa Senator Grassley Speaks to Home Grown Energy Ideas Wanted On Nitrate Removal Wetlands Reunion Planned For Former FFA Officers Vote For Favorite Iowa Heritage Area Site Action Taken in Milk Lawsuit Biodiesel Good for Livestock Economics Businesses Can Sponsor Soybean Field Guide A 'Super' Forage Box Leopold Center Looks At New Ideas For Agriculture Connecting Women Farmland Owners With Beginning Farmers New Mower Lineup Derivatives Regs Have to Work for Both Consumers and Businesses Looking For Farm 'Mom Of The Year' Almond Scholarship Announced Time Running Out To Insure Crops Priorities Reset by ASA Loan Guarantees Released to Electric Cooperatives National School Breakfast Week Underway Big Manure Mover 2011 Proclaimed Year of the Weeks Act New Transmission For Compact Tractor Grants Available to Provide Broadband Access Cattle Feeder Receives Iowa Beef Quality Award General Sign Up For CRP Begins Two Budget Bills Expected on Capitol Hill Pork Industry Focuses on Environmental Issues Pioneer Opening Agriculture's Educational Doors Looking for America's Farmer Mom How Does Soybean Yield Fare Following Corn? A Power Mixer New Beef Safety Guidelines Announced New Beef Safety Guidelines Announced Value-Priced Zero-Turn Mower Ask Your Dealer For Sample Bags Of New Hybrids R-CALF USA Responds to Latest Canadian BSE Case R-CALF USA Responds to Latest Canadian BSE Case R-CALF USA Responds to Latest Canadian BSE Case Bill Would Shift Iowa Egg Regulation 75 Years of Master Farmer Awards Report Changes in Rental Agreements? Plan To Attend Two-State Swine Seminar New Resource For Iowa Farmland Owners, Tenants Biodiesel Meetings To Explain Tax Credits Cattle Prices Are Record High, So Are Costs Cooperators Needed For Black Cutworm Monitoring Lucas Tells Farmers What They Want to Hear Not an Amine, Not an Ester Another Canadian Case of BSE Another Canadian Case of BSE USB Study Shows Disconnect to Livestock Market USB Study Shows Disconnect to Livestock Market Seed Company Invests in Science Education Corn and Soy Associations are Optimistic Mexican/U.S. Trucking Dispute Settled Mexican/U.S. Trucking Dispute Settled A Dry Soil Amendment House Passes 1099 Measure House Passes 1099 Measure Adding A Problem Solver Farmers Can Learn More About Cover Crops WFAN Founder Enroute To Afghanistan As Ag Adviser Dairy Advisory Committee Makes Recommendations Dairy Advisory Committee Makes Recommendations New Fungicide Tool on the Way President Signs CR GAO Report Focuses on Government Wide Saving 1099 Repeal Vote Expected Today Aggressive Closer New Equipment Rubber HedgeHog Has the Grip Dr. Elisabeth Hagen Addresses Beef Safety Summit Participants Dr. Elisabeth Hagen Addresses Beef Safety Summit Participants FFA Members to Make Connections Team Nutrition Grants Available Farm Credit Services Announces Year-End Results Leopold Center Funds 19 Grants For 2011 Two Week CR Passes House 1099 Repeal Vote is Set President Backs Health Care Deadline Iowa Corn Growers Announce Ag Scholarships Practical Farmers of Iowa Has Youth Mini-Grants ISU Economist Assesses Obama Health Care Plan Get Nutrients Where Needed DEF Solution On The Go Plan Now To Attend World Pork Expo You Must Be Certified To Sell Morel Mushrooms Summit Explores Beef Safety from Gate to Plate Summit Explores Beef Safety from Gate to Plate Beyond Roundup: Say Hello to Enlist Porter-Cable Angle Grinder Ready to Cut ISU Helping Develop Entrepreneurs In Agriculture Grants Available To Help Promote Specialty Crops Two Week CR Extension Likely Proposed GIPSA Rule Focus of Meeting Proposed GIPSA Rule Focus of Meeting Ag Committee Hearing Announced New Fungicide Decision Tool For Farmers Pork Board to Present New Campaign Crary Air Reel For Case IH Headers Put A Face On Your Farm New Crop Insurance Proposal Advanced USDA Package Would Settle Claims USDA Package Would Settle Claims Vilsack Calls Government Shutdown Talk Premature Use Facts To Make Glyphosate Decisions Seed Treatment Options Become More Important Left-Hand Row Unit for Post Emerge Nutrients Iowa Water Conference Brims With Ideas Significant Oil Well Producing in Indiana Tell FSA About New Acres For 2011 Farmers May Add Corn Plants Instead Of Acres Summer Incentive Helps Terrace Construction Separate Fact From Fiction When Applying Anhydrous Ammonia USDA Projects Higher Plantings of Most Crops Lawmakers Position for Budget Showdown Pioneer Introduces New Forage Inoculant Maximize 2011 Investments In Crop Inputs Strategies To Reduce Swine Feeding Costs Mahindra Unveils New 5010 Tractor Stabenow Sets Agenda at Outlook Forum 2011 Livestock Prospects Are High 2011 Livestock Prospects Are High Survey Shows Farmers Making Own Energy Survey Shows Farmers Making Own Energy R-CALF Requests More Action R-CALF Requests More Action USDA Changing VAPG Program Tune-In To PFI's Spring 'Farminar' Series Pioneer Launches New Program for Iowa, Missouri Growers SowBridge Subscriber Says Program Adds Value Program Provides Increased Food Access Explore Wind, Solar Energy In Iowa Improve Fuel Efficiency With Tractor Maintenance Long-time Iowa Soybean Breeder Honored Kuhn Knight Builds AccuSpread What Can Cooperatives Bring To A Shifting Iowa Population? Joint Hogs/Pigs Report Released PLC Supports Moves to Protect Livestock Producers PLC Supports Moves to Protect Livestock Producers Farm Bureau Support Helps Feed Hungry Plans For Managing Gypsy Moth In 2011 Commodity Classic Speakers Announced JCB 3230 Comes to the U.S. as Xtra Daytona Good Start for Farm American Sponsorship ISU Extension Offers Crop Scout School Three-Wheeled Sprayer Floats E15 Blends Are At Least 4 Years from Reaching the Consumer Brazil Converted Its Automobile Fleet to Ethanol In Record Time, Why Can't the U.S.? Ethanol Leadership Says Now Is the Time to Present a Unified Voice Experts Discuss How to Preserve Ethanol Tax Credits Despite Rampant Budget Cuts Calving Season Tips For Beef Producers Look At Alternatives For Machinery Ownership EPA Preparing to Review Rules EPA Preparing to Review Rules NCGA's Tolman Brags on U.S. Farmers to Ethanol Industry Monsanto Purchasing Divergence, Inc GloWear PowerCap Lights the Way USDA Reports More Feedlot Placements in January USDA Reports More Feedlot Placements in January Food Check-Out Week Underway House Approves HR 1 House Approves HR 1 Funding Bill Could Impact Corn-based Ethanol Estate Planning: Now We Have Temporary Certainty Grain in Storage Could Still Have Problems Krone Unwraps Big X Forage Harvesters Much Of Last Year's Hay Needs Supplement Hard-facing Makes Yetter Knife Tougher SURE Sign-up Period Open for 2009 Crop Loss What's Your Crop Insurance Plan For 2011? Cattlemen's Convention Offers Top-Notch Speakers, Timely Topics ISU Wins $20M Grant Senate Ag Committee Hearing Held Senate Ag Committee Hearing Held Suit Filed Against U.S. Fish and Wildlife Suit Filed Against U.S. Fish and Wildlife Cattle on Feed Report Due Friday Cattle on Feed Report Due Friday Fun, Finds & Fame To Highlight Iowa Cattlemen's Foundation Auction National FFA Week Begins this Saturday New Technology Allows Continuous Harvesting 1099 and Continuing Debate Action on the Hill 1099 and Continuing Debate Action on the Hill Southern Iowa Can Produce Biomass Crops Massey Ferguson Intros MF1526 Tractor New Disc Mowers from Rhino FWS Releases Siting Guidance On-Farm Renewable Energy Production Information Coming Global Health Organization Locates To ISU Spring Not a Good Sign for Parched South Central Plains Spring Not a Good Sign for Parched South Central Plains How To Make Money Making Hay In Iowa Land Conservation Tax Incentive Introduced Inspectors Enforcing New Egg Safety Rules Farm Groups Team with NASCAR Driver to Promote E-15 Key Senate Ag Staff Appointments Announced Lucas Doesn't Want Mandatory Programs 'Nickeled and Dimed' Love Burgers? Nominate One To Be Iowa's Best Burger! Mitas Tires Will Be Made In Iowa Toshiba Offers Money-Saving Pump Speed Drive U.S. Beef Herd Continues to Shrink U.S. Beef Herd Continues to Shrink Dairy Industry Advisory Committee Discusses Draft Recommendations NFU Wants Budget Burden Spread New Link Connects Farmers, Markets & Consumers New Rules Aim To Improve Bt Corn Refuge Compliance National Teach Ag Day Coming Up American Heart Association Puts Its Heart-Healthy Mark On Beef Tax Scammer Alert New Hooded Sprayer Aims at Pigweed Some Tough Choices Made in New Budget Some Tough Choices Made in New Budget USDA Releases Farm Financials Forecast USDA Releases Farm Financials Forecast Secretary's Thoughts on Financial Outlook Waterhemp: Tough Weed Wins Again Iowa Environmental Council To Intervene In Farm Bureau Lawsuit Ag Hearing's Witness List Released Ag Hearing's Witness List Released Crustbuster Foursome Set for Planting Fuel Prices to Keep Climbing House Committees to Study Regulations House Committees to Study Regulations Editorial Gets Attention of Growth Energy Cash, Scholarships Available For Iowa FFA Members Iowa Corn, Soybean Farmers Launch 'CommonGround' APHIS Deregulates Corn Amylase Be Sure You Understand SURE For 2011 Iowa's Leopold Center Loses Associate Director Three new Farmall Models from Case IH Iowa's Changing Climate: Will the Rain Ever Stop? Iowa Beef Expo Beginning Its 35th Run Combo Crop Insurance Workshops Scheduled Hearing on Derivatives Held By House Ag Committee Iowa Lawmakers Want To Hear From You On Regulatory Concerns NRCS-EPA Numbers Do Not Agree Iowa Economy Powered By Renewable Fuels Pork Producers Approve Ethanol Policy Groups Request Regulatory Changes Groups Request Regulatory Changes M-F Launches 2600 High Clearance Lineup Senators Ask What's Next for Competition Issue Senators Ask What's Next for Competition Issue Partial Counter-Cyclical Payments Not Coming American Ethanol Sponsoring Clint Bowyer's 33 Car Iowan Elected To American Sheep Industry Board Legislators Need Input On Land Use Planning House Rules Committee Approves Rule for Regulation Pioneer Hi-Bred Announces New Optimum Intrasect Insect Protection New DuPont Realm Q Herbicide Delivers National FFA Organization Seeks Young Farmers NACD Sets Goals, Elects Officers Conference Prepares, Inspires Young Farmers Senator Sends Letter to House Oversight Committee Senator Sends Letter to House Oversight Committee Testing for Salmonella and E.coli Promising Testing for Salmonella and E.coli Promising Regional Pork Meetings Offer Wealth of Information Iowa 4-H Teams Take High Honors ISU Ag College Recognizes Outstanding Faculty, Staff New Iowa Rules For Selling, Labeling Firewood Beef Checkoff Survey Results Revealed Beef Checkoff Survey Results Revealed Iowa USDA Ag Specialist Serving In Afghanistan Poverty Rate Is Increasing In Iowa All USDA Programs Should be Examined for Budget Cuts ISU To Hold Crop Insurance Meetings, Webinar Bt Compliance Remains Effective Conservation Station Ready For 2011 Protection of Sage Grouse Funded Foster Children Eligible for Nutrition Programs Krone Unwraps Big X Forage Harvesters Federal Funding Cuts Proposed Youth Attending Biodiesel Conference Asparagus Growers May Have Benefits Available Commercial Pesticide Applicators Can Be Recertified How Many Hybrid, Variety Choices Do You Need? Branstad Takes Tough Stance On Balancing State Budget Sukup Adds Double-Run Conveyor to its Line Riots Can't Be Blamed on Ethanol Crop Insurance Premiums Will Be Up This Year Good Time To Plant New Forage Species In Pastures NFL Commissioner Goodell Joins Leading Authorities in Historic Private-Public Pledge to Fight Childhood Obesity USDA Partially Deregulates Roundup Ready Sugar Beets Iowa Cattle Family Brings Home National Environmental Award FSA May Help With Weather Related Losses FSA May Help With Weather Related Losses Law Would Put Brakes on EPA Karl Rove Says Tough Choices Must be Made Karl Rove Says Tough Choices Must be Made 1099 Amendment Passes Senate 1099 Amendment Passes Senate NCGA and NASCAR Are Partnering Up Winners Of Renewable Fuels Video Contest Joint Farm Grain Bin Safety Video Unveiled CSIF Offers $7,500 Reward In Vandalism Cases Syngenta Receives Approval for Triple Stack Corn in Brazil NCBA President Denounces Government Overreach NCBA President Denounces Government Overreach Storm Is Impacting Agriculture Storm Is Impacting Agriculture Sorghum Referendum Underway Stricter Water Quality Standards Tentatively Approved States Feeding Those in Need ISU Helps In Launch Of New Biobased Label Number Of Organic Growers Continues To Increase Most States Moving on Health Care Pork Quality Plus Advisors Need To Recertify Register For SowBridge Educational Series Child Nutrition Focus of Visit Tri-State Agriculture Summit To Provide Outlook Is a FiberMax Couch In Your Future? Put Renewable Energy To Work On Your Farm Iowa Swine Industry Grants Available Cornbelt Cow-Calf Conference To Celebrate 40th Anniversary CCC Rates Announced for February New Beef Pricing Program Released New Beef Pricing Program Released Ag Leader adds 'Russian' to ParaDyme's Language 2010 Dietary Guidelines Released Judge Declares Obamacare Unconstitutional Grassley Presses EPA for Review Grassley Presses EPA for Review Farmers Delivering Biomass To Project Liberty Keep Super Bowl Foods Safe Ag Leader Gears OptRx to Wheat Reaction to Dietary Guidelines Mostly Positive Reaction to Dietary Guidelines Mostly Positive Cattlemen To Set Priorities At Annual Meeting Cattle Report Shows Lowest Numbers in Decades Cattle Report Shows Lowest Numbers in Decades General CRP Sign-up Announced Expansion of On-Farm Energy Audit Strong Demand For Farmland Continues Movement on South Korea FTA Urged by NPPC Plan to Establish Mustang Sanctuary Rejected Plan to Establish Mustang Sanctuary Rejected Nitrogen Sensing for On-the-Go Applications Still In Infancy AGM disc mower series feature oval-shaped cutter discs Comment Wanted On Specialty Crop Grants Are You Bringing New Land Into Production? Pesticide Applicators Input Requested Climate Change: Is It For Real? Are We Making Progress With No-till? Iowans Urged To Help Tell Story Of Biofuels Monsanto Announces Initiative to Increase Food Security New Goals Set By Department of Interior Senate Ag Committee Named Advocates For Agriculture Lead Out Loud Herbicide Guide For Corn, Soybeans Available Markets Awaiting Friday's USDA Cattle Inventory Report Markets Awaiting Friday's USDA Cattle Inventory Report AGCO Expanding Minnesota Tractor Factory National Debt to Continue Climb National Debt to Continue Climb Weather Concerns Continue for the Wheat Belt RR-Alfalfa Finally Gets 'Green Light' Senators Want Regulation Review Reaction to State of Union Continues NCGA Would Like More Detail on Infrastructure Using Climate Information to Assess Expected Yields WRDA Funding May Have Better Chance Now New Cropland Exploring Service Announced Farmers Invited To Social Media Training Tradition Broken During President's Speech Members of House Ag Committee Subcommittees Announced Monsanto Completes FDA Consultation Process For Low-Saturate, High-Oleic Soybeans Is Your Farm Eligible For Century Farm Honor? Sign Up For 2009 SURE Payments Has Begun Strike an Arc On-line New Highs Hit by Pork Futures New Highs Hit by Pork Futures USDA Dollars to Benefit Rural Healthcare Ag Secretary Promotes Atlas to Mayors 'Peace Through Corn' Brings History Alive Child Feeding Program Expanded Looking For A Job? Today's Farmers Are Human Resource Directors Drawer Storage Cabinets Hold More than Shelves Wide Range of Reaction to E15 Decision USDA To Help Fund Renewable Energy Studies La Nina Raises Drought Risk For U.S. 2EZ Hay Hauler Handles Up to Six Bales Percent of Groundwater Recharge Going into Spring will Be Key Dairy Program Could Come This Year NCBA Sets Priorities NCBA Sets Priorities Iowa's FSA Advisory Committee Reappointed Don't Lose Your Farm Program Eligibility Pork Industry Forum Announced Glyphosate Resistant Weeds Spreading In Iowa Soybean Disease Guide Now Available Tight Corn Supply Worries Hog Producers E15 Receives Approval for Older Vehicles Many Believe Budget Pressure Will Impact Farm Policy Farm Groups Welcome Presidential Order Farm Groups Welcome Presidential Order Administration Denies Increases in Grazing Fees Administration Denies Increases in Grazing Fees Biotech Forum Held By House Ag Committee Biotech Forum Held By House Ag Committee Keep Better Track of Stored Grain Temperature Iowa Gets Another Cellulosic Ethanol Plant New Seed Tender Boosting Iowa's Local Food Economy FFA Forms Strategic Alliance NCBA Announces Impressive Speaker Line-up for 2011 Cattle Industry Convention Health Care Repealed By House Lawmakers Voice Concerns on Alfalfa Decision Biobased Products Label Announcement Thursday Democratic Members of House Ag Committee Announced Dry Manure Applicator Certification Meetings Offered Conferences Will Explore Wind, Solar Energy Organic Initiative Deadline Approaches Estrus Synchronization Planner Available USDA AMS Will Take Second Look at Beef Checkoff Agreement USDA AMS Will Take Second Look at Beef Checkoff Agreement Women Invited To Swine Risk Management Workshops Dean Foods Settlement Leaves Unhappy Producers Pork Checkoff and Partners Announce Recipients of the 2010-11 Pork Industry Scholarships Three-Wheeled Sprayer Floats Bioenergy Education Receives Boost USDA Weighs in on Beef Checkoff Agreement USDA Weighs in on Beef Checkoff Agreement Connected Farm Integrates Farm Data With New Abilities Get More Production From Pasture This Year Increase Grain Drying Efficiency Chopper Roll for BT Corn Stalks House Agriculture Committee Reorganized Jim Miller Resigns from USDA Jim Miller Resigns from USDA House Will Vote on Heath Care Repeal House Will Vote on Heath Care Repeal Trimble Introduces New Precision Ag Tools Take Time To Update FSA Records NCGA Social Media Training Event Planned NCGA Social Media Training Event Planned Higher Farmland Values Expected to Continue USDA's MyPyramid Targeted in Lawsuit Johanns Wants Ag Committee to Work Together Leading Iowa Veterinary Hospitals To Merge In-Field Seed Weighing for Accuracy ICGA Wants Lawmakers To Protect Key Programs Emissions Data from Animal Feeding Operations Released Emissions Data from Animal Feeding Operations Released United Fresh Releases Food Safety White Paper Pick Your Result, Pick Your Study New Newcastle Disease Vaccine Announced Compliance Review of NCBA Completed Compliance Review of NCBA Completed Branstad, Gingrich Headline Renewable Fuels Summit Yetter Magnum Lineup Grows Growth Seen in 2010 for Clean Energy Putting Together Flexible Cash Farm Leases Farm Employee Management Workshops Offered Farm Bureau Lists Priorities For Iowa Legislature Crop Insurance May Soon Offer Rebates U.S. is at Blending Wall USDA Invested $801 Million In Rural Iowa CSP Ranking Period Extended CSP Ranking Period Extended USDA Proposes Update to Nutrition Standards Reinke Dealers to Carry National Pumps Frantzens Receive Sustainable Ag Achievement Award EPA to Delay GHG Permitting Requirements Stabenow Addresses Agricultural Issues SURE Sign-up Period Open for 2009 Crops Get Set For $8 Corn, $15 Beans As Supplies Stay Tight Coalition To Support Iowa's Farmers Launches New Website Food Safety Meetings For Iowa Fruit & Vegetable Growers ProAG Unveils Pair of Heavy-Duty Bale Haulers Farm Bureau Delegates Pass More Resolutions Farm Bureau Delegates Pass More Resolutions Meeting Consumer and Production Demands A Look At Increase In Crop Production Cost 2011 Iowa Pork Congress Set NASCAR Champ To Keynote Iowa Renewable Fuels Summit Iowa Learning Farms Offers Webinar Series Iowa Power Farming Show To Feature New Ag Equipment, Products New Gearbox From Lindsay Encourage Ag Advocates Encourage Ag Advocates Pork Board to Meet in Oklahoma Soybean Growers Beware EPA Power Grab to Affect U.S. Society Food Safety Discussed at AFBF Meeting Demand for Mores Acres Seen Strong Program Steers Farmers Away From Fall N Topcon and DICKEY-john Join Forces Lawsuit Aganinst EPA Filed by AFBF Soy Transportation Coalition Tours Panama Canal Nebraska Firm Cleans the Air Farm Bill Faces Barriers Farm Bureau Wades into Chesapeake Bay 2011 Iowa Legislature Gets Underway NASS Discontinues Weather-Crop Summary NRCS Extends CSP Deadline Repealing Health Care Could Cost Nitrogen Utilization Trait for Corn Moves Closer to Reality Women, Food & Agriculture Network To Meet Funds Released for Seasonal High Tunnels FSA Issues Rules on FSA Death Payments Early-Birds Get Conservation Cost-Share Money Will La Nina Impact U.S. Crops In 2011? SDS Resistant Soybean Variety List Available Land Roller Not Worth Using In Iowa? Chinese Anti-Dumping Case Addressed by USGC Hard Road Ahead to Rein In EPA Low-Interest Loans For Soil Conservation Practices Soil Is Still An Overlooked Resource Miller Welding Workbench Is Portable Good Performance Rule Proposed Monsanto Updates Status of Several Projects Monsanto Announces Advancements in Annual R&D Pipeline Update Strong Pork Prices Expected in 2011 Farm Bureau Reports Food Prices Up Slightly CoBank and AgBank Propose Merger Landowners Want To Renegotiate Rent USDA To Survey Iowa Farmers Iowa Gains Population, Loses Congressional Seat Crop Prices Prompting 2011 Rent Renegotiation Keep Better Track Of Stored Grain Temperature ISA Brings Message To New York's Jumbotron Farmers Visit Iowa, Share Global Perspective How Climate Change Is Impacting Iowa New York State Considering Non-Therapeutic Ban Commodity Classic Registration Open Hesston Offers New Disc Mower Pioneer Introduces Hybrids with More Natural Drought Tolerance Funding Still Questionable for Food Safety Bill Funding Still Questionable for Food Safety Bill SURE Program Sign-Up Scheduled House Moves Forward on Health Care Repeal Farmers Work to Improve Water Quality EPA Fines Another Iowa Beef Feedlot CCC Rates Announced for January Poultry Handling and Transportation Program Developed Transport Radial Rated for Highway Repeal of Health Care Expected Polaris Pushes the SxS Envelope Iowa Growers Place In National Yield Contest Horticulture Production Numbers Up Nation's Top Sorghum Producers Identified President to Sign Food Safety Bill Farmers, Investors Vie To Own Iowa Farmland Conservation Program Deadlines Draw Near Animal Protection Groups Send Letters to Poultry Growers on LAPS Discovery Has Promise for Biofuels CRP at 25 CRP at 25 Good Question on Using Risk Protection Tools Plot Your Planting Strategy Now Soy Transportation Coalition Elects Officers Deadline for Fungicide Rebate Offer Approaching Humane Treatment Measures Proposed by FSIS Humane Treatment Measures Proposed by FSIS 2010: 2nd Wettest Year In History Crop Insurance Streamlined For 2011 New Information Listed On Herbicide Labels Anti-Dumping Investigation of U.S. DDGS Launched by China Regulation of GHG Becomes Official FSA Criticized by Inspector General Register For 2011 "Women in Denim" Conference Iowa Corn Announces New Scholarship Program Nitrogen Growing Environmental Concern South Korea Takes Action on FMD South Korea Takes Action on FMD Meat Label Rules Have Exceptions Iowa Cooperative Signs New Wind Farm Deal Farm Credit Services Makes Largest Distribution Ever Federal Tax Changes to Keep an Eye On Grants Available for Helping to Promote, Market Crops The Corn Comeback: Iowa Growers Making It Happen ICG Announce 2011 Crop Fair Schedule IRFA Is Holding A "Fuel The Future" Contest Corn Farmers Definitely In A Global Market Cooperative Program Helps Export Cheese Group Promotes Ethanol Byproduct Overseas Hog Inventory Falls 1% Michigan School Gets Grant for E15 Study New Tax Package Will Save More Farms Certified Crop Adviser Exam Review Course USDA to Revise Brucellosis Testing Requirements China to Vote on Biotech Ag Don't Slide Into the Pond FFA State Officers Attending International Leadership Seminar Appropriation of Food Safety Funding Could Be Problem Appropriation of Food Safety Funding Could Be Problem Attend An ISU "Crop Advantage" Meeting Near You Latest Information On Distillers Grains In Cattle Diets Should You Buy That New Planter or Not? Crary Blower Boosts Harvesting Capacity NRCS Easement Conservation Program Results For 2010 Healthy Kids Competition Deadline Near Ethanol Production Slides Redefining The Term 'Fence Row to Fence Row' Cellulosic Ethanol Would Have Big Impact On Iowa New Date, Location for ICA Annual Meeting How To Choose Corn Hybrids, Soybean Varieties ISU Research Farm Reports Now Available Audubon Farm Couple Win 2010 Spencer Award New Program Unites Retiring Farmers With Beginners USDA Report Summarizes CCD Research Social Media Training for Farmers Being Offered Social Media Training for Farmers Being Offered USDA Offers Conservation Funding to Organic Producers Do Wind Farms Force Birds To Fly The Coop? USDA To Survey Iowa Cattle Operations New House Ag Committee Taking Shape Extending EPA Authority is a Long Shot Farm Gets Clean Bill of Health from State of Virginia ISU Extension Offers Soil Fertility Short Course Food Safety Bill Going to President RFS Upheld by Court Conservation Financial Assistance Deadline is Jan. 21 FFA Foundation Selects New Executive Director NCBA Opposes Judge Appointment NCBA Opposes Judge Appointment Food Safety Bill Passed By Senate A Chesapeake Regulation 'Fast One' Conservation Funds Available Adair County Corn Growers Win ICGA Award Engine Manufacturers File Suit Against EPA Premise Identification Nearing Completion Premise Identification Nearing Completion CRP Flexibility Could Be In Next Farm Bill Iowans Miss Out On New Farm Subsidies Better Drought and Cold Tolerant Wheat? Woman Wins Free Food, Fuel From Iowa Corn President Obama Signs Tax Bill President Obama Signs Tax Bill Congress Able to Avoid Government Shutdown New Republican Members Named to House Ag Committee Scholarships Available For Farm Business Program Iowa MicroLoan Program Receives $50,000 Grant FSA Operating Loan Program Deadline Nears Average Value Of Iowa Farmland Reaches $5,064 In 2010 Worksaver Builds Euro to Skid Steer Adapter 2009, 2010 Set the Outer Boundaries on Corn Maturity Tune-In To Practical Farmers of Iowa Winter Farminars Tax Package Will Boost Iowa Biofuel Industry Winter Application Of Manure: Follow Regulations, Use Common Sense NCGA Announces 2010 Corn Yield Contest Winners Tax Bill Sent to the President Tax Bill Sent to the President USDA Releases EIS on RR Alfalfa USDA Releases EIS on RR Alfalfa Groups Concerned About Changes Within BLM Groups Concerned About Changes Within BLM NRCS Releases New Online Tool Average Value Of Iowa Farmland Reaches $5,064 In 2010 Farmers' Carbon Credit Programs Fade Away ISU Has Strong Global Connections Positive Reaction to Tax Passage FDA Issues Animal Drug Use Report FDA Issues Animal Drug Use Report New ISU Extension Commercial Horticulture Specialist CSIF Chooses New Leader House Committee Holds Wall Street Act Hearing R-CALF USA Back's New GIPSA Rule Analysis R-CALF USA Back's New GIPSA Rule Analysis Bayer Cropscience, UNL to Partner on Wheat-Breeding Research Feinstein Wants Ethanol Subsidies Lowered USDA to Analyze GIPSA Rule USDA to Analyze GIPSA Rule Farmers, Large Ag Firms Criticized As Polluters Confinement Site Manure Applicator Workshops Scheduled PFI Announces Savings Incentive Recipients Senate Debates Tax and Unemployment Bill Senate Debates Tax and Unemployment Bill Group Addresses Chesapeake Bay Issue Florida Crops May Have Escaped Freeze Damage Commercial Manure Applicator Training Set Wil-Rich Offers Single-Pass Tillage and Compaction Control Tax Bill Passed by Senate Tax Bill Passed by Senate Companies Ink Trait Licensing Agreement Judge Finds Against Health Care Clause USDA Researchers Report FMD Breakthrough USDA Researchers Report FMD Breakthrough Tax Extension Passes First Senate Hurdle Tax Extension Passes First Senate Hurdle Child Nutrition Bill Now Law Timetable Set For 2011 Iowa Legislative Session New Group To Focus On Iowa's Food and Farms Agri-Inject Simplifies Bleeder Valves 2011 Hay Expo Locates in Southeast Minnesota 2011 Hay Expo Locates in Southeast Minnesota 2011 Hay Expo Locates in Southeast Minnesota Senate Could Vote on Tax Bill Monday Senate Could Vote on Tax Bill Monday NACD Pushes for Full Conservation Funding 2011 Vistive Low-Linolenic Soybean Program Announced Kemper Confirmed New ASA President New Tool for Aquatic Weed Control Economy and Exports Continue to Hurt Beef Economy Economy and Exports Continue to Hurt Beef Economy Iowa Beef Certificates Make Great Christmas Gifts Water Project Funding May Benefit from New Management Plan Iowa Renewable Fuels Group Won't Push Ethanol Mandate Why No ACRE Payments For Iowa? ISU Updates SDS Management Recommendations Large Iowa Egg Farm Allowed To Sell Eggs Again Farmland Values Are Skyrocketing In Iowa Tax Cut Bill Rejected by Democratic Caucus Tax Cut Bill Rejected by Democratic Caucus Tax Package Has Benefits for Rural America Tax Package Has Benefits for Rural America Programs Offered On Proper Livestock Handling Methods President to Sign Child Nutrition Law Reduced Interest Rates Help Save Farmers Money NCGA Grower Leaders Meeting in St. Louis Seed Monitoring Added to Ag Leader's Integra Display Farmers Must Strengthen Ties with Consumers Farmers Must Strengthen Ties with Consumers USDA Simplifies Crop Insurance CRP May Not Be Re-Authorized Can Iowa Double-Crop To Increase Biomass Production? Workshops Defended by Ag, Justice Officials Workshops Defended by Ag, Justice Officials BASF Announces Expanded Label for Stamina Competition Workshop Takes Closer Look At Farm And Retail Margins Competition Workshop Takes Closer Look At Farm And Retail Margins Look Deeper For Answers to Intriguing Questions Try Reuseable Rubber Twist Tie Cooperatives Working Together Launches 2011 Membership Drive NCBA Opposes Food Safety Rider NCBA Opposes Food Safety Rider Iowans Can Apply For Block Grants For Specialty Crops Tax Deal Being Discussed on Captiol Hill Healthy People 2020 Program Unveiled More FMD Found in South Korea More FMD Found in South Korea Estate Tax Provisions Questioned by Some Democrats Estate Tax Provisions Questioned by Some Democrats How Risky Is It To Apply Nitrogen Now? Farm Bureau Looks At Tax Code Changes, Other Challenges Ag Day Contest Announced Grundfos Eyes Pumping Needs of World Agriculture Economist: Consider the Basics for Farm Bill 2012 Economist: Consider the Basics for Farm Bill 2012 Ceremony Books $3 Billion in Soybeans Geadelmann Named 2010 'Woman In Agriculture' Dairy Industry Prospects Improve Central Iowans Urged To Take Part In Land Use Survey New Dry Storage From American Craftsmen Agenda for Competitive Workshop Outlined Agenda for Competitive Workshop Outlined Farmers May Qualify For Biomass Payments Moves Expected to Save Food Safety Bill Moves Expected to Save Food Safety Bill CIG Program Dollars Available Though NRCS Plan To Attend Iowa Renewable Fuels Summit Iowa Receives $8 million Through USDA Mississippi River Basin Initiative Iowa Cattle Risk and Margin Management Workshops How You Store Corn Depends Upon Where You Live Tips To Improve Energy Efficiency In Hog Buildings Organizations Want Water Conservation Fund Expansion Stopped Organizations Want Water Conservation Fund Expansion Stopped Corn, Soybean Supplies Are On A Hair-Trigger Disease Considerations For 2011 Soybean Variety Selection Northey Looks Ahead To Next Four Years U.S., South Korea Lock Down Trade Deal U.S., South Korea Lock Down Trade Deal U.S., South Korea Lock Down Trade Deal Senate Slated to Vote on Taxes Saturday Senate Slated to Vote on Taxes Saturday American Ethanol to Fuel NASCAR Child Nutrition Bill Going to President Iowa Senator Says What's Fair for Oil Should Be Fair for Ethanol. Act Could Stop Certain EPA Rules Groups Ask Funding for Energy Titles What's Your Crop Marketing Plan For 2011? Many Benefits To Buying Locally Grown Christmas Trees Iowa Banks Remaining Financially Strong Organizations Want Water Conservation Fund Expansion Stopped Organizations Want Water Conservation Fund Expansion Stopped Livestock Vandalism Reported In Northeast Iowa What Happened To The Missing Corn Genes? eXtension Launches Web Resource For Cooperatives What Was the Most Valuable Protein at Your Tailgating Party This Fall? What Was the Most Valuable Protein at Your Tailgating Party This Fall? Crop Assistance Program Sign-up Deadline Nears Claims Settlement Act to Get President's Signature Proposed Label For E-15 Ethanol Blend Criticized Ethanol Tax Extension Pushed in Senators' Letter NCGA Introduces New Refuge Calculator House Passes Hunger-Free Kids Act R-CALF Wants FMD Proposal Withdrawn Organic Grain & Livestock Outlook Meetings Scheduled Kubota L-Series Gets More Muscle and Comfort Letter from Senators Draws Reaction NCBA and United Fresh Oppose Food Bill for Differing Reasons NCBA and United Fresh Oppose Food Bill for Differing Reasons More Reaction to Senate Passage of Food Safety Act HSUS Files Lawsuit Against Perdue Farms AEM Updates Mower Safety Manual Monks To Stop Farming At New Melleray After 160 Years Western Bean Cutworm Wasn't As Bad In 2010 Net Farm Income for 2010 Increases Net Farm Income for 2010 Increases Americans Using Internet More For Food System Information Press Conference Urges Estate Tax Reform Press Conference Urges Estate Tax Reform Mixed Reaction to Food Safety Passage Mixed Reaction to Food Safety Passage Final Grassland Reserve Program Rule Published Final Grassland Reserve Program Rule Published Time Running Short for Lame-Duck Action Ag Groups Send President Letter on Estate Tax Ag Groups Send President Letter on Estate Tax Farmers Prepare for 2011 Planting Season RFS2 Requirements Announced Growers Called to Action by ASA Online Crop Nutrition Guide Helps Growers Plan for 2011 PFI "Mini School" For Community Supported Agriculture USDA Announces Small Business Conference Most We Can Hope for is Short-term Tax Extension EPA Continues Crackdown On Livestock Feedlots Food Safety Bill Debate Possible in Senate Finalization of GIPSA Expected Soon Finalization of GIPSA Expected Soon Deere & Co. Reports Better Earnings Changes to Livestock Mandatory Reporting Today's Planters and Planter Maintenance Score Well Cost/Benefit Analysis of Forage Testing Is Favorable New Loader for Montana Model How Are Cost-Share Payments Calculated For Establishing a CRP Practice? How High Will Farmland Prices Go? Iowa Ag Groups Comment on Proposed GIPSA Rule House Committee Consolidation Proposed Pepsi Grant May Go to HSUS Pork Industry Center Offers PQA Advisor Recertification Mark Your Calendar for 2011 Triumph of Ag Expo Grants to Help Remote Areas Cut Energy Bills Conference Offers New Sales Opportunities for Farmer-Groups FFA Community Volunteers Shine Turkey Facts Legislature Chooses New Leadership For 2011 PFI Gets Grant To Provide Beginning Farmer Training Renewable Electricity Requirement Gains Support Plan Released to Reduce Debt and Deficit Survey Shows Iowa Land Values Up 13% Thank You Program Aimed at Farmers Sign-Up Deadline For CAP Is Dec. 9, 2010 Russia Sets Poultry Import Quotas Congress to Return to Lame Duck Session Thanksgiving Spotlight Shines On Real Farm Families Bulk Seed Treatment Just Got Quicker Poultry Cooking Tips Offered HSUS Says No Petition Drive Slated for Nebraska HSUS Says No Petition Drive Slated for Nebraska Earmarks Out for 112th Congress President Proclaims National Farm-City Week ISU Study On Ethanol Tax Breaks Stirs Controversy Food For Thought At Thanksgiving - Consumers Are Getting A Bargain GIPSA Takes Action Against Livestock Buyer GIPSA Takes Action Against Livestock Buyer Institute Wants Change in Organic Milk Production All-Wheel Steering from Unverferth Do Farmstead Windbreaks Qualify For CRP? CARB to Follow Purdue Study Michigan's Stabenow Now Senate Ag Committee Chair Black and Native Farmers Benefit From Bill U.S. Pork Feeling Impact of Mexican Trucking Dispute Onset Computer Adds New Soil Moisture Meter How Fall Tillage Affects Soybean Diseases Make Good Winter Feeding Decisions for Beef Cows Plan Insect Control Now Iowans Elected To Key Roles On National Biodiesel Board Iowa Corn Growers Form Student Advisory Team How Will Recent Elections Impact 2012 Farm Bill? EPA Delays E15 Decision Rural Utilities Receive USDA Loans Some Cap and Trade Issues May Be Discussed Cattlemen Should Focus on Careful Strategy Cattlemen Should Focus on Careful Strategy U.S. Dairy Producers Find Growth Opportunities Around The Globe Iowa State University Selects New Veterinary Medicine Dean Nearly Half of Iowans Surveyed Visit Iowa's Rivers and Streams NFU Briefs Ag Committee Members NFU Briefs Ag Committee Members NFU President Talks About Biofuels Policy NBB Elects New Leadership Tax Cuts on the Capitol Hill Bubble Pork Board Looking at 2011 Budget Priorities for Pork Checkoff AARP Special Airs Thursday Night on RFD-TV ISU Block & Bridle Club Adds Poultry Interest Group Iowa 2010 State 4-H Project Award Winners Announced CWT Assists with 1.8 Million Pounds of Cheese Export Sales Deficit Reduction Commission Draft Calls for Farm Subsidy Cuts Alternative Fuel Supporters to Visit Washington, D.C. Senator Pushing For EPA Vote Federal Food Assistance Working Well Fifth Justice-USDA Workshop Announced Small Improvements Make a Big Difference How To Reach Women Farm Owners Extension Hotlines Are Available To All Iowans Winners & Losers in the 2010 General Election Conservation Stewardship and Security Program Payments Issued Appalachian MOU Signed by USDA Honda Boosts Towing/Load Capacities for 2011 Big Red National Research Council Finds Shortcomings in Risk Report on NBAF National Pork Board Meets This Week Alliance Offers New Flotation Radial Crop Prices Are Definitely in a Demand-Driven Market IRFA Says Big Oil Lacks Credibility in Lawsuit Attacking E15 Live Call-In Show on GIPSA Rule to be Featured on RFD-TV Live Call-In Show on GIPSA Rule to be Featured on RFD-TV U.S. Red Meat Exports Continue Positive Trend U.S. Red Meat Exports Continue Positive Trend Farm Bureau Reports on Thanksgiving Feast Final Wetland Reserve Program Numbers Announced Farm Bureau Presses President on Ag Issues Final Funding Totals Announced Beachell-Borlaug Scholarship Application Period Open Buying Quality Seed Becomes Trickier These Days Copperhead Boots Protect From Snakes ISU Extension Meetings to Update Dealers of Ag Inputs Iowa Forage & Grassland Council Conference November 22-23 DeLaval Unveils More on Its Robotic Milking Rotary Dairy Management Inc. and America's Dairy Farmers Set the Record Straight Organizations Unite in Support of Sorghum Iowa Board OKs Talks On Grant For Cellulosic Ethanol Plant SCN is a Consistent Threat to Soybean Production In Iowa Fund-Raiser Helps Local 4-H Chapters Pork Producers Consider Change to Committee Structure 4-H Mobilizes Against World Hunger Alliance Aims to Tell Ag's Story New Forks for Compact Tractors Deficit Commission Offers Plan Japan is Third Largest Buyer of U.S. Soybeans 2010 Iowa Farm & Rural Life Poll Yetter Builds On-Target Tip Farmers Encouraged to Sign Up Early For CSP Rural Entrepreneurship Program Wows World Food Prize Visitors ISU Animal Science Prof Named to Meat Industry Hall of Fame Vilsack Addresses Farm Broadcasters Vilsack Addresses Farm Broadcasters JCB Offers 'All American' Skid Steer Loader Lineup Korean Free Trade Deal Stalls Korean Free Trade Deal Stalls NCBA Chooses Not to Join Lawsuit Portable Plasma from Lincoln ISU Gets New Grant to Support Organic Soil Research Putze Named ISA's New Director of External Affairs OCM Organizes Discussion of GIPSA Proposed Rule OCM Organizes Discussion of GIPSA Proposed Rule This Casts a New Light on Things GIPSA Analysis Released GIPSA Analysis Released Consider Adding Debt Carefully Consider Adding Debt Carefully Contest Challenges Student Cereal Scientists Latest USDA Crop Report Re-enforces Price Outlook Farmers Asking Congress to Fix Permit Requirements for Pesticides GIPSA Proposal Discussion Continues GIPSA Proposal Discussion Continues Researchers Work to Produce Fuel from Field Pennycress Ownership Change at Germplasm Company Studies of Rural Grocery Stores Released Grape Acres Are Continuing to Grow in Iowa Ag Drainage Coalition Names New Executive Director Trimble Makes it Flow Downhill House Ag Chair Not Too Concerned with Upcoming Move to Ranking Member More ECP Funds Available RFA Pushes For Advanced Biofuels Support Insect-o-Graph Can Improve Stored Grain Management Extension Workshops Will Discuss Farm Drainage Systems Fighting Cattle Fever Ticks is a Little Easier Fighting Cattle Fever Ticks is a Little Easier High Tunnel Production and Marketing Workshop Dec. 3-4 Park Manager and Cattle Producer Working Together ICON AG-10 Comes to the Farm ACRE Payments Being Made Conservation Program Dollars Released Bill Would Authorize Defense Department to Purchase Renewable Fuels APHIS Prepares Environmental Assessment Draft on Sugar Beets CWT Assists in 2.4 Million Pounds of Cheese Export Sales Ag Leader Unveils List of New Products Why Farm Tests Must Be Repeated Another Cold, Snowy Winter Ahead for Iowa? USDA's New BCAP Program Is Now in Effect October 2010 Was Much Warmer, Drier Than October 2009 Fall Harvest Prices & Crop Insurance Indemnity Payments Farm Credit Services Announces Strong Earnings SDS Meets It's Match In Longer Crop Rotations Voters Pass Land and Legacy Amendment In Iowa County Committee Elections Begin Friday Rules For Haying And Grazing CRP Land Prop B Passage Won't Change Strategy Rural America Has Spoken Condor G with Dry Box Northey Re-Elected Iowa Secretary Of Agriculture Iowan Inducted Into National 4-H Hall of Fame Iowa Department of Revenue Issues Property Assessment Limitations Dairy Cattle Antibiotic Residue Prevention Manual Available Free to Farmers Potential Virus Found in Switchgrass NCBA Expresses Mixed Feelings About Election Outcome Missouri Voters Pass Proposition B NanoCourier Transmitter Keeps Irrigators in Touch EPA Must Set Pollution Limits in Mississippi River and the Gulf ISU College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Alums Honored USDA to Fill Committee Appointments Explore The Amazing World Of Soils Election Will Change Ag Leadership Lame Duck Could Be Last Chance for Climate Change Legislation AMI Wants GIPSA Rule Withdrawn Researchers Working on Closed Fish Systems NRCS Announces Farm Bill Financial Assistance Program 2010 Results Pork Producers Recognize Today's Accomplishments, Plan for Tomorrow Increased Penalty for Improper Livestock Transportation Landoll Corporation Acquires Brillion Farm Equipment Flexxifingers To The Rescue Pork Checkoff Supports Return of McRib Nationwide After all The Rhetoric One Thing Left to Do...Vote Making the Scientist-Farmer Connection You Can Tune Into PFI's Fall Farminar Series More Than 800 SCN-resistant Soybean Varieties Available to Iowa Growers Cut Fertilizer Bill Biofuels Group Names New President USDA Announces CCC Lending Rates Watch For Upcoming USDA Farm Program Dates 'Flat, Hot, Crowded' Author Sets Tone for Science Meeting 'Flat, Hot, Crowded' Author Sets Tone for Science Meeting Microloan Funding to Boost Business for Rural Areas 2010 Iowa Crop Performance Tests Now Posted Online When to Sample for Nematodes on Corn - It Depends Report Shows Money Paid to the Dead Raw Horsepower on the Cheap What Happens to Seed in a Seed Corn Plant? Additional Disaster Payments For 2009 Soybeans Carefully Evaluate New Multi-trait Corn Hybrids Five Strategies For Managing Revenue Risks On Your 2010 Crop Enjoy Fall Weather - Take A Walk And Collect Some Soil Samples Farm Bureau to Work with New Congress ACRE Program Revenue Triggers Announced Blender Pump Decisions Make E15 Available in Iowa Farmers Face Rising Phosphate and Potash Prices GIPSA Rule Backed by NFU GIPSA Rule Backed by NFU Sniffing Out Bugs Automatically Community Food Projects Awards Made Rural Cooperative Incomes Down Organic Codes Being Established Report Shows Ethanol Can Be Cost Saving NCGA Membership at Record Level Wind-proof Tarp From Agricover Disaster Assistance Available To Soybean Producers Donate Grain to Support FFA - The Future of Agriculture Plan to Attend Iowa Organic Conference Nov. 22 at Ames New Technology Gives More Accurate Carcass Readings FDA Calls for More Food Safety Managers Center for Rural Affairs Provides Help Line Orange Labels Might Scare Motorists Integrated Crop Management Conference Set for December 1-2 Gift of $125,000 to Support Iowa 4-H Center Programs Forest Service to Improve Camper Safety DELAP Payments Being Made Grants Released for Specialty Crop Research FSIS Explains New Technology Testing Guidance FSIS Explains New Technology Testing Guidance Food Inspectors With Conflicts of Interest Farmers Urged To Participate In Market Simulation Game Warm Fall Temperatures, Winter Annual Weeds Favor SCN Tillage Is Not a Long-Term Solution for Soybean SDS Iowa Harvest Of 2010 Is Winding Down Quickly Final Rule For BioPreferred Program Announced USDA Paying for 2009 Moisture Damaged Crops Iowa Could Land Another Cellulosic Ethanol Refinery Field Fires Abundant In Iowa With Dry Weather This Fall Late-planted Corn Yields Surprisingly Well Dr. Cases Closes FFA Career Questions About Farming And Livestock Production? Ask a Farmer! Iowa Groups Say E15 Decision Is Small Step in Right Direction How Nitrogen Fertilizer Affects Energy Use in Corn Production Line Up Energy Shavers And Money Savers - Now Late-planted Corn Yields Surprisingly Well BCAP Announcement Receives Positive Reaction Biofuels Supports Announced Why Didn't My Land Get Accepted Into CRP? 2010 Iowa Farm and Rural Life Poll Results Available CRA Calls for Immigration Fix NFU Working With FFA Members Report Released on Recovery Act Programs Ohio Livestock Care Board Sets Penalties Changing Your Farming Practices Can Slow Phosphorus Runoff Alternative Ethanol Tax Credit Proposal Wal-Mart Launches Global Commitment to Sustainable Agriculture ISU Seed Science Center Gets Grant From Gates Foundation October Is Cooperatives Month - Support Your Local Co-op Fall Dry Fertilizer Applications Frogeye Leaf Spot Show Resistance to Fungicides Cell Phones Help African Farmers Beat Drought Beginning Farmer-Ranchers Funds Released Settlement is Reached in Keepseagle Case Stormy Weather Could Be Welcomed By Some Producers Ag Groups Withdraw from Leonardo Sustainable Ag Standard Development New Tool Focuses on Future Consumers New Options and Sizes From Krause Iowans Help Beef Checkoff Set Priorities for Coming Year Soybean Checkoff Committed to Meeting World Food Demand No Firm Association Between Colorectal Cancer and Beef No Firm Association Between Colorectal Cancer and Beef Iowa Bean Harvest Wrapping Up, Corn Harvest 66% Completed Wait Until Soil Temperature Drops Before Applying Anhydrous Ammonia Iowa Corn Growers Respond To Culver's Fertilizer Statement Canadian Packers Upgrade Beef Grading System Canadian Packers Upgrade Beef Grading System Canadian Packers Upgrade Beef Grading System Nation's Forests Hold Lots of Carbon Farm Bureau Urges Iowans To Vote "No" On Amendments New Top-Spin Pre-Cleaners FSIS Inspectors to be Paid FSIS Inspectors to be Paid Chicken Industry Leader To Retire Poll Shows Views On Iowa Water & Land Legacy Amendment NASCAR Upgrading Fuel to E15 2010 General Signup Increased Iowa CRP Acres USDA to Establish New NASS Center Rural Development Dollars Allocated Farmer Market Grants Announced Report Friendly to Diesel Energy Early Indications Are That Seed Quality Should Be Good Farmers Urged to Participate in Market Simulation Game Iowa Hunger-Fighting Contributions Top $9.38 Million This Year Collect bales with 2-Banger Buffett Commits $13 Million To Help World's Small Farmers Grassley Concerned with EPA's Limited E15 Decision USDA Establishes Behavioral Research Program Biomass Event Tackles Issues Transgenic Corn Suppresses Corn Borer, Saves Farmers Billions Bioasphalt Could Create New Market for Iowa Crop Residues Growth Energy Says EPA Decision is Important First Step Cause for Concern in Some Areas for Winter Wheat Fields of Hope Harvest Celebration In Central Iowa Oct. 16 Iowa Farmers Encouraged to Sign Up Early for CSP Iowa Farm Bureau Files Lawsuit Challenging EPC Ruling USDA Passes out Honors During National School Lunch Week Farmers and Ranchers Alliance Taking Shape Waiver for Use of E15 is Granted Rate Of Increase In Ag Productivity Lags World's Growing Needs Missouri Farmer Sets New World Record for Soybean Production Food From Livestock Plays Key Role in Combating World Hunger. Food From Livestock Plays Key Role in Combating World Hunger. Renewable Fuels Organizations Join Forces to Combat Anti-Ethanol Groups Recipes for Healthy Kids Challenge Announced Energy Use in Pig Production Is Focus of ISU Study USDA to Issue Annual Conservation Reserve Payments ASA Says It's Time to Talk With Candidates NGFA Opposes CRP Interim Rule What if Ears Had 50 Kernels Per Row? Congressmen Urge Obama to Take Administrative Action Depth of Manure Injection Does Count EPA Approves Iowa Rules to Protect High Quality Waters IDALS and ISU to Develop Statewide Nutrient Reduction Strategy Where Did Iowa's 2010 Corn Yield Go? E-15 Testing Done, Positive on Cars 2007 and Newer Iowa Corn Sponsors 'Be True to Your Fuel' Video Contest Iowa Cattlemen's Association Hires Communications Director Challenger Thicke Calls For A "New Vision" For Iowa Agriculture Incumbent Northey Seeks To Continue Working Hard For Iowa Agriculture Vermont's First Digester Online Economist Negative on GIPSA Rule Proposals What Is Fair Reimbursement For Destroying Tenant's Hay Seeding On CRP Land? Flooded Grain And Other Harvest Issues Haunt Some Farmers Iowa Corn and Soybean Growers Respond To USDA Crop Report Timely Guidelines For Fall Harvesting Of Forages Green Soybean Stems, Light Frost On Forages Raise Questions Dryer, Warmer Weather Could Bring Pockets of Drought NCGA Urges Growers to Make Grain Bin Safety a Priority Problem of Goss's Wilt Moving into Midwest Cresco Couple Fund ISU Internship for Borlaug Foundation You Can Be Part of Unique Program to Benefit Iowa FFA NRCS Extends Deadline Marketing Year Prices Cancel ACRE Payments In Iowa Animal Welfare Is Presenting Farm Groups With Uphill Battle Animal Welfare Is Presenting Farm Groups With Uphill Battle Dairy Industy Efforts to Improve Ag Image Iowa Senator Sees More Interest in Trade, Energy Credits in Republican-Led Congress Schaffert Improves Disk Design for IH Planters Russian Family Farms Is Topic for Oct. 18 Lecture at Iowa State Iowa Cropland Values Are Up 8.5% During Past 12 Months USDA Takes Part in 4-H National Youth Science Day Rockefeller May be Raising White Flag Prematurely NCGA Chairman Says Argument of Groups Opposing E12 is Nothing New Representatives Want Economic Analysis of Proposed GIPSA Rule Representatives Want Economic Analysis of Proposed GIPSA Rule Studying Aeration in Grain Bin Quality Control Forage Testing Project Open to Iowa Producers Zip It Up! Milk Cow Numbers Drop for First Month This Year Are You Suffering From SCN Creep? How Would You Know? Iowa Corn Is 19% Harvested, Soybeans 38% Harvested Vilsack To Headline Global Farmer Town Hall Meeting In Iowa Farm Bureau Urges Unified Effort to Fix Pesticide Regulation 4-H National Youth Science Day Focused on Water NCBA Echoes Temple Grandin's Animal Welfare Concerns NCBA Echoes Temple Grandin's Animal Welfare Concerns Marketing Year Prices Cancel ACRE Payments in Iowa Livestock Producers Urged to Be Safe When Pumping Manure From Pits Valley Irrigation Offers VRI Taxes Surrounded by Uncertainty Fall Tillage for Compaction Relief Researchers Report on Work in Mycotoxins Farm Bureau Wants 1099 Provision Dropped Committee Approves Beef Checkoff Initiatives For FY2011 Committee Approves Beef Checkoff Initiatives For FY2011 Saturn Offers Pair of New Waste Oil Heaters New Online Tool Helps You Explore Potential Markets Fall Is Great Time To Visit Iowa Apple & Pumpkin Farms Challenger Thicke Calls for a 'New Vision' for Iowa Agriculture Incumbent Northey Seeks to Continue Working Hard for Iowa Agriculture USDA Announces New Conservation Loan Program Flood Damaged Grain Is Considered Adulterated And Cannot Be Used For Food Or Feed VeraSun Attorneys Retract Demands For Farmer Payments Pay Attention To In-Field Corn Drydown Rates This Fall Lawyers Back Down in VeraSun Situation Seeing Big Opportunity for DDGS Market Growth, Council Brings Buyers to U.S. New Leadership Elected for RFA Bill Would Protect Farmers from CWA Permits NASS Could Upgrade Some Crop Numbers Nominate Your Local Fire Department Rescue Squad Farmers Need to Closely Check Anhydrous Tanks for Leaks Farm to Fork Tour Moran Wants Brakes Applied GIPSA Rule Proposal Moran Wants Brakes Applied GIPSA Rule Proposal National Biodiesel Board Still Working on Extension of Tax Credit Rural America Solutions Group Accuses EPA of Stifling Job Creation, Economic Growth Markup of Cuban Travel and Trade Bill Canceled Two Founders Inducted Into Iowa Hereford Hall of Fame Plot Corn and Soybean Strategy Cuban Trade Bill Considered by House Foreign Affairs Committee States Qualify for 2009 Crop Payments Forecast is for Mostly Dry, Wam Weather China Sets Higher Duties on U.S. Poultry NMPF Launches Foundation for the Future Web site Most Hog Producers and Packers Are Turning a Profit Iowa Academic All-Staters Credit 4-H's Role in Their Success PFI Starts Savings Incentive Program to Assist Beginning Farmers Energy Grants Announced Costs Run Up Behind Prices Mandatory Price Reporting Act Signed Mandatory Price Reporting Act Signed Mandatory Price Reporting Act Signed Legislation to Give Agriculture a Voice Introduced in Senate Wet and Dry Weather Causing Mixed Effect on Corn Crop Fall Crop Insurance Sales Closing Date Coming Up EPA Picks UK for New Watershed Center Combines Return To Fields This Week In Iowa John Deere Boosts Power on 8R Series Tractors Northey Elected Vice President of National Association of State Departments of Agriculture Iowa's Top Soil and Water Conservationists Recognized for 2010 FSA Has Grain Storage Facility Loan Program Enough Time To Plant A Cover Crop This Fall? Time Running Out For Child Nutrition Bill Reauthorization Renewable Energy Bill Introduced in Senate USDA Reports Smaller Hog Inventory USDA Reports Smaller Hog Inventory Filter Can Reduce Storm Water Runoff Agencies to Simplify SNAP Program Pick Apart Yield Reports Public Input Needed on Land Use Planning for Iowa Fall Versus Spring Tillage - Which Is Better? New Telematics Available for John Deere Equipment 57th Annual Farm Progress Show a Success 57th Annual Farm Progress Show a Success Senate Ag Committee Holds Hearing on EPA Small Business Bill Passes House VP Releases Report on Recovery Act Projects Two Universities Join in Energy and Environment Work Register Now to Take Part in 4th Annual Iowa Hunger Summit FSA Loans Available For Farmers with Weather Losses Dairy Industry Advisory Committee Continues Work President Says Economic Policy Needs More Time During Town Hall Meeting What Will Happen to Estate Tax is Really Up in the Air Not Much Progress at Congressional Hearing on Egg Recall Bayer Ramping Up Sustainable Food Technology Iowa Receives Big Grant From FDA Through Feed Safety Program Iowa Soybean Association Elects New Officers NMPF Releases A Farmer-Friendly Tool to Assist Dairy Producers in Developing Oil Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure Plans UTV Snowplows from THE BOSS Use and Interpret the Corn Stalk Nitrate Test Carefully Why it's Important to Test Forages Chinese Trade Could Result in Domestic Jobs NPPC Asks President To Resolve Trucking Issue Research Producing Healthier Soybeans Senate Committee Hearing to Focus on EPA and Agriculture New Round Cuts Offer Six More Value-Added Beef Options New Round Cuts Offer Six More Value-Added Beef Options Iowa's Top 4-H Livestock and Meats Judging Teams Announced Egg Recall: Iowa Farmers Share Public's Concern Harvest Weight Limit Increased For Trucks Hauling Grain In Iowa Valmont's Bender 30 Is Easy to Install Porter-Cable Adopts Lithium Batteries Crop Progress Well Ahead of Schedule for Corn, Beans More Cattle Go Into Feedlots Than Expected AFBF Backs Expanded Broadband Bill E15 Works Well With Older Cars Schuler Offers New Vertical Mixer Historic Biomass Harvest Taking Place This Fall in Iowa Governor Proclaims 4-H Week in Iowa October 3-9, 2010 NCGA Disappointed That USDA Picked Winners and Losers With Disaster Package Recipients of VeraSun Letter Must Respond By September 30 Sorghum Research Looks to Future Homegrown Eco Ultra Oils Save Petro-dollars Senate Fails to Pass Biodiesel Tax Credit Minimize The Amount of Corn You Leave on the Ground Midwest Dairy Association Joins Coalition to Support Iowa's Farmers Stalk Tests Before Harvest Worth Taking What Is The Definition Of "Failed Acreage" For FSA Purposes? Scout Corn Fields Now For Signs Of Stalk Rot Grain Quality & Storage Problems With 2009 Corn Just Won't Quit - And Now Here Comes 2010 Report Low Yields To Insurance Agent Promptly At Harvest Monsanto Is Holding 5-bean Per Pod Contest Again This Fall Vilsack Announces Special New Grower Assistance Programs Farm Input Costs Going In the Wrong Direction This Year NCGA Backs Name Change to Corn Sugar Schuler's New Feed Wagon is All Hydraulic Symposium Will Focus On Smallholder Farming Are You Interested in Planting Non-GMO Corn? Enrollment Increase Continues in ISU College of Agriculture Harvest Time Tips To Help Improve Your Crop Insurance Coverage Tri-Traction, Compaction Fighter From Reinke National Dairy FARM Program Enrollment Now Open Dollars Released for Renewable Energy Feasibility Studies Distillers Grains Will Be Focus at Export Conference Animal Traceability System Is Still Being Developed 21 Iowans Named to New I-LEAD Development Class Sprinkler Control via the Web FSA Signs Up More than 4 Million Acres into CRP Corn Genetic Mapping Helping Researchers Mild Weather is Expected for the Rest of This Week Budget for Next Farm Bill is Going to Be Tight Deere's Tillage Family Grows Doing a Good Job of Harvesting Corn Can Help Manage Soybean SDS Iowa Pork Industry Center to Offer PQA Plus Adviser Training Program Animal ID Rules Draw Nearer Animal ID Rules Draw Nearer Senninger's UP3 Upgraded to Easy-Clean/Change Capability EPA Okays Ford V-10 Irrigation Engine on Propane NCBA Legislative Conference Begins with Beef Nutrition NCBA Legislative Conference Begins with Beef Nutrition AFBF Delegation Getting Briefing on WTO Doha Round CRP Acreage Will be Announced Tuesday Corn And Soybean Harvest Speeding Up As Condition Declines Bayer CropScience Honors Farmers' Work Bayer CropScience Honors Farmers' Work Two-thirds Of Iowa Corn Crop Now Safe From Frost FDA Didn't Have All the Information from USDA in Egg Case Record Corn Crop Still Probable for 2010 Despite Decreased Yield Digital Camo Is Latest Miller Helmet Design Co-Products & Cornstalk Residue Cut Cow Feed Costs By A Dollar A Day Co-Products & Cornstalk Residue Cut Cow Feed Costs By A Dollar A Day Two Ways to Prevent Johne's Disease According to ARS Study Form 1099 Tax Law Will Be Addressed Tips to Help You Improve Crop Insurance Coverage During Harvest Iowa Farmers Enjoying Good Prices Heading Into Harvest Hobart Has Problem Solver Field Report: It Looks Like mid-October Out There! Sign Up for NAP Insurance for Forages By Sept. 30 USDA Announces New Loan Program For Soil Conservation Answers To Questions About Soybean Sudden Death Syndrome What Caused Tipping Back Of Kernels On Corn Ears? Iowa Corn Growers Elect New Officers Syngenta Seeds, Inc. to Sell All Soybeans by Seed Count in 2011 Biorefinery Gets Help In Replacing Fossil Fuels With Biomass United Fresh Conference Set for Next Week Nebraska Senator Wants to Ensure Producers Don't Suffer from GIPSA Rule Nebraska Senator Wants to Ensure Producers Don't Suffer from GIPSA Rule Dust Regulation Rears its Head Again Interim Director Appointed For Iowa Department of Natural Resources Keep These Thoughts in Mind About Controlling SDS in Soybeans Congressional Change in Leadership Could Impact Agriculture Thousands of Schools Signed Up for Fuel Up to Play 60 Program Groups Press for Senate Action on Food Safety Beef Council Restructuring Underway Beef Council Restructuring Underway Iowa Senator Has Questions Following Egg Recall Beef Capitalizes On The Power Of Lean Beef Capitalizes On The Power Of Lean Beef Checkoff's Retail Promotion Helps Extend Producer Investments Beef Checkoff's Retail Promotion Helps Extend Producer Investments World Food Prize Foundation Honors Kofi Annan in Ghana New Publication Helps Farmers Select Energy Efficient Fans Corn Harvest 2010 Is Beginning This Week In Iowa Deere and Hillco Team Up for Biomass Harvest New Player for 1000-gallon Sprayer Market USDA Honoring Civilian Ag Experts Corn Crop Coming Along Nicely ARS Conducts Study on Impact of Climate Change on Crop Yields Big Changes Could Be Coming to Dairy Industry Iowa Corn Growers Discuss Many Issues at Annual Meeting Iowa Farm Bureau Delegates Call for End to Direct Payments Deputy Ag Secretary Urging Congressional Passage of Child Nutrition Act Climate Change Regulations Being Prepared by EPA Energy Use, Fuel Demand Lower Kuhn Adds Conventional Plow FMC Corporation Announces Development and Distribution Agreement Afla-Guard Protects Corn, Too National Wilderness Month Set Iowa Corn Growers Association Announces Corn PAC Awards September 30 Deadline for SURE Program Applications SURE Signup Deadline Approaches For Payments How Accurate Are Pre-Harvest Corn Yield Estimates This Year? Consider Fertilizer and Weed Management Options Consider Fertilizer and Weed Management Options Research Could Change Conservation Programs Deadline to Apply for Watershed Improvement Grants Is October 1 The Tale of Two Seasons Considerations For Managing Crop Profit Margins In 2011 Czech Tire Company Is Building Ag Tire Production Plant In Iowa 2010 Was Iowa's Second Wettest Summer On Record Iowa Officials Tell Farmers - Don't Ignore VeraSun Letter Pork Board to Consider 2011 Budget Pork Board to Consider 2011 Budget Dollars Released for Genetic Breeding Programs Timing of Last Alfalfa Cutting Important Conservation Loan Funds Available Veal Video Draws Responses Veal Video Draws Responses Veal Video Draws Responses Sudden Death Syndrome Is Hot Topic Among Soybean Growers Monitor Late-Season Corn Diseases to Preserve Grain Quality Shell's New Coolant Lineup Touts Long Life New Farmland Leasing Book Available From ISU Extension New Iowa Commercial Pesticide Applicator Manuals Available Soon Action Taken Concerning GMO Sugarbeets Turning Up Heat on Corn-Based Plastics Poultry Research Findings Reported U.S. Pork Center of Excellence Launches Swine Science Online Iowa Landowner Participates in Special Conservation Buffer Project Pioneer Expanding IMPACT Program 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 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 Agco Presents Sunflower 6630 Vertical Till System 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 New Colorado Lab Opened Visit ISU Display To See How Giant Grass Meets Energy Needs Expect the Insects to be Out There Get Your Free Weed Identification Guide at 2010 Farm Progress Show Iowa Poultry Association Issues Statement on Voluntary Recall of Eggs 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? Taking the No-SCR Approach EPA Official Denies Ag is Being Targeted EPA Official Denies Ag is Being Targeted EPA Official Denies Ag is Being Targeted Pilot People's Garden School Program Announced Speaker Ready to Address Issues at Workshop Speaker Ready to Address Issues at Workshop Grants Available for Rural America Food Initiatives Learn About Health & Safety In Agriculture At Farm Progress Show Imaging Test Helps Identify Campylobacter Salford Unveils New Finance Program Kansas Oil Company Buys Two Iowa Ethanol Plants Iowa Farm Bureau Is Considering Shifting Its Stand on Direct Payments Clues to Cause of Salmonella Sought by FDA at Two Iowa Egg Farms Clues to Cause of Salmonella Sought by FDA at Two Iowa Egg Farms Sherrod Turns Down Vilsack's Job Offer SDS Growing Problem in Soybeans USDA-FFA Helping Statistical Education Push Continues for Workshop Attendance Push Continues for Workshop Attendance Push Continues for Workshop Attendance Distance Education Helps Ag Professionals Enhance Their Careers Can Cattle Grazing Be Compatible With Deer Habitat? 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? 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 to Control Western Bean Cutworm AutoFarm Unveils Envizio Pro Research Betters Ethanol Production Biomass Support Program Begins Billions Announced to Help Rural Businesses Speaker Defends Blue Dog Agreement Administration Considering Hike in Milk Price Supports Administration Considering Hike in Milk Price Supports Administration Considering Hike in Milk Price Supports Crop Counters Now in Fields, Making First 2009 Yield Estimates Are There Fields With Glyphosate-Resistant Ragweed in Iowa? Pumping it Forward New Holland boosts power for twin-rotor small-frame combine CCX770 Cob Harvester New from Vermeer The Joker Has Arrived SmartStax Corn Receives Japanese Import Approval Legislation Would Encourage Local Wind Investments USDA Funding Outreach Programs Food Safety Conference Scheduled Food Safety Bill Fails in House Health Care Reform Still Moving Iowa 4-H Foundation Kicks Off 60th Anniversary at State Fair Corn Growers Bring Issues to Iowa's Congressional Delegation Anti-Ethanol Groups Make Push Has Administration's Position on Ethanol Imports Changed? Third Hearing on Dairy Prices Held Third Hearing on Dairy Prices Held Canada Will No Longer Quarantine Swine for H1N1 Virus FAQ: Another Advantage for Enrolling In ACRE In 2009 2009 Leopold Center Research Results Released Beef Checkoff Returns $5.55 in Value to Iowa Producers Beef Checkoff Returns $5.55 in Value to Iowa Producers Senators Push for Higher Ethanol Blends Coalition Doesn't Want to See Antibiotics Ban Added to Pending Bills U.S. Sorghum Again Going to Mexico Entry Deadline for NCGA's National Corn Yield Contest Fast Approaching Minnesota Officials Pushing for Resuming NAIS Discussion Tips for Soybean Foliar Fungicide Applications in Cool, Wet Year August 3 Is Nomination Deadline for FSA County Committees Fungicide Becomes Hot Topic as Diseases Appear in Corn Changes Requested for Interim Final COOL Rule Changes Requested for Interim Final COOL Rule Changes Requested for Interim Final COOL Rule Changes Requested for Interim Final COOL Rule Changes Requested for Interim Final COOL Rule More Than $4 Million in Grants Awarded to Help Disabled Farmers and Ranchers Senate Ag Members Ask Glauber for Info Health Care Deal May or May Not Happen Papers on H1N1 Virus to be Released Papers on H1N1 Virus to be Released Seed Producer Launches Reduced Corn Refuge Program Guidelines for Late-Season Herbicide Application in Soybeans Grain Prices and Treatment Costs Affect Decision to Apply Fungicides Soybean Aphid Treatment Thresholds Clarified By ISU Entomologists Eyespot And Gray Leaf Spot Severity Continue To Increase In Iowa Corn Five New Rogator Models Introduced Feedlot Inventories Expected Below Last Year Feedlot Inventories Expected Below Last Year No Quick Fix to Wheat Basis Woes President Eases Pressure on Health Care Passage DOE-USDA Joint Funding Announced Green Jobs Waiver Comment Period Closes Seminar Set for Pork Producers Facing Economic Difficulties Diseases to Look for When Scouting Soybeans This Summer CNH Unveils Three-Prong Expansion Plan Tim Bierman Selected to Lead National Pork Board NASS Collecting Updated Data for Corn and Sorghum Congressional Oversight Panel Releases Report on Farm Loan Restructuring Options House Hears Testimony on Clean Water Restoration Act Fertilizer Cost Ails Stockers This Year Senate Ag Committee Holds Hearing on Climate Change Iowan Elected to NCGA Governing Board Concerns Continue About Herbicide Resistant Weeds in Iowa Case IH Announces CVT Option for Farmall Compacts Worksaver Adds New Tine Grapple A New Ranger and One That Runs on Electricity! FAQ: There are Few Good Excuses for not Signing up for ACRE Vilsack Announces Climate Change Study NFU President to Testify on Climate Change Dow and Monsanto Receive Trait Registration Dow and Monsanto Receive Trait Registration Ag Chairmen Want Crop Insurance Changes Farm Bill Dollars to Advance Biofuels Dairy Industry Support Requested AAMP Asks for More Info More Producers See Value in Joining Iowa Cattlemen's Association It's Time to Sample Fields for Corn Nematodes Compact Impact Sprinkler FAQ Do I need to have yields proven by Aug. 14 sign-up date? FAQ: Lower grain prices are making ACRE more attractive to farmers Report Explores Why Rural America Needs Public Health Insurance USGC Meeting in Full Swing Exports of Grain Tied to Meat Demand ACRE Signup Push Is On United We Serve Program Promoted USDA Responds to Drudge Report Northey Announces First Steps to Balance IDALS 2010 Budget How Well Do Bioreactors Remove Nitrates from Tile Drainage Water? Crushing Knife Roll Aids in Clean Fields AMI Takes Position on Food Safety Wild Horse Bill Passes House TB Topic of Discussion in Denver TB Topic of Discussion in Denver TB Topic of Discussion in Denver Health Care Faces Higher Costs NPB to Work on Tight Budget NPB to Work on Tight Budget Iowa Corn Growers Teaming-Up With Iowa and Iowa State Athletics Should Hail-Damaged Crops Be Sprayed With Fungicide? FAQ: Talking to your Landowners about ACRE NCBA Members Vote on Policies to Address Cattle Industry Challenges For Hillside Farming Why Tassel Size and Shape Matters Eating Pork Fights Type 2 Diabetes Tyson Cutting Back Pork Production Corn Quality Issues Continue In Bins This Summer Eyespot And Gray Leaf Spot Are Showing Up In Iowa Cornfields No Referendum for the Soybean Checkoff Trimble Acquires Farm Works Software Assets Growth Energy and NAEDA Support Higher Ethanol Blend USDA Announces Loans from Supplemental Appropriations Act Food Safety Hearing Held By House Ag Committee Dairy Rally Attended by Ag Secretary Dairy Rally Attended by Ag Secretary Younger Farming Couples Conference August 11-12 Should You Apply Foliar Fungicide for Soybeans? Guidelines Released for Response to Foodborne Disease Outbreak Deputy Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Named Deadline Nears for County Committee Nominations More Water Improvement Dollars Released Senators Want Breakdown of Cap-and-Trade Costs Eleven More Water Quality Wetlands to Be Built This Summer Check Your Fields - SCN Now Apparent on Soybean Roots FAQ: What are the ACRE Trigger Prices for 2009? Livestock Organizations Applaud No-Subsidy Ethanol Bill Beef Checkoff Posting Return of $5.55 Beef Checkoff Posting Return of $5.55 Bond Warns Farmers Will Bear Brunt of Cap and Trade Animal/Human Disease Center Discusses Mission Scab Busts Eastern Cereal Crops AFBF Opposes H.R. 2454 Iowa Grazing Conference Aug. 25-26 To Feature National Experts Considerations for Application of Soybean Insecticides and Fungicides What Kind of Aphids Are Attacking Your Alfalfa? USDA Farm Service Agency Announces New Livestock Indemnity Program Dow AgroSciences Announces Agreement to Acquire Pfister Hybrids Dow AgroSciences Announces Agreement to Acquire Pfister Hybrids House Rules Committee Hearing on Antibiotic Ban House Rules Committee Hearing on Antibiotic Ban House Rules Committee Hearing on Antibiotic Ban House Rules Committee Hearing on Antibiotic Ban Pioneer Launches New High-Oleic Soybean No Counter-cyclical Payments for Wheat, Oats and Barley Monsanto Invests In Developing New Technologies for Wheat Senate Ag Committee Appointments Announced Wheat Industry Applying Pressure for U.S.-Colombian Agreement Obama Administration Asks Americans to Prepare for H1N1 Obama Administration Asks Americans to Prepare for H1N1 Bush-Era Rule Limiting Farm Exports to Cuba Overturned Pork-Beef Exports Mixed Bag Pork-Beef Exports Mixed Bag Crazy Top Appears in Iowa Cornfields This Year Food Safety Official Named at USDA Funding Provided for Community Water and Wastewater Projects Hearing Held on Over-The-Counter Derivatives Ohio Livestock Care Legislation Ready for Voters Ohio Livestock Care Legislation Ready for Voters Ohio Livestock Care Legislation Ready for Voters Ohio Livestock Care Legislation Ready for Voters Second Dairy Buyout Set by CWT Second Dairy Buyout Set by CWT Twisted Whorls Showing Up on Some Corn Plants in 2009 Uneven Early-Season Growth Can Mean Uneven Tasseling Not Every Tassel Is Created Equal FAQ: FSA Extends 2009 Deadlines for Reporting Planted Acres, and More Decision Time Looming For Fungicide Applications On Corn Favorable Weather Forecast For Rest Of 2009 Growing Season Dig It with Land Pride Topcon Precision Ag Shows Off Olathe Headquarters Climate Change Legislation on Hold Several Immigration Controls Proposed Ag Secretary Names FSA Administrator House Passes Ag Appropriations Bill New Chairman for ISU Department of Ag Education and Studies Upper Midwest Manure Handling Expo July 22 Is First Time in Iowa A QuickSwitch Disc Harrow ASA Has Concerns About Bioenergy Program World Fertilizer Outlook Released Senator Wants Change in Cap-and-Trade Amendment on Information Sharing Denied Recommendations on Immigration Reform Announced Soy Transportation Coalition Publishes Semi-Truck Weight Analysis Forum Shares ISU Research on Farmer Use of Conservation Loans Go Dustless and Remote Pioneer Hi-Bred Announces New North Carolina Research Center Doug Caruso Resigns as USDA FSA Administrator Secretaries Testify on Climate Change New Livestock Indemnity Program Begins New Livestock Indemnity Program Begins New Livestock Indemnity Program Begins New Livestock Indemnity Program Begins CFTC Hearing Announced National Corn Yield Contest Deadline Ahead Soybean Checkoff Partners With World Food Prize Are Those Japanese Beetles in Your Field, or Some Other Bug? Food Safety Working Group Release Findings Iowa Corn Entering Tassel Stage, Soybean Crop Also Looks Good Dairy Export Incentives Announced Dairy Export Incentives Announced New Enforcement Approach for Immigration Focuses on Employers Aid For Trade Will Help Developing Countries Exit Economic Crisis Yetter Upgrades Titan All-New Front-End Loader from Buhler Turn Round Bales Into Cash Shell Offers Energy Efficient Hydraulic Fluid ISU Economist Sees Upbeat Future for Agriculture Answers to Questions About Foliar Fertilization of Corn and Soybeans Deere & Company Set to Grow Russia Business Aussie Tractor Trekkers Make Ohio Food Prices Keep Sliding Lower Countries to Change Focus on Food Aid 2009 Corn Acreage Is Second-Largest in U.S. Since 1946 Iowa Soybean Association Responds to USDA Acreage Report Meat, Poultry Production Slide Slows Meat, Poultry Production Slide Slows Meat, Poultry Production Slide Slows Time to Get Serious About Scouting for Disease FAQ: ACRE provides risk protection for revenue - price and yield Load in Under Four Feet Iowa Feedlots 'Feel the Heat' As Cattle Death Loss Hit Last Week What's Going On In Your Fields This Summer? Potential for Ethanol Looks Good if Things Play Out Right Higher Highway Weight Limits Ahead? Pork Producers Urged to Review Withdrawal Standards Pork Producers Urged to Review Withdrawal Standards FEEL Clinic Offers Basics of Crop Plant Diagnostics ISU Extension Selects Regional Directors in Restructuring Plan Bayer CropScience and DuPont Expand Collaboration With Broad License Agreements CSP Signup Expected Soon Michigan Legislators Pushing for Livestock Standards Michigan Legislators Pushing for Livestock Standards Michigan Legislators Pushing for Livestock Standards Michigan Legislators Pushing for Livestock Standards R-CALF USA Calls for National Disease Strategy, Not NAIS R-CALF USA Calls for National Disease Strategy, Not NAIS Nestlé Cookie Dough Samples Confirmed With E. Coli Senate Plans to Move on Climate Change More Than $5 Million Available for Water Quality Improvement Projects Want to Show a Steer in Governor's Charity Steer Show? EPA Further Extends Comment Period on RFS Broadband Initiative Launched Rural Tour Launched by Obama Administration Corn-Fed Beef Trade Mission Wraps Up in Korea Corn-Fed Beef Trade Mission Wraps Up in Korea More Corn Fewer Soybeans No Surprise to Lanworth Graves Proposes Bill for Accelerating Energy Projects Climate Bill's Progress Delights Obama Leopold Center and Drake University Launch Land Tenure Project Weeds Are Winning the Battle in 2009 - Plan Now for Next Year Iowa Electric Co-ops Urge Balanced Solution To Climate Change Summer Sun Is Encouraging Iowa Crop Development The Aussies Have Landed – with Tractors! Tail End Charlie: A Champion Traveler Fescue Research Progressing Fescue Research Progressing Program Brings Soybeans Closer to Consumers FAQ: How will you prove your yields for ACRE? USDA Launches New Recovery Act Web Site Group Praises Congress for Action on Indirect Land Use Agencies Investigate Salmonella Contamination Statewide Corn Grower Discussions to Explore Issues June 30 Is Final Date to Report 2009 Crop Acreage Aphids Already Showing Up in Young Soybeans Northey Asks Vilsack to Help Struggling Pork Producers FAQ: ACRE Calculator Workshops Are Week Of July 13 Canada Ramps up DDGS Use New Flexwing Rotary Cutter Stress Will Show Up If It Turns Dry Insurance Firms Announce Alliance Will House Vote on Climate Change Friday? Several Different Positions on Climate Change Bill Companies Collaborate to Beat Soybean Nematodes Farm Progress Announces New Business Unit Upper Midwest Manure Handling Expo Set for July 22 at Boone Take Time for Sprayer Cleanup FAQ: Should I use 'plug yields' for ACRE? Rural America Solutions Group Speaks On Climate Change Legislation Farm Bureau Can't Support Climate Change Bill Hearing on Farm Bill Implementation Held by House Ag Subcommittee Ohio Lawmakers Back Constitutional Amendment on Animal Care Ohio Lawmakers Back Constitutional Amendment on Animal Care Ohio Lawmakers Back Constitutional Amendment on Animal Care Ohio Lawmakers Back Constitutional Amendment on Animal Care Soybean Aphids Could Be Just Around the Corner Pork Information Gateway Web Site is Improved Pork Information Gateway Web Site is Improved Students Display Biorenewable Ideas at ISU Senate Releases Report on Excessive Wheat Speculation Farm Futures See Corn Acres Down 3% Peterson, Waxman Reach an Agreement on Energy Bill Growth Energy Pleased with Energy Secretary's Support of Ethanol HUD Joins USDA Effort by Launching Recovery Act Web Mapping Tool EPA Officials to Visit Iowa Appropriation Bills Show Upward Spending Trend NRCS Announces Grassland Reserve Program Sign Up for Iowa Take Advantage of Iowa Hay and Straw Directory Soybean Checkoff Seeks Review of International Marketing Efforts New Climate Change Cost Analysis Released Doha Talks to Move Forward Nestlé Recall Causes Officials to Search Possibilities Pork Producers Making Small Production Cuts Pork Producers Making Small Production Cuts Still Planting Soybeans in Southeast Iowa Study Results Released on Weed Control in Roundup Ready Systems South Korea Free Trade Deal Still Pending South Korea Free Trade Deal Still Pending Pump up Glyphosate Performance Biofuels Development Could Be Hurt By Clashing Policies NFU Calls on CFTC Chairman Gensler for Commodity Market Investigation House Ag Committee Approves FY2010 Appropriations Bill Saturated Fats Are Important Part of a Healthy Diet New High Capacity Offset Mower European Corn Borer Numbers Are Up in 2009 Some Farmers Now Discovering Winter-Injured Hay Fields Rotator Replaces Impact FAQ: Your ability to bear risk enters into ACRE decision Hail Has Pounded A Number Of Iowa Fields Don't Let Potato Leafhoppers Burn Alfalfa Hay Time To Scout Corn For Rootworm Larvae Purdue study: CAFO impacts a mixed bag in communities Purdue study: CAFO impacts a mixed bag in communities Purdue study: CAFO impacts a mixed bag in communities Farmland Preservation Hit by Budget Squeeze President Wants New Financial Regulations Ag Groups Battle Food Safety 'Overkill' Two Threats to Agriculture Moving in Congress Brazil Conducts Sting at JBS and Others Brazil Conducts Sting at JBS and Others New Members Appointed to State Soil Conservation Committee Strawberry Season Arrives in Iowa Officials Saying Hog Surveillance Could Be Difficult Officials Saying Hog Surveillance Could Be Difficult Organic Agreement Reached with Canada USDA Wants to Hear More on Animal ID Issue USDA Wants to Hear More on Animal ID Issue Groups Claim New Bill is 'Property Grab' Groups Claim New Bill is 'Property Grab' Vilsack Taps Veteran to Head Forest Service GX1117 Offers Large Capacity and Flexibility Rural Water Projects Get $123 Million from USDA Iowa FFA Chapters Claim State Championships for 2009 Three New Board Members Chosen to Advise Leopold Center Hay Acres Will Stay About the Same DuPont Files Answer to Monsanto Lawsuit Pioneer, Beck's to Team Up for XL New Player Moves into Seed Treatment Market Climate Change Study Updates Ag Info Land Values Appear to Hold Strong Where Will We Get New Scientists? Climate Change Bill Vote Expected Soon Bill to Improve Food Safety Introduced Canadian Pork Producer Culls Herd Because of H1N1 Canadian Pork Producer Culls Herd Because of H1N1 Support for Biodiesel Continues to Grow Iowans Eligible to Apply for $242,700 in Specialty Crop Funds Center at Ames Updates Pork Information Gateway Website FAQ: Certify your planted acres with FSA by June 30 Another Ethanol Group Joins Growth Energy Report 2009 Crop Acreage to USDA Farm Service Agency by June 30, 2009 Preconditioning Could Help Calf Profitability Preconditioning Could Help Calf Profitability Vilsack Discusses Projects for Wood-to-Energy and Biomass Utilization Shell Oil Selling CE10 Vilsack Appoints Deputy Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs Animals Not Responsible for H1N1 Outbreak Animals Not Responsible for H1N1 Outbreak Weigh In on This Spring's Cool and Wet Weather Favors Seedling Diseases More Grain Under the Big Top Farm Bureau Opposes Clean Water Restoration Act Pressure to Make NAIS Mandatory Pressure to Make NAIS Mandatory Pressure to Make NAIS Mandatory Pressure to Make NAIS Mandatory Ag Groups Still Focused on Climate and Energy Legislation More ARRA Funds Released County Committee Nominations Open Meat and Poultry Industry Big Contributor to U.S. Economy Meat and Poultry Industry Big Contributor to U.S. Economy Meat and Poultry Industry Big Contributor to U.S. Economy Harkin Calls on Officials to Push for Lift of Bans on U.S. Pork Harkin Calls on Officials to Push for Lift of Bans on U.S. Pork WPX Attendance Down but Participation Strong WPX Attendance Down but Participation Strong New Test Available for Angus Influenced Cattle Keep Your Scouting Manual Handy McCormick Upgrades Its CX Tractor Line Spray Drift Potential Increases During Warm Weather Applications Soybean Rust Is Stirring in Southern States Diagnose Corn Seedling Damage From Anhydrous Ammonia Cool Weather Makes Corn More Sensitive To Postemergence Herbicides Waxman-Markey Bill Discussed in Ag Committee Spread of H1N1 Virus Officially a Pandemic USMEF Reports Pork-Beef Export Numbers USMEF Reports Pork-Beef Export Numbers USMEF Reports Pork-Beef Export Numbers Food Processors Fee Passes House Panel 4-H Flag Going on Space Mission Manure Bill Signed Into Law Is Great News for Iowa's Cattle Industry Register Your Sensitive Crops and Honeybee Hives With IDALS Now Ethiopian Scientist Wins 2009 World Food Prize Syngenta Acquires Bio-Control Technology Ag Subcommittee Holds Stimulus Hearing Hobbie Speaks at International Grains Conference Rural Development Grants Released Cap and Trade Study Released New Technology Opens Door for Bio-based Motor Oils ISU Names New Head of Ag Entrepreneurship Initiative Raven Offers SmartRow and AccuRow NAIS Listening Session Held in Show-Me State NAIS Listening Session Held in Show-Me State NAIS Listening Session Held in Show-Me State NAIS Listening Session Held in Show-Me State Indirect Land Use Hearing Held EPA Issues Stay on Permitting Grassley Looks to GIPSA Attorneys to Keep Anti-Competitive Behavior at Bay USTR Issues Cairns Statement AFBF Letter Supports Broadband Access Iowans Encouraged to Take Advantage of Farmers Markets Iowa Barn Tour June 13-14 to Feature 14 Northwest Iowa Barns Monsanto, BASF Scientists Disclose Discovery of Gene Conferring Drought Tolerance In Corn Plants RFA Talks About RFS Hearing and Life-cycle Workshops USDA Meets Obama's Biofuels Directive Dairy Farmers Receiving Early Payments Dairy Farmers Receiving Early Payments Immigration Legislation May Happen Leaders Balk at Obama Request for H1N1 Vaccine Funding Major Fall Trade Shows Scheduled EPA Banning Use of Furadan Insecticide on Crops Report 2009 Crop Acreage to USDA Farm Service Agency by June 30, 2009 Plenish High Oleic Soybean Oil Offers Trans Fat Solution Plenish High Oleic Soybean Oil Offers Trans Fat Solution Grassley Wants to 'Show and Tell' EPA Regulation Writers Potential Benefits of Pending FTAs Studied On Recent Trip Indirect Land Use Will Not Be In Final EPA Proposal More Support for Agriculture in Cap and Trade Bill FAS Reports on Colombian Biofuels Industry Western Iowa No-tillers to Hold Field Day June 16 Time to Use Late Spring Soil Nitrate Test for Corn Some Iowa Corn Showing Early Signs Of Stress Stalk Borers Forecast To Begin Moving Into Corn Beware Of Corn Size Restrictions For Applying Postemergence Herbicides Electric Service Improvements Funded by USDA NFU President Meets with Ag Secretary Lucas Asks Ag Secretary for Specifics on Cap and Trade Another USDA Deputy Undersecretary Named Armyworm, Wireworm Are Attacking Some Cornfields In Iowa Additional Electronic Trading Hours at CBOT Timely Application of Postemergence Herbicides Pays Dividends Webcast June 15 to Help Iowa Growers Make Farm Program Decisions Mathematical Models Help Predict Corn Production This Is Not A Happy Time For Pork Producers This Is Not A Happy Time For Pork Producers Hog Producers Face At Least Another Year Of Losses Hog Producers Face At Least Another Year Of Losses Steps You Can Take to Manage Spray Drift Congress to Review Request for Additional Funding to Fight Flu Pandemic Virus Requires Changes at World Pork Expo Virus Requires Changes at World Pork Expo NPB Moving Forward with Programs NPB Moving Forward with Programs Emergency Action Plan Tool Announced at WPX Emergency Action Plan Tool Announced at WPX Iowa Gov. Culver Says Obama Voices Support for Biofuels Biofuels Financial Conference to Focus on Financial State of Ethanol Industry Peterson Wants Ag Issues Resolved in Clean Energy Bill Senate Ag Committee to Discuss Derivatives, Speculation House Starts Work on Food Safety Overhaul Practical Farmers of Iowa Announces Field Day Line Up for 2009 Iowan Named to National Animal Ag Alliance Board Outer Continental Shelf Renewable Energy Meetings Scheduled Secretary Vilsack Announces Two Conservation Programs USTR Ron Kirk Travels to Russia to Discuss Trade Issues H1N1 Now Confirmed in All 50 States Check Root Health When Assessing Corn Stands Appropriations Take Center Stage in Washington Positive Bovine TB Test in Nebraska Positive Bovine TB Test in Nebraska Study Shows Impact of E15 Pork Checkoff Announces Leadership Program Participants Pork Checkoff Announces Leadership Program Participants USB and Soybean Checkoff Announce See for Yourself Participants Beef Recalls Announced Beef Recalls Announced New Resolution Raises Cattle Age Limits New Resolution Raises Cattle Age Limits Minnesota Senate Seat in Court's Hands Iowa Corn And Soybean Crops Off To A Great Start New Statistics Show Big Increase in Iowa Soil Conservation Efforts BASF and DuPont Sue Each Other for Patent Infringement Illini Tractor Pullers Take Overall Design Competition Award What To Do With Weedy Corn And Soybean Fields Eastern Corn Belt Far Behind Planting Pace Chinese Pork Professionals Training in U.S. Chinese Pork Professionals Training in U.S. Pork Safety Committee Shows Support for Safe Feed/Safe Food Program Pork Safety Committee Shows Support for Safe Feed/Safe Food Program AMI Informs Canadian House of Commons of Food Safety Progress Iowa NRCS Extends Organic EQIP Signup Senate Ag Committee Hearing on Derivatives Set Census Report Reflects Watershed Boundaries USDA Releases Livestock Income Figures Annual Milk Production Reported Annual Milk Production Reported New Tool Helps Corn Growers Make Better Cutworm Control Decisions FAQ: 2009 Farm Program Web cast set for June 15 BASF Sponsors Safety Training for Ag Pilots Dairy Industry Holding Rally Dairy Industry Holding Rally Deadline for Specialty Crop Assistance Funds Senators Attempt to Bring Climate Change Legislation to Floor President Responds to Biofuels Coalition ISU Predicts Cutting Dates For Black Cutworm On Corn Judith Canales Named to Rural Development Post Ag Secretary Announces $143 Million to Improve Infrastructure Across Rural America Hot Weather to Benefit Plains USDA Needs Your Cooperation to Gather Information on 2009 Crops Iowa Department of Ag's 2009 Budget Information Available Online Time To Scout For Soybean Seedling Diseases Online Tickets Available for 2009 Farm Progress Show Additional NAIS Listening Sites Named Rural Mental Health Study Released Growing Support for Biodiesel President Releases ARRA Funds for Energy Increased Costs for Food Production Facilities Under Proposed Legislation Benefits of No-Till Shown Through Field Study Survey of FFA Members Shows Iowa's Future Is in Good Hands Grasslands: The Future of Sustainable Agriculture We Test Drive Miller's Portable Plasma Cutter Load in Under 4 Feet! Broadband Strategy for Rural America Released Farmland Equipment Sales Slump To Lowest Level in Four Years Increased Production Goals in Morocco Opens Doors for U.S. Grain EPA Looks at Alternative Energy Production Biodiesel Safety a Priority Science Based Comments Being Prepared on RFS Floss Elected Board President of Iowa Livestock Coalition Learn How to Get Started Grass-Feeding Beef at PFI Field Day Delivering The Mash Goodyear Goes Off-road Europe Upset over USDA Export Allocation Move Europe Upset over USDA Export Allocation Move Comment Time Extended for E15 Request FAQ: Does cash rent landlord have to sign POA form? Ag Marketing Resource Center Assists Farmers Applying for Grants DNR Will No Longer Send Reminders to Livestock Producers Colombia Trade Gets Farmer Scrutiny Quick Change Artist from Kuhn House Committee Approves Climate Change Bill NPPC Supports Passage of Panama FTA NPPC Supports Passage of Panama FTA Send Your Comments to EPA Supporting Higher Ethanol Blends Senators Introduce Bill to Help Livestock Farmers Stay Competitive Late Planting Doesn't Require As Many Seeds Per Acre AutoFarm Unveils Envizio Pro FAQ: Certification and 'planted acre' calculations are very important Midwest Farmland Values Plummet Livestock Marketing Fairness Act Introduced Livestock Marketing Fairness Act Introduced Renewable Power Passes Key Test RFS2 Under Review Grassley Introduces Companion to Peterson's Bill to Protect Biofuel Industry U.S. - Panama FTA Under Scrutiny New Food Safety Web Site Launched How To Control Volunteer Corn Now Popping Up In Fields Cyclone Power Pullers Build 4-Engine 'Wild CYde' Tractor Register Now for June IBC Cattle Feeders' Conference Brinsea's New Incubator NFU Backs Increasing Ethanol Blend in Gasoline Early Season Weeds Are Already Competing With Crops ISU Researcher Ready to Produce Vaccine for H1N1 Flu Virus in Swine Soybean Checkoff Referendum Petition Circulates Could Soybeans Be Headed for 'Uncharted' 7.6 Million Acres? Study Shows Biotech Crops Good for the Environment Company Expands Wheat Milling Capacity U.S. Dairy Industry Groups Urge Passage of Cuba Trade Bills Milk Industry Unites Against Proposed Tax on Chocolate Milk Milk Industry Unites Against Proposed Tax on Chocolate Milk Important VeraSun Deadline Approaching Gensler Nomination Ratified House Members Speak Out Against Energy Plan South Koreans Turn Out H1N1 Vaccine President Announces New Energy Guidelines Plan to Attend 4-State Dairy Conference at Dubuque Iowa-Illinois to Host National Value-Added Ag Conference Ag Manufacturers Make the Right Connections Ag Manufacturers Make the Right Connections FAQ: How to use county "plug yields" from FSA CWT Auditors Start Taking Cows off Farms Beef Board Outlines Recommended Budget Beef Board Outlines Recommended Budget USDA Seeks Applications to Repair Rural Housing Farm Works Rolls Out New Web Site Iowa Corn Planting Is Now 90% Complete, Soybeans 41% EPA's Proposed Rules a Mixed Bag for Iowa Ethanol and Biodiesel More Opposition to Current Climate Legislation EPA Extends Comment Period WHO Meeting Focusing on H1N1 Flu H1N1 Virus Mapped Funds Released to Protect Private Forests Polaris Offers New Palette of Limited Edition Models AFBF PAL Class Announced Gestation and Veal Crates Banned in Maine USDA Funding Rural Community Facility Projects NCGA Concerned with Contents of Climate Change Bill Will You Trade, or be Capped? WHO Counters Virus Source Statement Vilsack Names New Deputy Administrator and Others Guest Worker Legislation Introduced REG Signs Agreement to Buy Three Biodiesel Plants EPA Action on Furadan Insecticide Basically Bars Its Use Thunderstorm Season Adds Another Risk to Corn Should You Replant A Disappointing Corn Stand? ISU Economist Provides Short-Term Outlook For Corn And Soybean Prices Canadian Officials Confirm Another BSE Case China Investing in Agriculture Production NFU Wants Action on Climate Change Peterson Introduces Legislation to Protect Domestic Biofuel Industry Bobcat Digs It With American-made Excavators USDA Now Has Cash Rent Data for Your County USDA Extends Certain Conservation Reserve Program Contracts Kuhn Offers Beefed-up Rotary Rakes FAQ: FSA clarifies how to prove your yields for ACRE Synchronized Biotech Introduction is Goal for Wheat Groups FAQ: FSA Releases More ACRE Rules Tote That Bale With DewEze 165ss Scan-Kleen Filters Wash Easily CWT Announces Largest-Ever Herd Retirement Senate Blocks Confirmation of Interior Nominee Lucas Has Cap and Trade Concerns Democrats Relax House Emissions Bill Human Error May Have Caused H1N1 White House Food Safety Working Group Meeting Held U.S., EU Sign Beef Deal CSIF Marks Five Years of Serving Farmers, Communities Deadlines to Apply for USDA Value-Added Ag Grants Ground Beef Recall Announced CWT Announces Largest-Ever Herd Retirement Secretary Appoints Another Deputy Undersecretary New Ethanol Plant Begins Producing Near Grand Junction Iowa Corn Opportunities Announces Strategic Investment WASDE Confirms Strong Grain Markets Conditions Paradis to Serve as Administrator of Food and Nutrition Service EPA Says Indirect Emissions is Law EPA Administrator Testifies at Senate Hearing DuPont Receives Canadian Regulatory Approval for High Oleic Soybean Trait Iowa Has 81% Of Corn, 21% Of Soybean Planting Completed Ag Secretary Holds Rural Community Forums RFA Speaks Out About Greenhouse Gas Emission Rules TV For Women Farmers and Ranchers Introduced Ag Education Planned for Urban Reporters Canadian H1N1 Herd Culled New AMS Administrator Announced Where Are the Bean Leaf Beetles? More to the Story of Mapping the Cow Genome Outback Offers New Big Screen Sign-up Starts May 11 for Organic Farming Assistance Program Time to Zap Winter Annual Weeds and Protect Crop Yields Whole Genome Not the Whole Story Pork Board Working to Reinforce That Pork is Safe to Eat OMB Provides Insight into President's Ag Budget Proposal States Receive Grants to Strengthen National School Meals Programs Census Data Broken Down by Congressional District NMPF To Form Strategic Planning Task Force To Examine Solutions To Dairy Challenges Researchers Find Better TSE Test Hog Operating Losses Have Skyrocketed Since H1n1 Virus Does Starter Fertilizer Become Less Critical Later in Season? Don't Limit Bean Yield By Planting On Soils Too Wet Take Time To Check Corn Stands As Young Plants Pop Up Feds Ready H1N1 Contingency Plan for Hogs and Poultry Start Watching For Cutworms When Corn Emerges Pigs and People May Soon Eat Their Way to Flu Resistance More Iowans Claim Prizes in Iowa Corn Fed Sweepstakes WASDE Report Changes Announced USDA Offers Rural Development Loans and Grants AFBF Not Happy with US-EU Beef Agreement Senate Committee Holds Cap and Trade Hearing Farm Bureau Asks for Section 32 Support for Pork Russia Continues to Manipulate Pork Imports CWT Bid Period Closes US-EU Beef Agreement Doesn't Do Enough Vilsack Meets With Dairy Producers Bovine Genome Map Already Helps Producers EPA Scientific Advisory Panel Report on Optimum AcreMax 1 House Holds Hearing On Indirect Land Use Change USDA Under Secretary for Natural Resources Named More Staff at USDA Announced New GIPSA Director Announced DFA Representatives Get Reassurances from Secretary USDA Sets Aside Funds for Lawsuit Settlement Outback 185 Takes Power to the Job Site Plant Beans Following Beans to Get Rotation Back in Order? Farm Bureau: 2009 Iowa Legislature Addressed Some Urgent Issues EU and US Reach Provisional Agreement in Beef Dispute New Food Inspection Directive Released Time to Settle Pigford - Glickman Case Bovine Genome Map Already Helps Producers Bovine Genome Map Already Helps Producers First Step Toward Resolving Two Decade Beef Dispute H1N1 May Impact Beef Too Despite Sick Pigs H1N1 Seems to be Winding Down House Ag and Homeland Security Committees Review Nation Animal ID Weather Has Delayed Field Work in Corn Belt Forestland Dollars Released EPA Proposes Renewable Energy Goals Deadline Is June 1 to Apply for Iowa Century Farm Program 2009 Iowa Legislature Adjourns - Summary of Ag Related Bills Horse Slaughter Bill Now Montana Law ISU Says California Law Negative to Corn Pork Industry Asking USDA for Help Seven Sites Selected for National Animal ID Listening Sessions Seven Sites Selected for National Animal ID Listening Sessions Seven Sites Selected for National Animal ID Listening Sessions Seven Sites Selected for National Animal ID Listening Sessions Seven Sites Selected for National Animal ID Listening Sessions Monsanto Files Lawsuit Against DuPont, Pioneer Funds Available to Support Organic Farming USDA, EPA and DOE Form Biofuels Interagency Working Group H1N1 Winding Down Despite Sick Pigs Beef Could Be Impacted by H1N1 Petition to Request Checkoff Referendum Put Forward Rural America is Underinsured R-CALF Encourages Participation in Listening Sessions Iowa Corn Planting Now 60% Complete Statewide Don't Be Misled - Early Planting of Soybeans Is Important in Iowa Baucus to Introduce Cuban Trade Bill Results of How Farmers Are Viewed Released Flu Found in Canadian Pigs Budget Cuts Force Major Restructuring of ISU Extension Pay Attention to Soil Crusting After Heavy Rain Financial Strain Expected Due To H1N1 Influenza AAA Dismayed at Animal Rights Groups CRP Extension Available for Many Expiring Contracts National Animal ID Listening Sessions Set Pork's Return to Profitability Likely to Take Longer Why Dow AgroSciences Technology Is Big Step Forward Iowa Corn Growers Encourage You to Send Comments To EPA More Seed Treatments Being Used on Beans Be Safe When Operating Farm Equipment on Public Roads Farm Bureau Supports Raising Blend Wall New Manure System Exceeds Environmental Standards Another Name for H1N1 Virus Hormone Free U.S. Beef to EU? Rural America Solutions Group Formed Iowans Urged To Help Prevent Spread of 'New Flu' To Hogs EU May Accept U.S. Beef USDA Helps North Dakota Livestock Industry Subcommittee Investigates Civil Rights at USDA Ag Department Appointments Reviewed Thursday Alert Level is One Notch Below Pandemic NFU, NCGA Favor Cap and Trade System New Glyphosate Resistance Stewardship Guide Available World Pork Expo in Des Moines June 3-5, 2009 2010 Budget Resolution Passes Out of Congress USDA Issues 100 Day Report Grants Are Available to Help Rural Businesses Dow AgroSciences Confirms Precise Genome Modification in Maize Weather Causes More Spring Planting Delays Flu Continues to Spread Beyond North America Black Farmers Protest at USDA American Grown Goodness Program Begins Canada Begins WTO Action Against U.S Wildlife Habitat Incentive Program Cutoff Is May 15 Experts to Speak at Central Iowa Wind Energy Conference COOL Being Challenged By Canada COOL Being Challenged By Canada COOL Being Challenged By Canada Broadband Grant Applications Being Accepted Rural Water Projects Announced Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program Funds Available Good Start to Corn Planting Baseless Bans of U.S. Pork Have Already Happened Government Watching North American Influenza Situation Beware of Planting Restrictions Following 2,4-D Applications Early Planting and Soybean Disease Considerations Water Research and Development Act Passes House NSP Clarifies Failed Crop Clause 'North American Influenza' Spreads Alfalfa Weevils Are Hatching in Iowa Hay Fields How Do You Balance Corn Plant Populations With Higher Seed Costs? Several Countries Have Stopped U.S. Pork Imports Congressional Committees Looking into Influenza Situation Fear That Flu Could Develop into Pandemic is Driving Markets Lower Deere Offers Tier 3 Reman Engines Ag Secretary Addresses Flu Situation SA Flex Eases Loading California Ethanol Move Sparks Strong Reaction ACRE Sign-up Finally Begins FSIS Administrator Wants Risk Ranking Food Safety Legislation Could Be Next Congress Has Tentative Budget Deal CCC Announces Crop Loan Rates Know What You're Paying For in Stacked Hybrids Take Note Of Soil Temperature To Predict Corn Emergence National Pork Board Urges Increased Bio-Security Plans Swine Flu Confirmed in Southwest Checkoff Helps Drive Consumer Interest in Beef Middle Meats CARB Approves Low Carbon Fuel Standard Consultants Now Required for Aerial Pesticide Applicators 2009 World Food Prize Symposium Theme Announced FDA Sets Final Feed Rules Food Safety Requires Public-Private Partnership USDA to Check Changing Face of Agriculture Genome Sequence Sheds Light On Ruminant Evolution FDA to Implement Feed Ban Despite Public Objections Midwest Dairy Association Elects Officers Beef Checkoff-funded Veal Retail Campaign Going Strong Don't Panic Yet Just Because You Can't Plant Corn Ag Committee Reviews Crop Insurance Program Take Time To Manage Spring Field Risks ISU Funds Seven Projects Addressing New Challenges to Agriculture Organic Flax Production Is Growing in Iowa Obama Presents Alternative Energy and Jobs Plan Draft Energy Bill Reviewed on Capitol Hill EPA Releases Review of Climate Bill USDA Civil Rights Agenda Outlined by Ag Secretary Don't Have a Dairy Budget? Get $1,500 Vilsack Addresses Concerns About EPA Finding California's Decision on Low Carbon Fuel Standard Will Impact Entire Country Winter Wheat Progress Not Fairing Well Will 2009 Be a Soybean Aphid Year? Cargill Achieves Eight Critical Animal Welfare Goals HHS Nominee Passes Senate Committee Hearing Bill Banning Antibiotics in Animals Passes Committee Rural Development Funds Released Earth Day Celebration Covering Several Days Agriculture Feeling the Impact of Recession Iowa Has 6% Of Corn Planted As Of April 19 EPA Greenhouse Gas Decision Draws More Unfavorable Reactions Interior Department Distributes Restoration Funds NCGA Files Comments on Proposed Low Carbon Fuel Standards Vilsack Returns from G8 Meeting Obama Administration to Cut Expenses at Cabinet Level Iowa Ag Department Revokes Watkins Elevator's Grain Dealer License Dedicated Ethanol Pipeline Still Under Consideration USDA Economist Talks Ag Economy Iowa Biodiesel Board Applauds Iowa Senate's B5 Legislation Anhydrous Ammonia Application and Planting Corn EPA Issues Finding That Greenhouse Gasses Pose Threat U.S. and Mexico to Collaborate on Climate and Clean Energy President Makes Two More USDA Nominations Report Recommends Changes to Food Safety System Canadians Ready with WTO Challenge Vilsack Calls for Investment in Ag Develpment to G8 Agricultural Ministerial FAQ: Why Wouldn't a Farmer Want to Sign up for ACRE? Iowa Watersheds Get $1.4 Million Of Federal Stimulus Money Do You Really Need Soybean Seed Treatment? When Is The Best Time To Plant Corn In Iowa? EPA Wants Input on Raising Ethanol Blend Wall Delegation Provides U.S. View on Global Food Security at G8 Lawsuit Attempting to Limit Ethanol Blending Is Dismissed Miller Wildcat Provides Welder/generator Tree-Killing Emerald Ash Borer Threatens to Invade Iowa New Requirements for Commercial Pesticide Applications Vilsack Taps Environment and Climate Advisor Iowa Legislation Would Set Alternative Fuel Standard CBO Ethanol Report Discussed by Agricultural Organizations Stimulus Money for Natural Resources Conservation Announced Iowa Researchers Growing Sugar Beets for Biofuel ISU Announces New Extension Entomologist for Field Crops 2009 Word Food Prize Symposium Theme Announced AFBF Addresses Broadband Funding & Services USDA Asking Questions About Animal Identification Farm Sector Economy Stronger than Other Sectors FAQ: Will FSA Accept Crop Insurance Yield Data as Evidence for ACRE? USDA Continues to Fill Staff Positions Nebraska Has First Ethanol Blender Pumps Prices Favorable for Chinese Purchase of U.S. Corn Lifting Cuban Travel Restrictions Good 'First Step' GMO Corn Banned in Germany Iowa Cattlemen's Foundation Awards $3,000 in Scholarships Company Plans to Make Ammonia From Cobs in Central Iowa AFBF Outlines Goals for Climate Change No General CRP Sign-up In 2009 Russia Shuffles Eligible U.S. Pork Plants FAS Adds Country Pages to Web Site Major Storms Sweeping Across U.S. WaterScout Keeps Tabs on Field Moisture John Deere Announces New Global Operating Model for Sustainable Growth Scuse Named Deputy Under Secretary of FFAS Lean Pork Weighs In Just in Time for Swimsuit Season Haul With/Without Passengers With New Kubota Winter Wheat Heading May Indicate Southern Plains Condition Dairy Cattle Reproduction Council Announces National Reproduction Awards Some Corn Already Planted In Iowa EPA Responds to Request for Review of Pesticide Rule President Loosens Some Cuban Related Controls Private Water Systems Handbook Available From MWPS New Guide for Glyphosate Stewardship India Balking on Carbon Sequestration Military Studies Alternative Energy Duckweed Could Replace Corn in Ethanol Vilsack Unveils Updated Research, Education and Economics Information System FFAS Deputy Under Secretary Choosen February Beef Exports Maintain Strong Momentum Supermarkets, Commissaries Support Pork Promotions Delay of Feed Ban Rule Proposed by FDA FDA Wants to Delay Feed Ban Rule Food Safety Progress Not Where CDC Would Like USDA Names Under Secretaries and Additional Staff Groups Step In Where EPA Won't Changes Coming in Marketing Assistance Loans Evaluate Injury to Alfalfa and Forage Crops in April Time to Manage Winter Annual Weeds in No-till Fields FAQ: Does ACRE Payment Come from Base Acres or Planted Acres? Set Up Field Trials Carefully Corn Growers Optimistic About Upcoming Planting Season Sign Up Now For 29th Annual Iowa Agricultural Youth Institute Try Our Crossword Puzzle In Wallaces Farmer April Is 'Iowa One Call Month' and 'National Safe Digging Month' New Incentive to Encourage Summer Conservation Construction NPPC Wants Russia's WTO Accession Slowed Canada Wants WTO Help with South Korean Beef Dispute New Zealand Ambassador to Head Ag Negotiations CBO Report Shows Ethanol Has Little Impact on Food Prices Red River Valley Bracing for More High Water NPPC Wants Russia's WTO Accession Slowed FAQ: ACRE Program Enrollment Begins April 27 Broadband Access Plan Under Development ACRE Sign-up Start Date Finally Set USDA Officials Sworn into Office Reduce Hay Losses Through Smart Harvesting, Storing, Feeding Reecy Named Director of Biotechnology at ISU Drought Impacting Winter Wheat Conditions Study Shows 29,000 Cooperatives Employ More Than 2 Million Meat and Poultry Inspection is Not Broken NPPC Calls for Corn-Ethanol Study McDonald's Japan Sells with Aus NLIS Support for PQA Plus Gains Momentum Aventine Renewable Energy is Latest to File Bankruptcy Obama Pressured to Let Mexican Truckers Through Wireless Monitoring With Vision Works Ag Secretary Announces $17 Million in Grants for Beginning Farmers and Ranchers MAL and LDP Programs Have New Regulations Senators Want Stiff Payment Requirements Nut Problems with Salmonella Expand Poultry Organizations File Suit Against EPA ISU Receives $600,000 from EPA to Study Water Quality Trading USDA Says MILC Payments Are on Their Way to Dairy Farmers Dairy Farmers of America Earns National Recognition From Dannon FDA Ignoring Environmental and Economic Impacts of Feed Ban Senate Ag Leadership Express Concern Over Pesticide Ruling Congress in Recess But Plenty of Work Awaits Funding Released to Rehabilitate Flood Control Structures Experts Focus on Real World Climate Change Costs Some Biotech Testing Ends in Japan Cotton Industry Wants No Program Changes Keep Your Sprayer Moving in the Field Leopold Center Local Foods Workshop Draws Record Crowd Massey Ferguson Offers Six New Compact Tractor Models Farm Progress to Expand Husker Harvest Days Show Deadline Extension Gives Farmers More Time To Decide Iowa Severe Weather Awareness Week April 6 to 10 G20 Communiqué Says Global Crisis Needs Global Solution Poultry Products Recalled Bill Promoting Pipelines Introduced Lucas Rejects Democratic Budget SNAP Benefits Increased to Combat Hunger Nitrogen Sensing Moves Closer to Commonplace It's Time To Evaluate Alfalfa Stands Iowa Soybean Association Travels To China Extension Fact Sheets Address Issues Facing Dairy Farms and How to Manage Them LibertyLink Soybeans Approved for Import into Korea BQ-9000 Program Unveiled FY 2010 Budget Passes House Climate Change Measure Won't Place Economy at Global Disadvantage Food Safety Focus Begins for House Ag Committee Base Acreage on Federal Land Reinstated Sugar Alliance Wants Sugar Quota to Remain Unchanged High School Students Selected for Borlaug-Ruan Internships Spring Cleaning Tips for Biodiesel Tanks Harden Chosen to Head USDA Congressional Relations House Ag Committee Reviewing Food Safety Tips for Managing Corn Residue in Continuous Corn Everyone Benefits When Farmers, Environmentalists Work Together Inaccurate Facts and Omissions Contradict EC Duties on Biodiesel MILC Payments Being Calculated VP And Ag Secretary Announce Recovery Funds Possible Source of Pistachio Contamination Found HOBOnode Does It Wirelessly Iowa To Plant 1% Less Corn, 1% More Soybeans Dow, Syngenta to Cross-License Crop Tech Vilsack Testifies on Ag Issues Within Administration's Budget Pork Producers Pleased by USDA Pork Purchases Senate Ag Committee to Hold Hearing on Four Nominations Farm Bureau Wants Cuba Restrictions Lifted Senate Ag Committee Addresses Child Nutrition Silage Management Tips as Temperatures Rise ISU Updates Corn Nitrogen Rate Calculator Egg Industry Center Hosts First Issues Forum April 8 Setton Pistachio Announces Recall Feds Announce Yamaha Recall of Rhino 450 and 600s ACRE and DCP Sign-up Extended Farmers Wary of Proposed Rules for Winter Manure Application When Should You Use an Inoculant on Soybean Seed? GPS Steering Makes the Job Easier Dairy Farmers of America Marks 11 Years of Industry Service At Annual Meeting President Signs Public Lands Law Farm Bureau Opposed to Proposed H-2A Changes USDA Seeks Comments on Conservation Grants Poly Diker From May Wes Budget Sent to Floor Recommendations to be Released at Energy Summit Dam Hearing Set Rust Resistance Possible FSA to Hold Meetings on ACRE Program in Southwest Iowa Landfill Gas Now Powers a Large Ethanol Plant Pork Act Delegates Overwhelmingly Support Pork Quality Assurance Plus Hog Numbers Shrink Cargill Advances Animal Welfare Leadership Final Stand Counts When It Comes to Cornfields Some Farmers Eligible For Conservation Compliance Variances Next Generation Of Latham's Acquires Family's Seed Business Flooding Continues In Upper Midwest NCGA Forms Climate Change Task Force Bill Introduced to Change Cuban Payment Rule 2009 Farm Custom Rate Survey Results Available Poet, Magellan Jointly Study Possible Ethanol Pipeline Bill to Establish Wildfire Fund Passes House EPA Nominee Steps Down U.S. Firefighters Honored for Work in Australia Monsanto Issues Grant for Scholarships USDA Moves to Help Dairy Sector and Nutrition Programs Damaged Grain Is Worth Less Each Day At Age 95 Bourlaug Still Involved in Fighting Crop Disease Subcommittee Holds Hearing on Conservation Payments Cellulosic Ethanol Executives Push for 15% Blend Farm Bureau, Others, Against California Carbon Score Proposal OMB Director Backs Subsidy Caps Derivatives Bill Gains Support Control Powdery Mildew Red Meat Industry Quick to Refute Study Second Quarter Hog Slaughter Projected Down 5% EPA Says Greenhouse Gasses Are Pollutants Grassley Wants FDA Memo Clarified Obama Talks Energy Alternatives Synching Beef Cow Estrus Cycles Is Now a Lot Easier Professor Named to Lead ISU's BioCentury Research Farm USDA Staff Appointments Made USDA Announces Another Position USTR Already at Work Poultry Being Euthanized in Texas Poultry Being Euthanized in Texas Russians Ban Poultry from Three U.S. Processors Federal Truck Weight Law Introduced Renewable Energy Summit to Be Held FAS Administrator Named WTO Economists: World Trade Down Thicke Forms Committee, May Run for Iowa Secretary of Ag Rappelling Without Residual Herbicides? FAQ: How USDA's New ACRE Revenue Guarantee Program Works Spring Is Here - Will Iowa Have Good Planting Weather? Consider Your Options for Dealing With Stalk Borer Trade Officials See WTO Agreement Still Has Potential Broadband Leader named for USDA Rice Growers Could See More Exports to Cuba Senators Line Up to Support Food for Peace Program Low-yielding Spots Hurt Overall Yield Biodiesel Backers Push Legislature For Mandate Spring Weather Brings Problems With Stored Corn Group Urges Obama Administration to Take Action in Dairy Crisis Wallaces Farmer Names 2009 Master Farmers USDA, IRS Join Forces Pork Checkoff Offers Management Conference Cellulosic Firms Back Higher Ethanol Blends Iowa Ag Property Assessments Increasing in 2009 New Organization and Web Site Serves Iowa Property Owners AgStar Lending Sees Potential Buyers for Ethanol Assets VeraSun Deals Get Court's Stamp of Approval Conference on Food Aid Focuses on Global Crisis Hearings Set to Talk About High-Speed Web Access Cracks Starting to Show in Blend Wall for Biofuels IRFA Endorses Official Waiver Request for E15 FAQ: Does ACRE Replace Crop Insurance? McCormick Turns Corner, Sees Solid Future EU Offers More Beef Imports to End Hormone Dispute New ACRE Tools Available from FSA Program Already Available for Humane Animal Treatment VeraSun Asset Sale Draws Plenty of Bidders Economy Is Slow Now, But Higher Commodity Prices Are Ahead Iowa's Waters Focus of New Leopold Center Annual Report Grain Industry Monitors New Mexican Tariff Plan Disaster Assistance Offered by USDA Today is National Biodiesel Day - Celebrate! Group Applauds Antibiotic Resistance Bill New Report Looks at Swine Gestation Systems New Survey Shows Corn Planting Intentions Slip 4% for 2009 FAQ: New Rules on USDA Payment Limitations Another Ethanol Producer on Financial Ropes Bipartison Group Calls on EPA to Go Slow on Ethanol Rules Iowa Joins Corn Farmers Coalition to Reach Policy Makers Iowan to Become President of National Pork Producers Scientists Develop New 'Triple Threat' Corn Agco to Use Topcon Tierra for Telematics AutoFarm Announces Upgrade Program Purdue Experts Question Antibiotic Resistance Claims Beef Group Pulls Out of Food vs. Fuel Coalition President Nominates Two More to USDA Rule on Non-Ambulatory Cattle Finalized Celebrate National Ag Week Plant Corn in the Mud Not the Answer Here's Help for Managing in Tough Economic Times Celebrate Agriculture's Economic Benefit to Iowa Coalition Opposes Cuts in Safety Net House Ag Committee Wants Many Viewpoints Interior Secretary Orders Renewable Energy Projects Questions Pile Up from WTO Members 2009 Wind Energy Conference March 20 In Fairfield Iowa Farmland Values Decline 7.6% Grants for Energy Audits Available House Agriculture Committee Adopts Budget Letter Rural Development Funds Electrical Upgrade Loans Money for Iowa Water Quality Improvement Projects Approved Can Soil Insecticide Boost Yield of CRW Trait Hybrids? Dairy Markets Are a Concern FAQ: MILC Program Brings Aid To Dairy Farmers Cow Tax Legislation Now Has House Companion Good News for DDGS Exports Democratic Senators Unveil Rural Agenda Labor and Tax Issues Key to Panama Agreement Committee Hearing on Animal ID Iowa Couple Named National Outstanding Young Farmers Iowa Crop Performance Test for Corn Celebrates 90 Years Pork Checkoff Honors Sam Hines with Distinguished Service Award 2008 Pork Industry Environmental Steward Award Winners Announced Mandatory or Voluntary Remains the Big Issue for Animal ID Mandatory or Voluntary Remains the Big Issue for Animal ID Mandatory or Voluntary Remains the Big Issue for Animal ID Mandatory or Voluntary Remains the Big Issue for Animal ID Mandatory or Voluntary Remains the Big Issue for Animal ID CWT Achieves Membership Goal of Two-Thirds of U.S. Milk Supply Any Future Automobile Bailout Should Include Ethanol Requirements Purdue Economists Present Update on Factors Driving Food Prices NFU Meeting Wraps Up Kirk Testifies Before Senate Committee Broadband Initiative Begins Farm Bill Provisions Ease Organic Transition Process Johnson Wins Farmer Union Election; ND to Get New Ag Commissioner Iowa Ag Property Assessments Increasing In 2009 Here's Help For Managing In Tough Economic Times New NPPC Officers Elected First E. Coli Vaccine for Cattle Licensed Air Delivery by Gandy Iowa Corn, Soybean Growers Push Policy Resolutions Moving To No-till Is a Challenge, but There Are Opportunities Too Officials Throw Support Behind Higher Ethanol Blend House Agriculture Committee Reviewing National Animal Identification System National Farmers Union Electing New President FAPRI Reports to Congress Vilsack Announces Release of Recovery Funds Allotted to USDA Last Minute Crop Insurance Questions And Answers Broadband Initiative Announcement Scheduled Report Shows Benefits to Raising Ethanol Blend Limit Chile DDG Test Results Favorable Signs of Spring: Robins, Vultures and Planting Corn Iowa Beef Producer on Meat Mission to Mexico Starter Fertilizer Question Hinges on Planting Date National Pork Board Honors Producers During Annual Meeting Anhydrous Ammonia Applicators Have New Safety Issue March 15 Is Deadline To Apply For Crop Disaster Assistance Program FAQ: New farm bill enhances beginning farmer provisions Workshops to Assist With Manure and Nutrient Management Plans North Central Iowa Workshop to Discuss Farm Tile Drainage AFBF Leader Asks for Liberal Trade Policy Senators Introduce Legislation to Tackle Cow Tax USSEC Names Interim CEO Purdue Economist Advises Being Conservative and Defensive EPA Seeks Farmer Cooperation FDA Overhaul Bill Presented Fertilizer Price Situation Is Still at a Stand-off Yes - You Can Boost Yield of Continuous Corn On-the-spot pH Accuracy CCC Rates Announced for March Should You Enroll in ACRE? Dow AgroSciences, Schillinger Seed Announces Licensing, R&D FAQ: Landlord participation in the Average Crop Revenue Election Animal Improvement Grants Issued Administration Releases Trade Policy Agenda Johnson Throws Hat in NFU Ring More Tax Troubles for Presidential Nominees Iowa Finalizes Cellulosic Ethanol Partnership with POET Meetings Set to Hear Comments on 'Frozen Ground' Manure Rule Texas Places Controls on Incoming Bulls First Group of Winners Announced in Iowa Corn Fed Sweepstakes Consider Ways to Avoid Soil Compaction This Spring Beef Exports up in 2008 Philippine Pork Market to Remain Open Obama to Appoint Sebelius to HHS Post See for Yourself Tour Accepting Participants Producers Favor Biotech Traits in Wheat Philippine Pork Market to Remain Open Report Quantifies Animal Agriculture Attacks Cheese Can Help to Reduce Risk Of Certain Cancers, Research Finds Addressing Consumer Demands For Socially Responsible Pork Production Pork Checkoff Offers Pork Management Conference - Your Pork Industry Investment New Beef Videos Canadian Cattlemen Ready to Move Against COOL Bobcat Company and Polaris Industries Inc. Announce Long-Term Strategic Alliance FAQ: Do I need to buy crop insurance to qualify for SURE? Seed.Pro Streamlines Seed Processing Canadian Cattlemen Ready to Move Against COOL Canadian Cattlemen Ready to Move Against COOL U.S. Sorghum Going to Canada Senators Want Delay in Chinese Cotton Registry Federal Drought Action Team Activated ASA Voting Delegates Set Policy Direction ICGA Pushes Ethanol Resolutions at NCGA Corn Congress How Will Uncertain Economy Affect Planting Intentions? Late-planted Corn Lodged Easier Last Fall SmartStax Corn Trait Expected for 2010 Planting Supplemental Revenue Assistance (SURE) Buy-In Is Reopened It's Decision Time For Farmers Buying Crop Insurance Gross Sales Will Be Used for Payment Limits EPA Approves AVICTA Seed Treatment Fungicide Dairy Prices Will Trigger MILC Payments NCGA President Dickey Reviews the 2008 Corn Year Researchers Credit Soybean Group for Genome Support Go On-Line to Measure Your Farm's Health Select Genetics, Traits for Right Seed on Right Acres Yellow Corn, Wet Soils, N Loss Lessons of 2008 Farm Earnings to Fall Ag Budget To Hold About Steady ASA Leaders Address USDA Inspector General Investigation Monsanto Launches Genuity Brand for Seed Products Monsanto Launches Genuity Brand for Seed Products FAQ: Where to get information on new USDA farm programs New Iowa "Bee Rule" Will Better Protect Health of Honeybees Quality of Iowa Topsoil Has Declined NFU President Stepping Down Hearing Held on CFTC Nominee Fed Chair Cautious in Statement on Economy ASA Bars USSF Delegates Agrium Launches Bid to Buy CF Industries Time to Order Fertilizer Deadline for Crop Insurance Is March 16 Hearing on USTR Possible Next Week ISU College of Ag Presents Awards to Faculty, Staff Court Decides to Regulate Farm Dust Governors Want Blend Wall Lifted Deadline Looms For Farmers Who Have VeraSun Claims FAQ: Information needed to prepare for ACRE Ag Census Shows Growth in Iowa Fruit & Vegetable Production Concern Continues About Wet, Damaged Corn Obama Pledges to Cut Deficit in Half Argentine Farmers Strike Continues Senate Committee Members Want Review of Cuba Policy Announcements from President Obama Expected Ag Outlook Forum This Week USDA Encourages Voluntary COOL Practices USDA Encourages Voluntary COOL Practices USDA Encourages Voluntary COOL Practices Final COOL Rule to Go Into Effect as Planned Organizations React to End of Merger President Signed Energy Agreement with Canada Congress Holding Hearings on Several Issues Be Aware of New Rules on USDA Payment Limitations Farmers Benefit from Biotech Endorsement Expansion All-electric Bad Boy How to Make The Same Hybrid Look Different It's Time to Consider Frost Seeding Pastures Survey Shows Expected Increase In Soybeans National FFA Week Coming Up Fertilizer Shortage Could Hinder Corn Crop Court Approves VeraSun Auction JBS Deal With National Beef Falls Through Marlin Rice Resigns as ISU Extension Entomologist International Harvester Collectors Convention March 5-7 at Waterloo USDA Cattle on Feed Report Coming Friday Groups Respond to JBS Announcement Sustainable Food Lab Announces Conference Obama Makes First Foreign Trip as President Not Enough Interest in Pork Checkoff Referendum Kinda Cuban Showcases Pork at Tropical Smoothie Cafe FAQ: Get a head start on enrolling in ACRE Vet Shortage Continues Report Card Issued On Beef Checkoff Program Obama Administration Wants Stronger COOL Less Nitrogen Could Increase Profit, Sustainability Iowa FFA Members Invade State Capitol Montana Offers P-Series New Organic Ag Web Site Features Land-Grant University Research Pioneer Rolls Out New Umbrella Brand Obama Signs Stimulus Bill into Law Pharmaceuticals Pay Dividends Trilateral Meeting Uncovers Common Goals Weaker Land Prices Are Forecast for 2009 Livestock Losses Limited by Pharmaceutical Technology Pork Checkoff Referendum Won't Be Held Hypertherm Unveils Portable Plasma Cutter Cornbelt Cow-Calf Conference Is February 28 Iowa Learning Farm Offers Free Planter Clinic March 4 CWT Finishes Latest Herd Retirement Round Web Site Promotes Careers in Pork Production ReinTech is Born to Reinke and Pivotrac Jaguar Harvester Gets New Options NASS to Release County Crop Yields March 2 Budget Cuts Cause ISU to Close Food Research Facility Economic Recovery Package Going to President Moran Supports OCS Development PCA Files for Chapter 7 Protection John Deere Risk Protection Offers New Crop Delivery Contract Policy DFA Takes Action to Help Members Peanut Recall Will Expand Wallaces Farmer Honored With Distinguished Service Award Legislature's Review of Tax Credits Has Corn Growers Concerned Groups Meet to Discuss Cattle Industry JBS Abandons National Beef Acquisition Who Should Control Internet Dollars in Stimulus? Not Just the Internet – YouTube Livestock Coalition Meets With USDA How Thick To Plant Still a Hot Topic Iowa Farmers Urged To Assist USDA With Survey Iowans Named To National Beef Checkoff Committees Get Information About New USDA Farm Programs Farm Sector Poised for Long-Term Growth Stimulus Package Goes to the Floor Corn and Ethanol Industries Fire Back Following Ethanol Attacks State Fertilizer Regulations, Licensing Rules Must Be Followed 2008 Busted Some Old Truths in Corn Production Transparency in Markets Bill Passes Committee Acquisition of National Beef by JBS Terminated Another Cabinet Member Withdraws Nomination Obama Administration Refocusing on Resources China Became Largest Pork Importer in History in 2008 No Single Factor Driving Beef Demand Funds Available to Specialty Crop Groups to Improve Competitiveness Carefully Calculate Your 2009 Crop Insurance Needs Chairman Peterson Introduces Speculation Bill More Farmers Choosing Biotech Crops Major Agreements Made to Stimulus Package Second PCA Plant Closed Nominees Sought for Abraham Lincoln National Agricultural Awards Senate Passes Stimulus Bill Vilsack Supports Single Food Safety Agency Iowa Ranks #2 in Wind Energy, Surpassing California 'River of Milk' Mural Installed at Iowa State Dairy Farm Livestock and Dairy Prices Down in USDA Report CAFTA-DR Improving Trade Numbers FAQ: USDA extends comment period on payment limit rules New Disc Chisel from Landoll Senate Ends Stimulus Debate February USDA Reports Drawing A Lot of Interest New Funds Available for Renewable Energy Projects Raising Livestock Responsibly Is Right Thing to Do Senators Ask Ag Secretary to Implement AGI and Payment Limit Reforms Vilsack Says Expect Change Check Bins Now--Make Decisions About Stored Corn Iowa Corn-Charged Truck Up for Grabs Global Grain Market Important to U.S. Farmers VeraSun Seeks Authority to Sell Assets Pork Serves Up Affordable Mealtime Solutions Corn after Beans Yields More than Corn after Corn - True or False? EPA Reopens California Greenhouse Emissions Decision Agriculture Projections to be Released NFU Wants Economic Review Global Award for Cooperative Excellence Challenges Facing the Pork Industry Gardiner Angus Ranch Launches Educational Internet Video Series Beef Industry Announces Awards Donation Helps Close Gap On Iowa FFA Enrichment Center Fund Raising Census Of Agriculture Results Now Available USDA Moves Against PCA Senate Holds Food Safety Hearing TTX Series Complete Specialization in Livestock Projection Continues Iowa Included In USDA's Planting Transferability Project Even in Tough Year, Renewable Fuels Power Iowa Economy Diversity a Major Point in Ag Census Data Iowa USDA Labs Are Being Investigated Winter Wheat Condition Runs the Gamut EU Critical of ACRE Program Ag Census Shows Number of Farms Increases, But So Does Concentration Agco Causes Explosion in the Georgia Dome! Stimulus Includes Funding for USDA Modernization and Biofuels Money in the PIPE Guiding Principles for Biodiesel Sustainability Unveiled Bill to Address Merger Problems Introduced House Holds Hearing on Market Transparency Bill Grain Indemnity Fund Begins To Pay Some VeraSun Claims Eyes Are On South America As Crops Dry Up New Farm Bill Enhances Beginning Farmer Provisions Cattle Sellers Recoup Money Owed To Them By Postville Plant New Cattle Trends You Must Know Payments Made to Producers Holding Bad Claims FSA Conducting Lamb Referendum CCC Rates Announced for February Vermeer Founder Passes Away at Age 90 Drop in milk prices USDA Offering Grants to Assist Value-Added Ag Projects Bill Introduced to Close Hedge Fund Loophole Grants Will Help Socially Disadvantaged Carolinians Named National Stewards Gregg on Short List for Commerce Secretary Negotiations with JBS Swift May Take a While Sort Through Mixed Signals on Planting Date Merial Surehealth Limited Warranty Updated Nufarm Expands Glyphosate Portfolio with Continued Innovation VeraSun Meets With Farmers USDA to Measure Economic State of U.S. Agriculture Learn to Grow Your Own Fuel Feb 3 at Power Farming Show Look Further Ahead, Be Happy Massive Peanut Butter Products Recall Announced Watch Feb. 2 Webcast to Learn About USDA's New ACRE Program Who Owns DNA Test Data? EPA Approves Plant Health Label for Fungicide National Pork Board to Meet in North Carolina Farmers, Motor Vehicle Operators Top Iowa Worker Deaths Strategies to Manage Feed and Market Price Risk Spring Deworming the Best Legislation Introduced to Stop FMD at the Border Partial Support Payments Coming Soon Sale and Disposal Rules Delayed Partnership will Clean Up Illinois River Watershed No Change to Interest Rates Retroactive Rangeland Carbon Credits Deadline is Friday Funding Needed for Lock and Dam Upgrade Brazil Authorizes HERCULEX I Corn FAQ: FSA is collecting additional financial information Dry Manure Applicator Certificate Workshops Scheduled Iowa Cattlemen's Auction Generates Scholarship Funds Speculation on New Head for FSIS WTO Official Speaks Out Grassley's Wind Energy Proposals Rejected DFA Assumes Responsibilities Of Cal-West Dairymen, Inc. Senate Finance Takes Up Stimulus Package New USDA Conservation Program Announced Be Aware of Crop Insurance Changes for 2009 Vilsack Holds First Press Conference Federal Crop Insurance Clarification Sought U.S. Meat Exports Holding Up AccuBoom Remote Section Control 2009 Cattle Industry Annual Convention in Phoenix More Protectionism Possible, Policy Expert Predicts NMPF Urges Congress, Obama Administration to Focus Immediately on Dairy Crisis Manure a Costly Option for Dairy's Uncertain Future Dairy Cow Numbers Trend Downward In 2009 QUINTEC Fungicide Now Labeled for Use in Peppers Dairy Industry Prepares to Visit Colorado for 2009 Similar Population Study Finds Different Results FAQ: ACRE offers new risk-management option President Meets With Congressional Leaders Groups Ask for Free Trade with Cuba NFU Wants All Factors of Trade Addressed Biofuels Cleaner Than Earlier Studies Showed Irrigators Could Benefit From Satellite Information Harkin Has Some Reservations About CFTC Nominee "Snapshot Survey" of Farmers Reveals Optimism Iowa Farm Groups Push Their Legislative Agendas Plan To Attend Iowa Power Farming Show Feb. 3-5 Vilsack Selects Chief of Staff Beware of Contagious Equine Metritis Blame Wheat Prices, Not Corn NCBA Opposes Dairy Buyout in Stimulus Package Ag Committee Power Shifts to Plains Farm Bureau Wants Internet, Roads and Rivers Funded Beginning Farmers Conference Feb. 7 at Ames Iowan Named to Head AFB's Federal Deficit Task Force Bill Would Defer Estate Tax on Family Farms Trimble Unleashes Major Product Array 2009 National Pork Industry Forum U.S. Soybean Exports Still High R-CALF USA Worried by Peru FTA Obama Administration to Review Country-Of-Origin Regulations Confirmation Delayed for Environmental Appointments House Wants to Meet with Obama on Stimulus Package Ethanol Pofitability Calculator Developed by ISU POET Pilot Plant Now Producing Cellulosic Ethanol Farm and Ranch Irrigation Survey Mailed Vilsack Confirmed as Secretary of Agriculture Ethanol Plants for Sale Stimulus to Give USDA $250 Million for Upgrade World Wheat Numbers Have Turned Around Iowa Farmers Invest Millions in New Grain Storage Corn Starch Breakthrough at ISU FAQ: Is USDA going to use higher prices as base for farm bill revenue payments. NPPC Files Suit Against EPA FSA Announces Crop Disaster Sign Up USTR Talks Trade, Doha Culver Proposes $700 Million Rebuilding Plan Iowa Power Fund Receives Recognition from EPA Interior Drafts Offshore Oil Drilling Plan FAQ: For USDA farm program participation, just who is a "producer"? Better Corn Stands Mean More Bushels President Implements Peru TPA Argentina Increasing Grain Beef Herd Loan Guarantee Approved for Commercial Scale Cellulosic Ethanol Plant Signup for Conservation Innovation Grants Announced Iowans Credit Improved Hybrids For 2008 Crop Results Iowa Legislature Begins 2009 Session Managing Through A Recession—Options For Farmers COOL Challenges Likely Canada Puts Hold on WTO Complaint Against U.S. EU Rejects U.S. Move on Trade Environmental Quality Incentives Program Amended DuPont and Athenix Collaborate to Advance Insect Control EPA, USDA Should Do Better Job Monitoring Nutrient Runoff Iowa Study Shows Trends in Farmland Ownership FAQ: Direct attribution rule changes payment limits First Seed Treatment Nematicide Receives Registration for Use on Corn National Pork Board Names 2009 Celebrated Chefs Hurt Says Livestock Producers Will Continue To Hurt In 2009 Hurt Says Livestock Producers Will Continue To Hurt In 2009 Hurt Says Livestock Producers Will Continue To Hurt In 2009 Iowa Directory Lists Native Seeds for Restoration and Conservation Farm Credit Announces Board Election Results National Ag Day Essay Contest Call For Entries Europe Must Eventually Accept Biotech Farm Bureau Delegates Set Policy Vilsack Faces Senate Ag Committee ASA Submits Policy Priorities Hay Expo Returns to Wisconsin NPPC Supports Changes To Animal ID System Decision to Place Biosecurity Lab At K-State Is Final Farming the Health Benefits from Soybeans Cattlemen name Schooley to ICA Hall of Fame Coalition of Organizations Backs Increased Funding of Agriculture Clean Energy Renewable Fuels Association Provides Outlook for Ethanol in 2009 Today's Rural Americans Aren't as Fit as Urban Americans BASF Plant Science Signs Up Two Brands to Market Corn Hybrids With NutriDense Mixed Reactions to COOL Regulations Secretary of Agriculture Reflects on His Tenure Ag Making Progress in Reducing Environmental Impact Economist Sees Another Year of Struggle for Livestock Producers Final Rule for COOL Published Food Industry Eagerly Awaits New High-Oleic Soybean Trait Fruit and Vegetable Growers to Meet Jan. 29-31 USB Chairman Comments on Checkoff Investigation Economist Sees Lower Crop Prices in 2009 AutoFarm Introduces OnTrac2 GPS Assisted Steering System USSF Responds to ASA Press Release All Things Considered, Ag Sector in Good Shape Corn Checkoff Offers Value-Added Grants for Market Development Courses for Beekeepers Being Held Across Iowa American Farm Bureau Ready to Work With New Administration Grain Exports Face Challenges In 2009 Biodiesel Capable of Meeting RFS Shortfall VeraSun Energy Shuts Three Plants How Will Soybean Checkoff Flap Affect Iowa? IronPlanet Announces First European Online Auction New Soybean Organization Formed Ag Secretary Summarizes Administration Accomplishments 2009 Iowa Pork Congress Set for Jan. 28-29 Hot Button Issues on Agenda for Iowa Renewable Fuels Summit Dairy Farmers' Dilemma High Interest in January USDA Report Obama Looking for New Commerce Candidate Schafer Signs Final Rule for COOL Farmers Find More Profit Potential in Food-Grade Soybeans Lessons Learned From 2008 Corn Growing Season USDA Recommend Audit of Soybean Checkoff NAWG Surveying Producers on Biotech Traits Save the Family Farm and Ranch Act Introduced Obama Stimulus Package Being Promoted Monsanto Outlines Development Pipeline Weather Channel and Monsanto Launch Farmer-oriented Service Carroll County Grazier Wins Spencer Award Iowa Soybean Association Kicks Off 45th Anniversary Cattle Importers Waiting on Mexico NCGA Wants Doha Movement Crop Insurance Industry Prepares For More Scrutiny 2008 Was Iowa's Fourth Wettest Year on Record Iowa Crop Variety Performance Test Results Available World Economy Will Play Major Role in Agriculture Vilsack Confirmation Hearing Set More U.S. Farmers May Plant Soybeans NCBA Names New CEO FAQ: Farm Bill Implementation Announced by USDA Farm Credit Grants $20,000 to Annie's Project Milk Income Loss Contract Program Signup Underway NCBA Names New CEO NCBA Names New CEO Mexico Wants to Change Shipments of U.S. Beef Mexico Wants to Change Shipments of U.S. Beef Connor Named to Head NCFC Mexico Wants to Change Shipments of U.S. Beef Movie 'King Corn' To Debut In Des Moines ISU Has Latest Word on Odor Control Iowa Climate Change Advisory Council Issues Final Report Group Criticizes EQIP Program Non-Organic Fertilizer Made it Into Foods Dry Weather Hits Southern Brazil Hog and Pig Inventory Down Former USB Chairmen Speak Out ISU's Walt Fehr Honored by Iowa Soybean Association Soy Transportation Coalition Reelects All Officers Pioneer Makes Acquisition to Enhance Information Solutions for Growers Bee Losses May Have Single Cause Upper Illinois Rivers Locks Still Closed Nitrogen Rate Study Held True to Form Iowa's Energy Plan Says "Think Beyond Corn" Iowa Cattlemen's Annual Convention Is January 6-7 China Sets Export Quota Limit Mexico Lifts Meat Import Restrictions for Some Plants How Much Grain do You Give Away? Premise Registration Requirement Cancelled Comment Now on Changes Proposed for Iowa Bee Rule Iowa Corn Growers Announce 2009 Crop Fair Schedule Top Soybean Yields Goes Beyond Plots USDA Scholars Program Open for 2009 Academic Year Could Two Major Grain Groups Merge? VeraSun Lender Seeks to Regain Lien ISU Vet Med Students Excel In Animal Welfare Judging Farm Bill Decision Is Good News for Iowa Corn Producers Winter Weather Stressing Livestock Grassley Against Russian Admittance to WTO Ports Association Wants Part of Recovery Package What Demand Exists for Soybeans in 2009? Organic Cotton Acres on the Rise Certain Farm Bill Provisions Support Organic Agriculture European Union Seeks Consultations on Hormone-Treated Beef ASA Sees ACRE Program as Positive Acting Undersecretary of Rural Development Named FAQ: How will USDA Treat Flexible Leases for Cropland? Higher Costs Unfold as Dairy Tech is Removed Beef Sector Sees Lower Returns and Margins Despite Smaller Inventories Last Month's Milk Production Forecast Lowered Bayer CropScience Continues Growing Strong Program Growers Get More Answers on VeraSun Milk Production Numbers Lowered EPA Partnership Issues Grant Applications Gates Foundation Supports School Meals Abroad Interim Final Rule Issued by USDA on 2009 Payment Limits Maquoketa Team Is 2008 Beef Scholarship Extravaganza Champion IRFA Elects Officers And Executive Committee for 2009 FAQ: What can I do ahead of final ACRE rules? Lower Cattle Numbers are Not Producing Higher Prices ACRE Program Details Finally Announced Signups Begin for Farm Programs Korea Buying U.S. Corn Iowa Farm Groups Comment On Vilsack Nomination Have a Plan for Winter Power Outages U.S. Pork Exports Defy Expectations Tips To Help You Survive Winter Ice And Snow Storms Strong Cheese Exports, Slow Domestic Sales Dairy Cattle: November Milk Production Up 1.4 % Plant Sales Could Allow JBS Transaction Another WTO complaint Over COOL Gets Filed Another WTO complaint Over COOL Gets Filed Another WTO complaint Over COOL Gets Filed USMEF Says October Numbers Continue to Show Progress Milk Income Loss Contract Program Signup Announced U.S. Oil Consumption to Flatten Mexico Files WTO Complaint Over COOL Court Proceedings on Hold USDA Announces New Office of Ecosystem Services and Markets Quality of Life Is High for Iowa Farm Families Plan to Attend a Crop Advantage Meeting - Coming Soon Pork Infuses International Flavor into Holiday Celebrations Senator Calls for Next Step in Vietnamese Importation of U.S. Beef Manure Applicator Workshops Scheduled for 2009 Two Iowa Soybean Growers Named to Help Lead National Groups Obama Officially Names Vilsack as Nominee for Ag Secretary Wheat Crop Estimate Cut in Argentina Baucus Presses Vietnam on U.S. Beef Imports Food for Progress Assistance Announced New NCBA Leader Announcement Soon Vilsack to Be Named Ag Secretary Missouri Lawmaker to Propose Decriminalizing Margarine USMEF Says October Numbers Continue to Show Progress USMEF Says October Numbers Continue to Show Progress Lessons Iowans Learned from Floods of 2008 Northern Iowa Community Wind Project Announced Revised Net Cash Income Numbers Still Record Meat Export Numbers Very Positive for Pork and Beef Producers Climate Change Could Cripple Agriculture New IRON Search Equipment Section Now in the Hands of Over 54,000 Wallaces Farmer Subscribers ISU Survey Shows Land Value Growth Is Slowing Down Ag Initiatives Fit Obama's Stimulus Plans New PCVAD Article Focuses on Disease Surveillance Dairy Group, Ex-Execs to Pay Corn Growers Support FFV Requirements in Detroit Bailout Bill Grants Available to Iowa Enhance Iowa Hog Industry Dorr Sees Challenges and Opportunities Ahead for Rural America Smooth Transition Occurring from Old Administration to New President-elect Makes Key Energy Nominations Uncertainty Remains on Possible Audit of Soybean Checkoff Groups Propose Farm-Based Energy as Key to Stimulus Package ISA Comments on Call for Probe of Soybean Checkoff VeraSun Wants to Keep Three Iowa Plants Running EPA Gives Livestock Producers Exemption No WTO Meetings This Year Increased December Chinese Imports Argentine Wheat Yields Down Iowa Land Value Survey Results To Be Released Dec. 16 FAQ: Lease Arrangements and ACRE Buhler Resurrects Versatile Name and Logo National FFA Announces Plans for Future Conventions Inspector General Completes Slaughter Investigation FAQ: Is ACRE a year-to-year decision? Education Efforts Create Export Opportunities in Middle East Obama's Energy Team Being Readied Major Increase in Farm Product Sales to Iraq National Change in Weather Pattern DuPont Unveils New Strategy to Expand Its Seed Business Farmers Will Cut Corn Plantings in Favor of Soybeans in 2009 It's Official: Liberty Link Beans Coming in 2009 FAQ: Getting ready for ACRE in 2009 Know Your Dairy Cattle Farm Feed Costs TB Confirmed in North Dakota Cow Peril Continues For VeraSun Corn Suppliers New House Agriculture Ranking Member Opposes CFTC Merger Overall Winter Wheat Condition is Good USB Responds to Allegations IOG Says Hallmark/Westland Was Isolated Incident Spring Crop Insurance Deadline Nears Auction of Surplus Dry Milk Delayed Beef Checkoff Could Increase Beef Checkoff Could Increase Soybean Association Calls for Checkoff Investigation Beef Checkoff Could Increase Markets Waiting for USDA Crop Reports TB Confirmed in North Dakota Cow TB Confirmed in North Dakota Cow Hallmark Westland Investigation Completed See Attorney Before Cashing VeraSun Corn Checks GAO Issues Report on Agency Coordination Committee Working on Food Program Reauthorization New Papers on WTO Doha Talks Issued China and U.S. Agree on Need to Curb Trade Protectionism Culver Wants Congress to Enable Transmission of Wind-Generated Power Contract Status Still Uncertain for VeraSun Corn Suppliers General Economy Will Affect 2008-2009 Crop Prices European Union Approves Import of Roundup Ready 2 Soybeans Monsanto Launches Initiative to Improve Water Quality in Mississippi River Basin Knight Visiting Argentina Farmers Can Get Credit, But Other Challenges Remain Promoting Increased Biofuel Production Globally Seed Pricing Stories Run Rampant Farmers Will Face Even More Challenges in 2009 Collaboration Results In Safer, Wiser Pesticide Use Corn Growers Are Heard In VeraSun Bankruptcy Proceedings ISU Seed Science Program Not Offered Anywhere Else Biodiesel Promotion Grants Available to Schools Biomass Feedstock Report Released VeraSun Receives Final Bankruptcy Court Approval Argentina Won't End Farm Export Limits Ethanol Co-Product Granted Entrance to Australia Report Outlines Agriculture Challenges for the Next 30 Years Homeland Security Selects Kansas for National Bio and Agro Defense Lab Kohl's '09 Outlook: Both Boom and Bust Are Possible USDA Slashes Export Forecast Several Factions Oppose December WTO Meeting ECO-heater Warms Room for Less Senate Agriculture Ranking Member Wins Runoff Manhattan Wins Bid for Bio-Agro Defense Facility Former House Ag Committee Member Says USDA Restructuring Inevitable USDA Seeks Public Comments on Deregulation of GMO Corn U.S. and China Meeting to Discuss Economy Iowa Co-op Partners in Story County Wind Energy Center Higher Yielding Varieties of Low-lin Beans Available VeraSun Cancels U.S. BioEnergy Corn Contracts Lawrence Named to USDA Advisory Committee EPIC Joins Growth Energy to Help Speak Up for Ethanol Lamy Stresses Need for Aid and Trade FDA Reports Progress in Protecting Food Supply Agriculture at the Forefront of 2009 Commodity Rebound Canada Moving Towards WTO Challenge Over COOL Pilgrim's Pride Files for Chapter 11 Protection Gate Closes on 'Cow and Sow Tax' Comments Public Meetings on Bovine Tuberculosis Scheduled Federal Agencies Set Energy Corridors Economy is Wild Card in Beef Cattle Price Forecasts Economy is Wild Card in Beef Cattle Price Forecasts Iowa Grain Indemnity Board Clarifies Coverage You Need to Aerate Stored Grain Now Light Up the Night Economy is Wild Card in Beef Cattle Price Forecasts Culver To Extend Harvest Weight Limit Exemption ICGA Urges Iowans To Show Support For American-made Ethanol Sukup Is Renew Rural Iowa Entrepreneur of the Month Iowa Learning Farm Offers New Videos Lame Duck Session Continues Next Monday New Videos Added to Consumer Education Series on YouTube Push Being Made for Change in Trade Policy with Cuba President Bush Pardons Turkey Help Available for Turkey Preparation Questions Collapse in Fertilizer Prices Cause Loss for The Andersons New Link Connects Farmers, Marketers and Consumers The Biofuels Boom - Will It Last? Does It Pay to Use Fungicides to Control Foliar Diseases of Soybeans? More Families Face Challenge of Farming Together Farmers Will Be Affected By Tax Changes Group Challenging VeraSun's Corn Contract Procedures GAO Report Questions Farm Payments South Korean Retailers Resuming U.S. Beef Sales South Korean Retailers Resuming U.S. Beef Sales South Korean Retailers Resuming U.S. Beef Sales ICGA Backs Grower Challenge to VeraSun Bankruptcy Terms Interest in Buying VeraSun Iowa Farm Bureau Annual Meeting Is December 3-5 Focus on Ways to Prevent Future Flooding Slow Start to Harvest Leads to Slow End U.S. Meat Production Forecast Lowered Food Prices May Finally Be Responding to Market Factors Several Factors Lead to Less U.S. Meat Production Pork Producer Appointed to Iowa Environmental Protection Commission Asoyia Officials Comment on Legislation to Ban Trans Fats Vilsack Says He Will Not Be Next Ag Secretary Evaluate Base Genetics, Not Just Traits More Evidence of Shrinking Beef Industry USDA Report Show Beef Industry Contraction VeraSun Closes Iowa Ethanol Plant, Wants To Void Corn Contracts Farmers File Objection In VeraSun Ethanol Bankruptcy Farm Groups To Broadcast Free Income Tax Seminar On ICN VeraSun Energy Bankruptcy Poses Perils For Farmers And Elevators Harkin Looks to Bring Transparency to Futures Market Winter Drought Outlook Mixed Bag of News Rains Expected to Downgrade Australian Wheat Crop You Grow It, We Burn It! VeraSun Reports Substantial Third Quarter Losses FAQ: ACRE Rules and Details FAQ: Yield Information and ACRE FAQ: What is ACRE? FAQ: What Are the New Provisions of the Farm Bill? Renewable Energy Group Gets $740,000 Iowa Power Fund Grant Detailed Iowa Soils Information Now Online Auto Bailout Remains Elusive Lower November Dairy Price Outlook Taiwan Must Drop 'Food Safety' Barriers National Biodiesel Board Elects Leadership Matching Funds Available for Meat Companies to Open International Markets Matching Funds Available for Meat Companies to Open International Markets Matching Funds Available for Meat Companies to Open International Markets Get The Facts On Selling And Buying Manure Fall And Winter Management Of Alfalfa StollerUSA Launches Updated Web Site for Growers and Farmers Schafer Leads Delegation to Brazil for Biofuels Conference Corn and Ethanol Industry Answers Attack Biodiesel Happy About Diesels Role in 2009 RFS EPA Issues Review of Own Agency Dairy Price Forecasts Have Dropped VeraSun Refuses to Honor Contract Prices for Corn WTO Chair Pushing for Quick Movement USDA to Determine If Producers Want Pork Checkoff Vote Bayer CropScience Offers Poncho 500 Rebate to Growers Coalition Calls for End to Ethanol Subsidie Concentration in Ethanol Industry Focus of Trade Commission Report Corn Harvest Delays Continue Tolman Calls for Food Price Cut Farmers Not Paid By VeraSun For Corn Should Contact IDALS Soybean Cyst Nematode Management Field Guide Available Kuhn Offers New Shredders Another Canadian Case of BSE is Found Another Canadian Case of BSE is Found Another Canadian Case of BSE is Found BSE in British Columbia Twin Rows Easier to Harvest Than 15-Inch Rows Schafer Says Progress on Doha is Being Made Colombian Dairy Sector is Big Market for U.S. Grains USMEF Gearing Up for Branding Promotion Lame Duck Session Will Be Held This Week Corn Prices Have Dropped, But Have Your Food Prices? National Organic Ag Expert To Discuss Climate Change Nov. 23 Attend A Crop Marketing Club Meeting Nov. 17-20 Soy Exports Set New Record Researchers Make Breakthrough in Developing Ug99 Resistance Schafer Appoints Dairy Board Members House Lame-Duck Session Doubtful Can't Blame Farm Subsidies for Obesity Problem Manure Applicators Must Meet Training Requirements Before Dec. 31 Dairy Promotion Board Named USDA to Release Funds for Conservation Disaster Assistance USTR Discusses Import Restrictions with EU Schafer Hopes New Administration Can Build on Past Success Iowa Turkey Federation Joins Livestock Coalition Nominate Someone for Renewable Fuels Marketing Award Poll Says Biofuels are Most Accepted Method to Achieve Energy Independence Try These Welding Projects Stored Beans With Mixed Moisture Need to Be Aerated Annual Iowa Organic Ag Conference Is Nov. 24 New Ethanol Coalition Goes After Big Food Red States Turning Blue? Canada Trying to Regain Beef Access to Korea List of Top 100 Cooperatives Released Iowa Corn Harvest 62% Complete National Pork Board to Complete 2009 Strategic Plan and Budget Soybean Harvest Nearly Complete, Corn Continues to Lag Winter Wheat Planting is on Target Corn Breakage Increases With More Grain Drying How Low Could Corn Prices Go? Same Hybrid Under Different Conditions Looks Different World Trade Talks Need New Approach Ethanol Positions Affected Rural Vote in Presidential Election What Does Obama Win Mean for Iowa Agriculture? New Amendments in Place for 2008 Farm Bill Beef Exports are Increasing UK Pushes for Origin Labeling Deadline For Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program Approaching Bankruptcy Raises Questions About Protection For Farmers Selling Grain Kubota Offers Gasoline RTV500 USDA Crop Report Comes out Monday Lower Harvest Prices Trigger Crop Revenue Insurance Payments 'Farm to School' Program Making Apples Available Secretary Makes Board Appointments USDA Transition to New Administration Underway Wetter Corn Requires Better Storage Management USDA to Hold Value-Added Producer Grant Meetings Repeat of 1980 Farm Crisis Unlikely Government Slashes Australian Wheat Estimate Rural Development Head Resigns Big Red Takes on the SxS Market Californians Pass Measure that Limits Livestock Confinement ISU Faculty Appointed to National Air Quality Task Force Field Molds Are a Corn Quality Issue This Year Farm Groups Assess Top Issues For Obama, New Congress Rural Housing Loans Outperforming Economy Winter Hitting Dakotas, Bringing Wet Weather to Midwest VeraSun Delays Opening of Plant Scientists Ask for EPA Rulemaking Delay Iowa Corn Harvest Remains Moist And Late VeraSun Energy Gets Finance Help Corn Harvest and Development Lagging Behind USTR Seeking Comment on EU Beef Hormones Dispute Favorable Weather Allows Start of Aussie Wheat Harvest VeraSun Says It Will Continue Operating Iowa Facilities Weather Summary For 2008 Growing Season USDA Announces New Administrators New Requirements For Controlling Manure, Wastewater From Large CAFOs McCain Farm & Ranch Committee Call Obama Out Over Statements ISU Agriculture And Life Sciences Alums Honored Moisture And Test Weight Are Corn Quality Issues In 2008 Harvest Reveals Surprises in Plots Ethanol Maker Declares Bankruptcy Trimble Acquires Tru Count Assets Council Created to Energize New Generation of Beef Industry Leaders Become a Master of Beef Advocacy Veal Retail Marketing Initiative Launching This Fall Rachel Ray Readers Respond to Pork Ad 2008 Pork Environmental Stewards Named NCBA Endorses None of the Above Big Push to Defeat Prop 2 EPA Greenhouse Gas Rules Expected USDA Announces Early Details of their Annual Outlook Seminar Choose Wisely When Making Soil Fertility Decisions Charges Filed Against Farm Employees in Hog Abuse Case Buhler Resurrects Versatile Tractor Brand Iowa On-Farm Research and Demonstration Grants Available for 2009 More Livestock Producers Need to Get a Permit Will Interest Rate Cut Help Farm Borrowers? Will Farmers Plant More Corn or More Beans Next Spring? Pork Promotion Was the Name of the Game in October Ethanol Has Advantage over Gasoline Environmentally and Economically Lamy Says Opening Trade is Healthy Vermeer Has "Cornstalk Special" Harvest Less Corn Residue to Maintain Soil Productivity Organic Oilseed Firm Name Rural Iowa Entrepreneur of the Month Sound Ag Policy Vital In 2008 Presidential Race USDA Revises Crop Production Estimates Lower New Draper Platform from Deere Goal Of Reducing Size Of "Dead Zone" Likely Won't Be Met Schafer Clarifies Rural Business Loan Guarantee Farm Credit Available, More Strings Attached Cast Releases New Commentary Evaluating Biodiesel Production Winter Wheat Ratings Released Genetics Provide Evidence for Virus Movement Via Migratory Birds Do Your Fields Need Conservation Repairs? New and Different Products Buck the Economic Trend Precision Maps Can Reveal What Happened After the Fact Food and Fuel Forum Tackles Tough Issues CWT Announces Second Buyout This Year MGEX Board Recommends Trading Exclusively Electronically GIPSA Rules Affect Swine Contractors Iowa Farmers' Efforts Are Honored With Gulf Guardian Award ICGA Provides Calculators to Assess ACRE Program Dairy Export Council Updates Web Site Dairy Safety Focus Of New Publication Ukraine Harvests Nearly 50 Million Tons of Grain Corn Disease Publication Updated and Available for Iowa Beef Center Announces "Iowa's Next Top Inventor" Competition Rust Reaches Corn Belt Big Three Packers Pledge to be COOL USDA Awards Electric Loans USDA Flunks Another Test On Civil Rights New Manure Nutrient Management Guide for Iowa On-Farm Research Conference Focuses on How to Get Good Data Kuhn Has New Power Harrows Schafer Makes Up Mind on ACRE Base Years Meat Production will Decline in 2009 Proposed USDA Bailout for Ethanol Brings Livestock Protest NCBA Accepting Applications for CEO Position Charges Filed in Iowa Hog Abuse Case Freeze Won't Affect Crops, Precipitation Slowing Harvest Some Argentine Wheat Helped By Rain Mexico Still Biggest Market for Distillers Grains Watch Soil Temperature for Nitrogen Application Ethanol Co-Products Dramatically Extend Corn Supplies U.S. Seed Industry Suspends Market Choices Certification Biofuels Are Best Option to Harness Solar Energy Farmetrics Seeks to Lower Ag Risks Positive Reactions Pour in on Justice Suit Against Packer Acquisition Too Many Plants Cuts Yields Rains Come to Argentina as Planting Season Begins Analysts Predicting Bigger Drop in Australian Wheat Crop Justice Department Files Suit to Block Beef Packing Merger McCormick Completes TTX Series With Third and Most Powerful Model Iowa Soybean Association Responds to Hunger ISU Economist Looks at 2008 Crop Production, Price Outlook Deere Offers 5D-5M Series Utility Tractors Grain Contract Schemes Occurring In Midwest Ground Beef Recall Announced Renewable Energy Will Help Economy to Recover Corn Growers Unveils Benefit Analysis Calculator Beef's Premium Depends on Quality Fertilizer Dealers Agree To Fall Nitrogen Code of Practice Register Now For 2008 ICM Crop Conference At Ames WTO Issues Ruling on Hormone Beef Ban No Hope for Doha Deal This Year World Wheat Production is Rebounding Make the Right Tillage Decisions This Fall USDA to Collect, Publish County-Level Data on Land Rental Rates Biotech Helping U.S. Farmers Satisfy Global Demand Ag Exports May Surpass Expectations CSREES Awards $2.2 Million for National AgrAbility Project Soybean Farmers Renew Challenge to End Hunger And Malnutrition News From ISU's Leopold Center for Sustainable Ag Record Number of Employers to Recruit at ISU Ag Career Day High Protein Breakfast May Help Dieters POET Gets Money for Iowa Cellulosic Ethanol Plant Checkoff Report Shows Benefits of Animal Agriculture Corn Belt Misses Storms, Leaving Corn in Good Shape New Biodiesel Blend Specifications Published Australian Farmer Selected For Kleckner Award Siemens and USDA/ARS Partner in Second Generation Biofuels World Bank/IMF Zero In On Food Crisis Raising of Animals Focus of Two Events Economic Downturn Does Have Silver Lining for Farmers Australian Wheat Crop Forecast Reduced Farmers Respond To USDA Raising Harvest Estimates Sensible, Thoughtful Policy on Biofuels Needed Silver Linings in Doom 'n Gloom Clouds Cash Rental Surveys Being Sent Out More Wetlands Incentives Available Ag Committees Schedule Hearing on Nation's Financial Mess Fall Frost Can Affect Forage Toxicity for Animals World Food Prize Symposium Taking Place in Des Moines Every Field Deserves the 'Push' Test Document Crop Losses, Prove Your Yield This Fall How Fast Can You Expect Corn To Dry Down? Trading Music for Oil Pork Partners With Soybean Council What's Covered, What's Not by Iowa Grain Indemnity Fund New Blender Dispenser Pumps for Ethanol Open in Iowa Presidential Candidates Look to Rural Areas Europeans Have Negative Attitude toward Cloned Animals as Food Schafer Addresses Globalization at the AgExecutive Forum U.S. Pork Industry will be Observed by Chinese Delegation Wet Weather on Way for Parts of Midwest Grain Safety Means Avoiding the Grain Flow Hunger Summit to Focus on Iowans' Efforts to Combat Hunger Amity Launches Air Till Drill Combating Invasive Pests Gets Nearly $1 Million USDA Awards More Than $28 Million in Specialty Crop Research USDA Proposes Biotech Rule Changes McCain-Palin Announce Rural Team National Biofuels Action Plan Unveiled Soybean Growers Ask USDA for Help Funding Soybean Rust Monitoring Decide Between Grain and Forage for Late Maturing Corn Harvest Late Maturing Soybeans for Grain or Forage? Iowa Farm Bureau Supports Credit Rescue Package Iowa Has Already Harvested Nearly 40% Of Bean Crop Egg Producers File Requests Alleging Humane Society Secretly Taped Calls Midwest Harvest Lags Behind Normal Pace Commerce Secretary Travels to Brazil for Trade Talks Balchem Introduces Rumen-Protected Lysine USDA Provides Incentive for Public Access to CRP How High Fuel Prices Affect Corn Prices Check Bean Seed Quality at Harvest Some Hybrids Like it Thick, Some Don't! Rotella T Goes Synthetic Chicken Industry to Consolidate Around Multi-Protein Model Iowa Approves 2008 Harvest Weight Limit Exemption When Will Killing Frost Hit Most Of Iowa? House Passes Bailout Package Value Cuts Promoted in Mexico How Do You Value Immature Grain Crops Harvested As Forage? Iowa Leader Pushes for Biodiesel Tax Credit Extension Favorable Weather Being Seen in South America Lack of Funding Forces Databank Closure Senate Sends Bailout Bill to House U.S. Positioned to Be Leading Biodiesel Market Soy Coalition Says Transportation Issues Need Fixing Tips on Managing Alfalfa Fields This Fall New St. Louis Facility Doubles Urea Capacity Farmer Mac Raises $65 Million in Capital Farm Credit Still Rock-Solid USDA Gives Disaster Declaration for 90 Iowa Counties Minimize Corn, Soybean Harvesting Losses Bill to Change Beef Checkoff Brought to Senate COOL for Meat Finally Enacted Frost is Flirting with Upper Midwest USDA Funding Overseas Promotion Dow AgriSciences Acquiring Another Seed Company Harvest 2008 Underway Statewide In Iowa Intern Opportunities With Pork Board Bumper Apple Crop This Year in Iowa Iowans "Crop Up" in National Leadership Roles We Test Miller's Renegade 180 Failed Bailout Drops Stocks for Agribusiness Companies Senate Passes Farm Bill Fix Hog Losses to Persist China Dairy Scandal Reaches United States Lessons Abound in Corn Field Before Harvest Tentative Deal Reached on Bailout Package Charge It - Two at a Time Iowa Farm Lenders Remain in Good Shape Scout Cornfields for Stalk and Ear Rots Tensions Continue to Run High in Argentina Tuesday is Important Deadline Date Packers Want "North American" Label for COOL Crisis Hikes Farmers' Costs, But Sector Is Strong Insurance Deadline For Fall-Seeded Crops Is Sept. 30 SATURDAY WEB TIP: Click on a Tab for In-Depth Information Presidential Candidates Answer Ag Questions National Cattlemen's Beef Association CEO Resigns Cargill Endows ISU Program to Accelerate Biorenewables Asoyia Receives $300,000 USDA Grant Schafer Announces New Head of Food Safety Stokes Resigns as National Cattlemen's Beef Association CEO Chance of Frost May Increase Next Week Europe Has Tremendous Potential as Market for Grain Sorghum Lincoln Electric Unveils Ranger 225 GXT Power Krawler Offers High Traction, Low Compaction Hogs and Pigs Report Preview House Approves 10-acre Rule Amendment Senate Hearing on Keenum Nomination to Farm Credit Administration Corn Exports Post Near-Record in 2007-08 Marketing Year "Good Neighbor Guide" Helps Livestock Farmers House Committee Attacks Air Emissions Exemption For CAFO Biodiesel Tax Credit Extended by Senate Financial 'Melt-down' Impacts Grain Precise Fueling for 4X4 Pastures and Forage Benefit from Heavy Rains Crop Insurance Deadline Looms Paulson Says Decisive Action is Needed Iowa Announces $3.5 Million for Nine Water Quality Projects Farm Machinery Can Crush You! Feed Industry Leaders Speak with Obama Advisers Nearly 25% Of Iowa Corn Now Safe From Frost Corn Crop is Downgraded Cattle UltraSound Business Wins Rural Iowa Award New Poll Shows McCain Leads With Rural Voters Ethanol Commercials Released Nationwide Cattle Inventories Are Shrinking Speculation Limiting Bill Approved in House House Ag Committee Tries 10-Acre Rule Fix Early-season Problems Show Up in Late-Season Stand Counts Field Days Explore Sugarbeets, Switchgrass for Alternative Energy Growing Marketplace Seeks ISU Ag Business Majors Pequea/Deere Agreement to Boost Frontier Brand Montana Loses Brucellosis-Free Status SATURDAY WEB TIP: Be on Alert What Is Needed To Maximize This Year's Corn Crop Weather Still Threatens Soybean Crop & Quality Truckers and Exporters Sign Agreement Plain Predicts Higher Placements Trade Mission Heads to Central America Next Week Farm Safety and Health Week Sept. 21-27 Iowa Power Fund OKs Key Grant for Cellulosic Ethanol FDA Issues Draft Guides on Regulating Genetically Engineered Animals Current Weather Should Calm Freeze Fears USDA Purchases Tomatoes Horse Bill Considered but Not Voted On Make Weed Management Decisions Now Are You Interested in Transitioning to Organic? Livestock Farmers Condemn Abuse At Iowa Hog Farm Iowa Farmland Values Increase Again Farm Progress Magazine Group to Feature IRONsearch.com Equipment Sections Time to Participate in 2008 Grain Quality Analysis Program New Process Improves Appearance, Odor of Irradiated Beef Judiciary Committee Set to Vote on Horse Bill Farm Bureau Says EPA Can't Regulate Ag Dust Australian Wheat Harvest Downgraded Slightly Farm Progress Magazine Group to Feature IRONsearch.com Equipment Sections Future of Biofuels Is Uncertain, Say Speakers at ISU Conference Iowa Corn, Bean Crops Still Lagging In Maturity Crops Continue to Lag Behind Normal WTO Talks Continue in Geneva CME Says Clearing Function Protected Fertilizer Companies Face Class Action Lawsuit Over Price Fixing USDA Lowers Production Estimates U.S.-China Trade Talks Scheduled This Week Iowa's 2008 Corn Harvest Estimate Lowered U.S. Soybean Crop Estimate Down Slightly From August A Golf Cart No More! Nitrogen Deficiency Biggest Discovery From Field Walks New Mexico's Cattle TB Status Downgraded SATURDAY WEB TIP: The Power of RSS Who Needs To Sign-up For SURE for 2008? Sept. 16 Deadline For 2008 SURE Disaster Assistance K-State Researchers Find Genetic BSE Cause K-State Researchers Find Genetic BSE Cause K-State Researchers Find Genetic BSE Cause K-State Researchers Find Genetic BSE Cause K-State Researchers Find Genetic BSE Cause USDA Awards Value-Added Grants to Iowans Farmers Union Asks USDA to Extend Buy-in for Disaster Assistance Testimony Highlights Need for Biodiesel Tax Incentive Extension State Departments of Agriculture Ask for Lift of Cuban Restrictions Biodiesel Board CEO Responds to New Report Kentucky Triples The Joy Heed Preharvest Intervals for Insecticide-Treated Soybean Fields Changes in Fertilizer Market Are Impacting Farmers Ike Could Bring Rust to Midwest Wyoming Keeps Brucellosis-Free Status Maple Leaf Identifies 'Likely Cause' Of Bacteria ACRE Meetings Being Held In Iowa Brazil Diary: No Easy Profit In Brazil House Judiciary to Vote on Horse Bill Bipartisan Group of Senators Rally Around Energy Plan USDA Administrator Talks COOL Cool Weather Limiting Crop Maturity Iowa Restricts Cattle Movement Due to Brucellosis Make Farm-Scale Ethanol from Sorghum FSA Deadlines Fast Approaching—September 16 and 30 Diplodia Ear Rot Being Reported in Iowa Corn Crop Condition Shows Stability ACRE Will be Available for 2009 Crops USDA Awards Science and Education Grants Soybean Rust Moving North CME Group Recommends Changes to Wheat Contract New Power for MF Tractors Farm Progress Corn Fields Have Wider Implications Republican Plank Calls for Repeal of Renewable Fuels Standard Sign Up Now for USDA Floodplain Easement Program Active Hurricane Season Continues WTO Meeting Scheduled in Geneva This Week National Farmers Union Hosting Fly-In SATURDAY WEB TIP: Go Mobile No-Till Soybean Production Field Days Next Week Cool Weather Now Doesn't Necessarily Mean Early Frost Ecological Economics Is Topic for Pesek Colloquium Sept. 11 Northwest Iowa Research Farm Marks 50th Birthday USDA Awards Value-Added Grants Canadian Government To Investigate Listeriosis Outbreak Analysis Suggests Higher Food Prices In 2009 And Beyond ISU Experts Discuss New FDA Irradiation Rule Iowa Corn Grower Groups Elect New Officers Assistance Mobilized for Gustav is Prepared for Continuing Storms Pork Board Names New CEO Republican Platform Calls for End to Ethanol Mandates Moly's New Hydraulic Chute Iowa Crops Beginning To Mature Dry Conditions Cause for Concern for Corn and Soybeans USDA Continues Evaluating CRP Situation Corn Growers' New Policies Aim for More Ethanol Options Livestock Issues to Be Covered at Sept. 8 Field Day Dow Completes Acquisition of Dairyland Seed Co., Bio-Plant Research Ltd. Elanco Announces Location for New Global Headquarters Firm to Give ISU $1 Million to Renovate Curtiss Hall Follow Pre-harvest Restrictions for Fungicides Obama Kicks Off Campaign with Biodiesel Plant Tour Less Meat in 2009 New Auger Options Lower Court Overturns BSE Decision New Virus Invading Honeybees Sudden Death Syndrome Crops Up in Iowa Bean Fields Hybrid Selection for '09 Starts Now SATURDAY WEB TIP: Join the Discussion Farm Bill Is Not Trade Compliant Farm Bill Funding Comes to Iowa Rural Water Systems Four Set Records at Iowa State Fair Livestock Sale Schafer: Renewable Fuel Decision Is "Watershed Moment" For United States Westland Worker to Talk About Supervisors, Owners Farm Bill Renewable Energy Provisions to be Discussed FSIS Requests Comments on COOL Label Approval USDA Announces Proposed Rule for Disposition of Downer Cattle Ag Drainage Is Critical for Efficient Crop Production Eastern Iowa Cattlemen to Host Hereford Tour Dorr Announces $35 Million in Energy Grants and Loans Big Red Takes on the SxS Market Consumers Favor Biodiesel Brazil Seeks Permission to Sanction U.S. Goods over WTO Cotton Case Experts Advise Cover Crops for Flooded Spots Iowans Continue Pushing for Ethanol Pipeline Own the History of John Deere Vets Say Initiative Not In Animals' Best Interests American Ag and Energy Council Announces Formal Organization Sustainability: Produce More, Conserve More New Branding Provides New Seed Performance Technologies to Enhance Genetics and Traits Exclusive Survey Shows Farmers Wary of Increasing Corn Acres Biodiesel Powers 2008 Farm Progress Show Farm Progress Show Features Crop Specialists Public Meeting Scheduled on Farm Bill Renewable Energy Provisions Egypt is Important Partner to U.S. Breakthrough in Producing Hydrogen from Biofuels Omega-3 From Biodiesel Byproduct Don't Miss These Exhibits at Farm Progress Show Take a Closer Look at New ACRE Program Iran Purchases U.S. Wheat U.S. Working to Move Doha Forward Watch Fields Where Common Rust Was Prevalent Feedlot Numbers Continue to Shrink Feedlot Numbers Continue to Shrink USDA Issues Electric Loans Feedlot Numbers Continue to Shrink DFA Adds New Division SATURDAY WEB TIP: Customize to Maximize Why Are Soybean Aphids So Bad This Year? Listen To Experts On Stage At Farm Progress Show Drainage Field Day Set for Sept. 10 at Story City Corn Growers Announce State-Level PAC Awards Look Good Welding for Less Will Argentine Farmers Strike Again? Need for Midwest Ethanol Pipeline Highlighted Monsanto, China Seed Expand Corn Seed Joint Venture Dairy Export Prospects Improve Food, Fuel & Climate: Moving from Debate to Dialogue New Director for Iowa Division of Soil Conservation Researchers Seeking Healthy Honeybees USDA Expands Crop Insurance Premium Reductions Lower Dairy Sales Expected in 2009 Elanco Will Buy Posilac Dow Selects Name for Nitrogen Stabilizer Additional States and Seed Technology Approved for Crop Insurance Premium Reductions Elanco Will Buy Posilac A Web Change is Coming Make Hay Quickly with Windrow Pro Southeast May Benefit from Tropical Storm Asian Soybean Rust Less Prevalent in 2008 Expert Advice for Managing Soybean Cyst Nematode Plan for 2009 Crop Year by Managing Flooded Soils Feinstein Questions Ethanol Tariff Instant BSE Test Being Developed USDA and China Sign Biofuel Agreement New, Multimillion Dollar Site Ready for 2008 Farm Progress Show USDA's 2008 Corn Yield Forecast Is Above Trend Line Crop Conditions Are Steady Argentine Farmers Protest Economic Environment Dairy Farmers Feeling the Squeeze of High Production Costs Dairy Farmers Feeling the Squeeze of High Production Costs Rail Antitrust Exemptions Being Scrutinized Rural Cooperative Development Centers Receive $4.5 Million Canada Confirms Another Case of BSE Field Tours Will Show Biomass Crops Aug. 25 and Aug. 29 Governor's Charity Steer Show Raises $100,550 Thick Corn Holding Its Own With Rain There Will Be Enough Corn To Meet Demand Practical Farmers Of Iowa Holding Field Days Six Biodiesel Companies Earn BQ-9000 Certification Remarkable Numbers for Beef and Pork Exports 'Not Your Father's Tillage' Featured at Farm Progress Show Goss's Wilt Prevalent on Corn in Western Iowa DDGS Pelleting Course May Lead to More U.S. Exports to Japan. Online Dairy Class Offered U.S. Trade Development Has Succeeded in Japan Organic in Year of the Flood Featured at Aug. 20 Field Day Prop 2 Supporters Sue AEB, USDA Iowans Urged to Keep Eye Out for Emerald Ash Borer Scout Now for Downy Mildew and Other Soybean Diseases Food Inflation May Slow Because of Falling Commodity Prices Will Rust Show Up on Late-Planted Beans? Weather Pattern is Predicted to be Neutral WTO Leaders Have Differing Views on Doha Round USDA Issues Clarifications of COOL Interim Rule Tight Corn Supplies Will Continue Next Year Mild Temperatures Help Iowa Crops Crop Insurance Deadline Plays a Role in Farm Bill Disaster Programs Russia is Growing Market for U.S. Beef Practical Farmers Schedule Field Days in Iowa Crops Are Looking Good Know Your Spots - Leaf Diseases On Corn Iowa Leaders Applaud EPA Ruling On RFS Possible E. Coli Contamination Prompts Recall of Ground Beef Dow AgroSciences to Acquire Dairyland Seeds August Report Supplies First NASS Estimates for Corn and Soybeans Fungicide Applied on High-Yield Plots Last Week Brazil Diary: More Grain Buyers in Brazil Soybean Aphid Numbers Have Increased Rapidly 2008 Iowa State Fair Gets A Good Start Dow AgroSciences to Acquire Dairyland Seeds RFS Mandate will Remain in Effect Anhydrous Prices Soar on U.S., International Markets Emergency Grazing Extended Farmland Ownership Stakes Have Never Been Higher Iowa Farm Receives National Stewardship Award Deere Adds to Its Compact Utility Line John Deere Launches New Utility Tractor Lineup EPA Denies RFS Waiver New State NRCS Conservationist for Iowa Soy Transportation Coalition Tours Key Infrastructure Monsanto Plans to Part with Posilac USDA Announces TRQ Increase Bush Talks Free Trade in South Korea Monsanto to Sell POSILAC Farm Futures Survey Shows Crops Recovered From June Floods World Wheat Outlook is Looking Favorable Railroads Want to Quit Hauling Anhydrous Ammonia Hot, Humid Weather Is Helping Crops Mature Senator Harkin Introduces Ethanol Pipeline Bill Web Site to Aid Pork Producers Manage Tough Times CRP Acres Released for Grazing in Drought Disaster Counties Weather Helping Crop Conditions New Online Ticket Order System Offered for Farm Progress Show Haying and Grazing of CRP Battle Not Over Yet Mandatory COOL Shouldn't Affect Consumers Breakthrough on Avian Influenza Research New Iowa Corn Checkoff Rate Goes Into Effect Sept.1 Deadline for Carbon Credit Contract Signup Is Aug. 15 New Power for MF 5400 Series Maturity Issue Could Have Legs Watch For Soybean Aphids NOW Iowa Crop Loss Less Severe Than Expected Brazil Diary: Iowa Intern Offers Inside Look at South American Competitor Plymouth County Pork Producers Donate to Flooded SE Iowa Hog Farmers Hart Named New Grain Marketing Economist at ISU How Can Progress in Geneva Move WTO Talks Forward? Cellulosic Biofuel Research Gets Shot in Arm Rural Electric Loans Awarded Report Recommends Cautious Action Toward Biofuels Off-Road Vehicle Line Gets Makeover Energy Speculation Bill Still Stalled Salmonella Found in Mexican Irrigation Water USDA Issues Interim Final Rule on Federal Milk Marketing Orders Iowa Soybean Association Breaks Ground for New Offices Iowans Invited to "Join the Ride" at 2008 Iowa State Fair Failure to Reach WTO Agreement Unfortunate Iowa Taking Steps to Open Public Lands for Haying and Grazing Rouse Named Executive Director of ICIA Specialty Crop Research Applications Available Weld or Keep the Lights On Horse Transport Bill Introduced in House USDA Says No to CRP Penalty-Free Early Outs WTO Talks Breakdown in Geneva U.S. Beef Reaches South Korea U.S. Beef Reaches South Korea U.S. Beef Reaches South Korea Limits on Farm Operating and Ownership Loans Increased Corn and Bean Conditions Very Good Interim Final Rule for Mandatory COOL New Grass-Based Livestock Group Formed Crop Delays Will Carry Through to Harvest Cow Power Could Generate Electricity for Millions Cow Power Could Generate Electricity for Millions Cow Power Could Generate Electricity for Millions When Is Right Time to Spray Fungicides? Here Come the Bean Leaf Beetles Groups to Host COOL Workshops COOL Workshops Being Presented Groups Hosting COOL Workshops Veneman Mentioned as Potential Obama Running Mate This Could Be Decision Week for Fungicides Diesel Air Compressor Is Thrifty More Federal Disaster Assistance Available July Cattle Report Shows Smaller Inventory July Cattle Report Shows Smaller Inventory Elk Likely Source of Brucellosis Pork Checkoff Sponsoring Future Leaders July Cattle Report Shows Smaller Inventory These Dark And Stormy Nights Do You Want To Change Your Cropland Lease? USDA Renews Funding for Swine Health Research Cutting the Carbon Hoofprint Producers with Approved Contracts Can Continue Haying and Grazing CRP Swine Health Research Funding is Renewed CFTC Combating Manipulation of Futures Markets Harkin Says WTO Action Not Likely Until Next Year PFI Field Days Focus on Crops, Grazing, Next Generation Should Cattlemen Consider Warm Season Grasses? Cutting the Carbon Hoofprint Pork Board Elects New Leadership Animal Care Initiative Launched by Farm Bureau Animal Care Initiative Launched by Farm Bureau Animal Care Initiative Launched by Farm Bureau Animal Care Initiative Launched by Farm Bureau Court Rules to Allow Haying and Grazing of CRP Animal Care Initiative Launched by Farm Bureau Versatility Both Ways Australia Receives Much Needed Rain Farm Bureau Launches Animal Care Initiative Some Progress being Made at WTO Meeting Is That Common or Southern Rust on Iowa Corn? Unusual Foliar Diseases Showing Up in Corn Corn Congress Re-elects Iowans to National Board Soybean Cyst Nematode Now Appearing on Bean Roots Amendments Could Derail Speculation Bill RFS Waiver Decision Delayed Opinions on U.S. Subsidy Cut Vary Greatly Renewable Energy Grants and Loans Awarded by USDA Kubota Lays Down Tracks With New Krawler EU and U.S. Offer Cuts on Subsidies Iowa Crop Conditions Continue To Improve In July Congress Investigating Speculation Lamy Says Now is Time for Action Shift in Sweeteners Near Record Numbers Seen for All Milk Prices Fewer Cattle and Less Bang for Checkoff Buck Milk Prices Remain Very High More EQIP Money Available for Iowa Late Silking Puts Corn Yield at Mercy of Fall Weather Know Your Hay's Humidity Beef Industry Must Do More with Less Dig Roots Now To Assess Corn Rootworm Damage Start Scouting For Soybean Aphids Judge Orders Parties to Work out Compromise on CRP First Half of 2008 Was Wettest Ever for Iowa Contact FSA for Emergency Conservation Assistance FMD Bill Passes Senate Committee Public Meeting Scheduled on BioPreferred Labeling U.S. Trade Representative Hopeful about Ministerial Meeting USDA Funding Research of CCD EPA Not Expected to Roll Back Mandate Argentine Senate Rejects Sliding-Scale Tax Farm Groups File Amicus Brief on CRP Presidential Candidates Pledge Support to Agriculture Bi-partisan Delegation Headed to Colombia E85 Ethanol Sales Up Sharply as Gas Prices Rise Tips to Help Manage CRP for Hay or Pasture Getting Ready for COOL More Rain Likely in Corn Belt Additional Funding for Conservation Programs Rallies Attempt to Tilt Argentine Senate Vote Knowing Your Corn's Silking Date Is Valuable Information Take Advantage of Iowa Hay and Straw Directory Governors Association, GM Team Together on E-85 Expansion New Record Set for Pork Sales, Beef Also Increases New Record Set for Pork Sales, Beef Also Increases Beef Checkoff Launches New Web Site Iowa Crops Continue To Improve Pequea Offers Fluffer Tedders Cutting Costs by Limiting Pasture Clipping Meat Exports Continue to Rise Flooded Fields May Have More Disease Farmland Leasing Meetings Begin July 17 Reduce Use of Fuel and Time by Using Smaller Pastures and Frequent Moves New Record Set for Pork Sales, Beef Also Increases Badger Band to Officially Kick Off Wisconsin Farm Technology Days Case IH Adds New Flail Conditioner USDA Provides Funding to Develop Science-Based Tools. WTO Nations Reviewing Revised Texts Australian Drought is Hurting Wheat Seeding FSA Allows Manure Application on CRP Online Calculator Can Help You Evaluate New Farm Program Fungicide Could Be Next Big Call Farmers OK Increase In Iowa Corn Checkoff USDA to List Stores Receiving Recalled Meat New Grizzly 550 Purrs Like a 700 Conservation Funding Pushed by Harkin Is Released FSA Announces 2008 DCP Sign-Up Senate Introduces Legislation to Protect U.S. from FMD Barge Traffic Resumes on Mississippi River NCBA to Review Governance Structure Pioneer Launches New Generation of Soybean Varieties Environmentalists Lodge Complaint with USDA Farm Credit Helps Customers Hurt By Severe Weather Iowa Cropland Rental Rates Up 18% For 2008 Soybean Association, EU Feed Industry Want Greater Biotech Acceptance Courts Issue Restraining Order to Stop Haying of CRP Senate Ag Committee Approves CFTC Nominees Peterson Urges Caution on Regulating Energy Futures Iowa Farm Bureau Asks Congress for Specific Help Field Days Look at Opportunities for Next Generation in Farming Mexican Sweeteners Added to USDA Reports USDA Releases CRP Acres for Livestock Grazing in Flooded Regions Argentine Court Upholds Legality of Grain Tax Asgrow Narrows Finalists for Roundup Ready 2 Yield Iowa Crops Improving With Better Weather How to Get Better Weed Control in RR Beans Insurance Has Greater Importance this Year R-Calf Obtains Preliminary Injunction Crop Development Continues to Lag Behind Normal USDA Begins Issuing Advance Payments South Korea Names New Cabinet Ministers ICGA Supports Keeping The Current RFS NPPC Urges EPA To Waive Ethanol Mandate Signs of Disease, Insects Showing on Young Corn House Sets Hearings on Futures Markets British Newspaper Attacks Alternative Fuels Truncated Signup Period for DCP Program Kansas Reader Wins Polaris Prize Culver & Northey Call For Immediate Release Of CRP Farmers Reminded of Corn Checkoff Vote July 8 Helping Iowans Make Better Decisions in Tough Times Don't Use Flood-Soaked Grain for Feed or Fuel Bigger Acreage Helps Soften Flood Losses NBB Responds to AEI Discussion Plaintiffs Ask Court to Consider New BSE Case in Ruling USDA Official Tapped for Farm Credit Position Degree Days Continue To Lag In Iowa Ag Leadership Program Deadline Nears Drier Weather for Midwest at Last National Sorghum Checkoff Begun Confidence in Food Safety is Rebounding Late Corn Replanting Carries Major Risks Only Half Of Iowa Corn Crop Rates Good Or Better Planted Acreage Exceeds Expectations Wet Weather Continues to Delay Corn and Soybean Progress Goodlatte Speaks Out in Favor of RFS Reduction USDA Announces Grants Clark Tapped to Head NASS U.S. Hog Inventory Surprises Analysts Disaster Loans Available for Flooded Farmers Iowa Hit With Half Of U.S. Crop Damage Spray Late Emerging Weeds In Corn? Sidedressing Corn Without N Will Level Playing Field WTO Director General Pushes Trade Talks Senate Anti-trust Chair wants to Block JBS Acquisitions Permanent Disaster Program and ACRE Will Take Time Leopold Center Seeks Project Ideas for 2009 R-CALF USA Wants Brucellosis Program Expanded Remember Safety During Flood Renovations Build Stock Trailers with "PerfectFit System" U.S. Beef Set to Enter South Korea Following a Wet Planting Season - Will Crop Diseases Flourish? Crop Rotation Variance Granted for Organic Farmers Direct and Counter Cyclical Payment Sign-Up Announced HSUS Releases More Video Uncertainty Surrounds Crop Production FMC Wants to be Your Hero Carefully Clean Farm Buildings After Flood Financial Assistance for Flood, Tornado Victims USDA Plans for More Crop Surveys AVMA Testifies on Antimicrobial Resistance before Senate House Agriculture Committee Postpones Energy Vote Integrated Electronics Keep Tabs on Harvest Operations Is Your Well Water Safe to Drink? Former USDA Economist Criticizes Ethanol Policy Corn Conditions Improve; Soybeans Still Lagging Behind Crop Disaster Sign-up Begins Cattle Supply is Shrinking CFTC Chief Assesses Futures Market in Back-to-Back House Hearings Canada Confirms New BSE Case in BC Canada Confirms New BSE Case in BC Canada Confirms New BSE Case in BC Kawasaki Adds Fuel Injection to Brute Force 750 Crop Devastation Nears $3 Billion South Korean U.S. Beef Imports Could Resume Soon Why Flooding Is Occurring More Often Swine Waste Feeds Grassland Pastures Missouri's Plain Pegs Swine Breeding Herd Down 2% Haybuster Has New Grain Grinder Corn with Preplant N Gets Nod Early Group Forms Ag Safety Council Photo Diary: A Look at the Flood Landscape Machine Works Like a Dawg June 25 Next Key Date For Crop Insurance Meat Industry Responds to South Korean Demand for Younger Cattle South Korea to Import Only Younger Cattle Renewable Fuels Standard Under Fire USDA Working to Assess Flood Impact Companies Donate To Support Flood Relief Efforts Manage Manure Storage Structures in Wet Weather Farm Progress Show Site Development on Schedule Biofuels Take Heat from Flood Impact Flood Impact Keeps Spreading New Biotech Advancement Announced National Corn Growers Name South Dakota Farmer to Leadership Farm Bill Veto Overridden...Again Biofuels and Renewable Energy Get Special Attention New Chevron Delo Grease Weather Is Making Post Applications More Challenging June Agricultural Crossword Multi-Trait Corn Package Moves to Regulators Crop Insurance May Help Flooded Farmers Next Flood Challenge: Crop Insurance Hayfield Lodging - Some Fields Have Fallen Flat ISU Research Farm Field Days 2008 Schedule South Korea Leader to Make Beef Statement Disaster Assistance Reminders From FSA Scab Incidence Varies Across Midwestern States China Buys Beans Under the Arch Survey Shows Extensive Need For Replanting Biodiesel Clears Significant Hurdle Iowa Flooding Moves Downstream...to the Mississippi Grain Dispute Case Moves to Higher Court Pick Up Loose Material with the Clawt USDA Extends Deadline to Report Planted Acres Group: New Hypoxia Plan Needs More Information Pick Up the Pieces and Move On Record Prices Cause Buyers to Back Off Iowa Officials Stunned By Aerial View Of Crop Loss FAPRI Says Oil Major Factor in Commodity Prices Flooding Slows Iowa Biofuels Production Farmers Facing Tough Decisions On Late Planting Syngenta Issues Alert on Five Hybrids Up To 20% Of Iowa Grain Crop Lost To Flooding Flood-related Resources Available For Iowa Dole, McGovern Named 2008 World Food Prize Winners Get Answers At Emergency Crop Meetings FSA Nominations Open June 15 Flooding Causes Closing of Mississippi River Locks USDA Announces Farm Bill Provisions Pros and Cons of USDA Allowing CRP Acres for Livestock Use An ATV Stile Rural Voters May Sway the Presidential Picking? Erosion Control Structures Are Paying Off Rains Continue in Midwest; Drought a Concern in Other Areas U.S. Will Not Renegotiate Beef Deal with South Korea Practical Farmers of Iowa Hosts Field Days DOE and USDA Send Letter to Senate Energy Chairman CFTC Interagency Task Force to Study Commodity Markets M-F Adds Four New Subcompacts USDA Cuts Corn Yield Estimate Food Before Fuel Partnership Launches Campaign Iowa Crops Behind Normal, Plagued By Flooding Farmers Warned As More Flooding Expected Canadian Food Label Consultations Close Corporations Joining USDA in Promoting Nutrition Beginning Farmer and Rancher Committee Will Hold Open Meeting ICGA and IRFA Expose Trickery of Anti-Ethanol Critics Oklahoma Attorney General Urges Scrutiny by DOJ Weather Remains Issue for Corn and Soybeans Twin-Row Concept Gains Momentum Western Iowa No-Till Field Day June 17 How to Make Soybean Replant Decisions President Will Veto Farm Bill Again USDA Releasing Supply, Demand and Price Projections SIP Growing Well Carefully Assess Hail Damage To Corn Advice For Farmers With Flooded Fields Cattle Feedlot Tours Slated for June 16-19 Windsock Designed for Chemical Application Projects Senate Re-Votes on Farm Bill Pork Producers Warn of Significantly Higher Pork Prices Schafer Says FAO Meeting Productive Blender's Credit Viewed in New Terms Lamy Says Talks Moving Toward Moment of Truth Immigrants Fuel Alternative Weed Control Weldcraft Offers New TIG Torch Iowa Conference to Address Livestock Situation Seven Iowa Watersheds to Receive $5.4 Million Senate Holds Hearing for CFTC Nominees Update Considered for Poultry Improvement Plan WTO Rules Against U.S. in Cotton Dispute Company Announces Commitment to Double Crop Yields Pulling Back The Curtain and Peering Into the Future Of Corn Iowa Farm Bureau Proposes Comprehensive Energy Plan Some Gas Pumps Unable to Compute High Prices June 10 WASDE to Include Cotton Price Projections Should You Capture This One-Time Tax Savings? Tyson to Withdraw Raised Without Antibiotics Label USDA To Step Up Defense Of Ethanol State of Iowa Opens Trade Office in China Consider Replant Options For Corn Fields U.S. Presents Strategy to Combat Food Prices Planting Springs Forward High World Wheat Harvest Needed Avian Influenza Research Funding Renewed South Korean Protesters Ask Court to Block U.S. Beef This Year's Plots Will Put Delayed Planting Theories to the Test Critical Time for Farm Strike in Argentina Higher Fuel Prices Boost Custom Farming Costs Referendum to Raise Iowa Corn Checkoff Announced Congress Back From Recess USDA Announces Record Forecast for Exports Will You Be Planting Soybeans In June? Flooded Corn Fields, Saturated Soils Survey on Continuing Pork Checkoff will be Conducted World Pork Expo Marks 20th Anniversary Schafer Leads Presidential Delegation to Rome South Korea May Allow U.S. Beef in Next Week Miracle Heel for Skin Damage Pork Prices Increase Despite Surplus Supplies Windows-based Program on Display at WPX Still Time to Signup for Livestock Assistance Programs WTO is Reviewing Doha Documents Farm Groups Address 'Hype' Surrounding Ethanol Evaluate Alfalfa Fields for Harvest Timing It's Time to Scout Emerging Crop Stands As Black Cutworms Hatch, Economic Thresholds Drop Fungus Improves Corn-to-Ethanol Process Iowa Corn Crop 93% Planted, Soybeans 72% Planted USDA will Implement New Farm Bill to Best of Its Ability Schafer Confident Beef will be Heading to South Korea Soon Corn and Soybean Progress Improving; Wheat Still Slow Developing Pork Prices Increase Despite Surplus Supplies USDA Opens CRP Ground for Haying and Grazing CCSP Releases Report on Climate Changes Where Do You Get Weather Information? Another Delay to Beef Trade with South Korea Argentine Farmers Promise Action DDGS Market Budding in North Africa, Mature in Israel Argentine Farm Talks Break Down Again Iowa Groups Hail Passage of Federal Farm Bill Still Time to Return Your Ag Census Forms Hybrid Vigor Difference Visible to the Row Iowa Corn Is Having Emergence Problems Weed Control Timing Is Critical To Protect Corn Yield President Touts Importance of Agribusiness in Global Trade Coalition Remains Committed to Helping Livestock Farmers House and Senate Override Farm Bill Veto Trade Ministers Must Move Doha Talks Forward Little Change Expected in 2009 Meat Exports JBS Contracts Require Feedlots to Waive Rights One Step Forward, Two Steps Back for Farm Bill Alfalfa Management Practices Aid in Curing Process Congress Halfway to Veto Override Wild Weather Has Impacted Many Areas Crop Insurance Deadlines Loom JBS Wants Feedlots to Waive Rights Argentine Farm Talks Scheduled Biodiesel Tax Credit Extended President Vetoes Farm Bill Research Shows Low-Input Farming Systems Pay New Ethanol Legislation "Great for Iowa Consumers" MIG Welding Made Easy USDA Proposes Ban of Downer Cattle No Time to Waste for CSP Signup Potential Tariff Reduction Formulas Released in WTO Talks Authorities Investigating DFA DFA Investigated for Possible Price Manipulation Ban of Downer Cattle Proposed by USDA Good Progress Made in Corn Planting Corn Growers "Call to Action" to Defend RFS Still Behind Normal, But A Stellar Week For Planting Farm Bill Veto Could Happen Tuesday Chinese Earthquake Shouldn't Affect Grain Markets EPA Seeks Comments on RFS Waiver USDA Host New Conference on Food and Fuel Feedlots Beginning to Clear Backed Up Inventories Raindrops and Cool Temperatures Plague Some Areas Revised Texts for WTO Ag Negotiations Being Released Minimize Soybean Yield Loss from Late Planting Delayed Preemergence Herbicide Applications For Corn Heritage Catalog for Ferguson, MF and MH Cattle on Feed Report Shows Record Marketing SunEthanol Wins DOE Grant Black Cutworm Advisory Issued For Iowa Don't Switch Corn Hybrid Maturities—Not Yet Iowa Cattlemen Promote May Beef Month Grassley Takes to Senate Floor to Defend Ethanol Administration Still Plans to Veto Farm Bill Final Rule on Livestock Price Reporting Issued Biodiesel Tax Incentive is Extended Senate Passes Farm Bill USDA Issues Final Rule on Livestock Price Reporting USDA Issues Final Rule on Livestock Price Reporting USDA Issues Final Rule on Livestock Price Reporting Square Yard Bales from Massey Ferguson Farm Bill Makes it over First Hurdle Ponds Found to Take Up Carbon Like World's Oceans South Korean Beef Trade Delayed Almost 400 Arrested in Immigration Raid Biobased Product Groupings Designated House Approves Farm Bill Mercy For Animals Accuses Gemperle of Lying U.S. Beef Won't be Headed to South Korea This Week May Agriculture Crossword ISU-ConocoPhillips Collaboration Advances 26 Projects Iowa Agriculture Continues to Lead Nation Farmers Urged To Consider Replant Option House Takes Up Farm Bill Cold More of a Problem than Wet Senate Votes to Stop Deposits to Oil Reserve Iowa Lags With 46% of It's Corn Acres Planted Iowa Farm Bureau Calling for Veto Override Farmers Making Progress with Corn Planting NASS Making Final Push to Complete Ag Census Undercover Video was Staged Slower than Expected Growth in Dairy Industry Population Study in the Ground CSP Sign-up Will Run Through May 30 Iowa Receives Funds to Promote Specialty Crops Schafer Says President Committed to Veto At-a-glance Temp and Humidity Readings Dairy Industry Growing Slower than Expected NAIS May Play a Role in Implementing COOL Ethanol Incentives Don't Fuel Food Costs Tips For Coping With Delayed Soybean Planting President Will Veto Farm Bill Celebrate May Beef Month in Iowa Conference Committee Releases Farm Bill Report Midwest Senators Oppose RFS Waiver Large Wheat Crop May Not Drop Prices CSP Sign-up Extended Checkoff Chairman Calls on Iowans to 'Stand Up for Corn' How Much Corn Planted In Iowa Depends On Location Farm Bill Agreement Reached U.S. Livestock Allowed into Russia Senate Hearing Questions Use of Ethanol Subsidies HSUS Releases More Videotape Host of Crop Protectants Get Approved Should You Plow up Your Alfalfa Stand? Deadline June 1 for Century and Heritage Farms Debate Continues on Blame for High Food Prices House Holds Hearing on RFS Implications National Sorghum Checkoff Approved When Is It too Late to Plant Forages? Iowa Has Only 18% Of Its Corn Planted Republican Senators Join Assault on Ethanol FTC Challenges Agrium's Purchase of UAP Planting Progress in Midwest Still a Mixed Bag Congress Schedules Hearing on Concentration in Agriculture Slow Emergence Saving Winter Wheat Crop Time for Another Shot at 300-bushel Corn NIMBLE Registered for Small Grains Another Request for Ethanol Waiver Argentina Strike Resumes Pay Attention to Planter Adjustment in Wet Soils Manage 2,4-D Carefully For No-till Burndown Weed Control USDA Purchasing Pork USDA and DHS Hold Joint Conference Iowa Farmers Finding Places To Plant New Farm Bill All But Done Iowa's Future Bolstered by FFA and Agriculture Iowa Agriculture Making Environmental Improvements Congress Sends Farm Extension to President Increased Food Costs Not Caused by Single Factor State Attorney Generals Asked to Investigate JBS China Causing Grain Shortage Two-Week Extension of Farm Bill New Source for Soybean Production Information Nominations Open for 2008 Spencer Award Deadline Approaching for Dairy Disaster Sign-up Farm Bill Conference on Hold Major Changes Made in Farm Bill Commodity Title USDA Honors Dee River Ranch for Conservation April Showers are Stretching into May Iowa FFA Elects New State Leaders Soil Management & Land Valuation Conference May 21 Hard to Tell What Will Happen with Farm Bill New Directory Will Help Pesticide Applicators Avoid Drift Damage Final Pew Report Proposes Changes for Animal Production Ethanol is Under Attack Dairy Industry Launches Environmental Initiative Watch Fields Closely If You Delay Weed Control Only 3% Of Iowa Corn Acres Planted Hay Prices Are Going Through the Roof Farm Bill Meeting Rescheduled FSA Releases Farm Information Beef Board Begins Process to Analyze, Change Checkoff FDA Sued for Food Inspection Work Plans FDA Approves Baytril 100 for Swine FDA Approves Baytril 100 for Swine Farm Bill Conference Committee Meeting Postponed Resist Temptation to Take Shortcuts Just to Plant Texas Seeks Ethanol Exemption Conference Committee Working Out Final Details of Farm Bill Leopold Center Working With New York Food & Ag Center Beef Producers Learn From Trade Mission to Mexico FDA Withdraws StarLink Testing Guidance Farm Bill Funding Breakthrough Congress Passes Farm Bill Extension Did Harsh Winter Kill Crop Insects? Iowa Soybean Rust ID System Gets Overhaul Colombian Trade Ticker Launched Reversing Animal Infertility Australia Clears JBS to Acquire Tasman Senate Extends Farm Bill Corn Planting Finally Gets Started In Iowa Delay Burndown Herbicide Application In No-till? AWB Barred from USDA Export Programs Plenty of Potential for U.S. Beef in South Korea Karcher Offers Hand-truck Washer Design NPPC asks USDA to Address Pork Industry Crisis FDA Releases Final BSE Feed Rule WTO Talks Remain Sluggish Utah State Student Named Young Animal Scientist Hemorrhagic Bowel Syndrome Full-Season Hybrids Best Choice, Even if Planting Is Delayed ISU Extension Updates its Soil Fertility Web Site Bush Asks For Longer Extension of Farm Bill Argentine Talks Break Down CFTC Explores Market Conditions A Gut-Level Green Issue Argentine Wheat Register Closed Indefinitely STEP-UP Gives You a Pickup Boost Corn, Barley and Oat Acres Cut by Canada Carbon Offset Web site Launched Study Shows Ethanol is More Efficient Farmers Want Ag Weather Program Returned to WOI-AM Don't Create Problems for Your Crops This Spring On-line "On the Road" Is a Ford Feature President Signs Extension; Congress Still Has Steep Climb South Korea Opens Market to U.S. Beef Base Cropping Decisions on Long-Term - Not One Year Doha Deal Needed This Year Cattle on Feed Report Bullish High Production; Low Profits in the Hog Industry U.S. and South Korea Agree to Beef Deal Beef Production Higher than Expected Hog Industry Seeing High Production; Low Profits Cattlemen's Foundation Awards $3,000 in Scholarships Farm Bill Remains Up in the Air Conference on Livestock Odor Reduction May 19-21 Comment Period Closes on NAIS Business Plan More Beef Production than Predicted Senate Extends Farm Bill Global Trade is Slowing Down Climate Change Conference April 25 at ISU Power Fund Moves on Renewable Energy Proposals House Passes One-Week Extension of Farm Bill USDA Barter Initiative Will Help Feed Hungry USDA Implements NAIS Business Plan Strategy Immigration Raid at Five Pilgrim's Pride Plants NAIS Business Plan Strategy Implemented by USDA U.S. Pork Exports Continue to Break Records Got Dairy Cows? Check Out This Survey N.Y. Reactivates Milk Marketing Advisory Council Canadian Hog Cull Underway NAIS Business Plan Strategy Implemented by USDA NAIS Business Plan Strategy Implemented by USDA Stockyards in South St. Paul Hold Final Sale Conference Committee Approves Farm Bill Titles Midwest Has to Deal with Another Storm Fuel Costs Drive 2008 Custom Rates Higher PTO Incident Survivor Spreads Word on Farm Safety Farm Bureau Urges Changes to Temporary Worker Program Funding Remains Major Roadblock for Farm Bill Wanted: People Passionate about Pork Farm Groups Call for Stop to U.S.-Korean Beef Talks What If You Don’t Have Fertilizer Applied Yet? Planting Time Decisions Are Critical for Soybeans Conference Committee Agrees on Farm Bill Programs Corn Planting and Wheat Development Behind Schedule South St. Paul Stockyards Hold Final Sale ODA Amends Dairy Labeling Rule Halt to U.S.-Korean Beef Talks Asked for by Farm Groups April Crossword Puzzle Senate Counters House Farm Bill Proposal Don't Be Discouraged With Soggy Start Are Corn Prices Really at a Record Level? Interest Grows In Narrow Rows Preliminary Injunction Dismissal Denied in Labeling Case CSP Workshops This Week for Middle Iowa Watershed Southwest Wheat Projected Below Average Ag Exports Shattering Records Oil Not Corn at Heart of Rising Food Prices Follow-Up Planned for Food Summit House Succeeds in Delaying Colombian Free Trade Agreement. Farm Bill Conference Stumbles U.S. Resumes Beef Import Talks with South Korea U.S. Resumes Beef Import Talks with South Korea Iowa No. 1 in Producing Its Power from Wind How to Cope With High Feed Costs Leave the Steering to FarmPRO U.S. Resumes Beef Import Talks with South Korea JBS Acquisitions Are Still Being Questioned Will Wet Start Mean Even More Soybeans In 2008? House Names Farm Bill Conference Committee Deere Launches Two New Tractor Lines New Money Approved for Water Quality Projects ISU Partnership to Cooperate on Biofuels Research Colombia FTA Vote In Jeopardy Anti-Trust Laws May Need to be Revisited The Farm Bill: When? Youth PQA Phase-Out Concludes June 1 DeLauro Pushes for NAIS Compliance on Federal Procurement DeLauro Pushes for NAIS Compliance on Federal Procurement DeLauro Pushes for NAIS Compliance on Federal Procurement Several Ways USDA is Fighting Bovine TB Several Ways USDA is Fighting Bovine TB Several Ways USDA is Fighting Bovine TB Another Extension of Farm Bill Not Out of Question I-LEAD Accepting Applications for Ag Leadership Class Culver Signs Surface Water Protection Act Schafer Discusses Colombian FTA USDA Fighting Bovine TB More CRP Going to Crop Production China Boosts Hog and Poultry Subsidies Food Safety Summit Comes to Washington Rural America Issues Aren't Red or Blue Nematodes in Soil Can Damage Corn Pressure Rises for Farm Bill Decision Bush Sends Colombian FTA to Congress USDA Hosting Food Safety Summit Sow Lameness Symposium Held USDA Changes Meat Inspection Procedures USDA Changes Meat Inspection Procedures USDA Changes Meat Inspection Procedures A Pair of Bears for 2008 Pioneer to Treat its New Soybean Varieties with CruiserMaxx Beans Two Weeks Until Farm Bill Deadline USDA Changes Inspection Procedures Problems for Crops Keep Expanding First-ever Sow Lameness Symposium Held Iowa Hog Producers Looking at More Red Ink Soggy Soils Could Mean Big N Losses This Spring When Will Right Planting Window Appear? Carver and Wallace to Be Featured at Lecture Farm Safety Advocate Is 'America's Greatest Hometown Hero' House Members Join Conservation Groups Against Cutting Farm Bill Conservation Farm Bill Keeps Grinding Forward Schering-Plough Program to Affect All People, Units Livestock Producers Number One Consumer for U.S. Soybeans Smithfield Names New Pork Team Seminar on Swine Disease Draws Crowd in China Operation Strip-Till Gets Rolling in Iowa Rules Proposed for Deer Control in Iowa Offsets Still the Major Problem for Farm Bill Wet Spring Troublesome; But Bigger Problems Could Follow Monsanto Plans Expansion in Louisiana Comments on Two CAFO Issues Are Due Partnership to Help Advance Cellulosic Ethanol Conversion Technology Farmers Rethinking Planting Plans Grassley Pushing for Higher Blends of Ethanol More Rain Coming for South and Midwest Weather Watchers Say Odds Favor Dry Summer Corn Growers Take 2 in the Ethanol Debate Argentine Wheat Exports Set to Open Next Week Rising Pork Output Pressures Prices Pioneer Releases Information to Advance Corn Research EPIC Responds to Time Article U.S. Proposes to Merge CFTC and SEC WTO Rules Against EU on Beef Hormones Pesticide Drift Reduction Starts Now EPC Limits Manure Application on Soybeans Swine Disease Seminar Draws Crowd in China Hog Cost/Price Squeeze Hog Numbers Higher than Expected Winter Annual Weeds Pop Up in No-till Fields CSP Sign-Up Begins April 18 in Selected Watersheds U.S. Still Accepting Renewable Energy Pledges Hogs and Pigs Report Shows Record Inventories Stopping Stalk Rot Starts Now Conservation Groups Send Letter to Ag Leadership Major Cattle Agreement Reached Between U.S. and Mexico Major Cattle Agreement Reached Between U.S., Canada and Mexico Colombia Agreement Headed to the Hill Check Alfalfa Stands for Signs of Winterkill Consider Options to Control Common Stalk Borer Bobcat Enters Tractor Market Wheat Condition in Southern Plains Going Downhill CSP Details Published in Federal Register JBS Acquisition of National Beef, Smithfield and Five Rivers Still Being Fought Brazil Soybean Crop Breaking Records Staff Still Struggling Through Farm Bill Changes Proposed in Price Limits on Futures Contracts ISU Extension Agronomist on Expert Biofuels Panel Racing Team Turns to Ethanol Small-Scale Biodiesel Can Benefit Cattle Ranches Higher Milk Production Expected in 2008 Should You Grow Some Spring Wheat? ISU Extension Crop Production News Now Online Milk Production Increases in 2008 Cattle Ranches Can Benefit from Small-Scale Biodiesel Research Clarifies Effect of Feeding DDGs When Mead E3 Biorefinery Reopens Remains Unclear High Beef Demand Continues Conversion of Pasture to Cropland Consider Fungicide Seed Treatment for Beans Beware of Soybean Seed Quality Problems Beef Demand Remains High Chinese Crops Hurting from Drought Flood Waters Are Headed South Ag Leader Offers Entry-level Guidance System Egg Association and Humane Group form Relationship UN Agency Asks for More Aid Food Company Chief Attacks Biofuels Support Seek Good Sources for Pasture Herbicides Community Service Grants Available from FFA Iowa Farmland Values Up 11% in Past Six Months New Iowa Master Farmers Named for 2008 Nitrogen Results Become More Significant New Mahindra Available Johne's Funding Commitment Renewed NRCS Soil Maps Now Available on the Web Schools Promised Reimbursement for Recalled Beef Farmers Reminded to Contact Iowa One Call National Ag Day Puts Iowa Farmers in Spotlight USDA Renews Johne's Funding Commitment Pfizer Acquires Catapult and Bovigen Pfizer Acquires Catapult and Bovigen Pfizer Acquires Catapult and Bovigen Preview of USDA Hog Inventory Report Preview of USDA Hog Inventory Report New Boomer Does More Than Mow Eggs: Great Food for the Iowa Economy Factors Besides Biofuels Are Affecting Crop Prices Planting Advancing Rapidly in South Conservation Security Sign-up is Announced USDA Names New Deputy Financial Officer Brazil's Soy Harvest Moving Quickly 2008 Iowa Corn Indy 250 Race Set for June 22 2008 Buy Fresh Buy Local Campaign Announced Schafer Discusses Administration Position on Farm Bill WTO Meetings Show Promise Canada Seeks Comments on DDGS Feed Rules Producers Planning to Shift Acres Back to Soybeans Beginning Farmer "Bank of the Year" Award Announced Market Needs More Low-lin Soybean Acres Aussie Wheat Crop Critical for World Wheat Stocks NASS Still Accepting Ag Census Ag Week Celebrates Agriculture CME Merges with NYMEX Reorganization of NCBA Staff Universal Remote for Tarping Schafer Supports Farm Bill Extension Corn Illustrated Results Don’t Back Seed Rate Increases Caution Advised on Soybean Cyst Nematode Control Farmers Face Glyphosate Price Hike Argentine Strike Continues NCBA Reorganizes Staff Cattle Industry Loses Leader Cancer Claims Livestock Leader How to Make Renewable Fuels Sustainable Learn How to Market Fruits and Vegetables Annual Iowa FFA Convention Is April 14-15 Bush Says He'll Sign Farm Bill Extension Two New Cutters Available Westland/Hallmark Meat Chief Admits Failures at Plant Opportunities for Trade Plentiful in Africa Failures at Westland/Hallmark Admitted by Company President Do You Want to Get into the Hog Business? Apply for USDA Renewable Energy Grants & Loans Farm Bill Extension is Official USDA Creates New Office for Small Meat Plants Lack of Rain Giving Southwest Jump on Planting Glyphosate Resistant Johnsongrass Confirmed New Herbicide for Winter Wheat Pay Limits Still Being Pushed Iowa Is Increasing Turkey Production Consider Side-by-Side Corn Fungicide Trials Storms Keep Coming Through Midwest China Encouraging Soybean Imports Ag Leadership Agrees on Extension Deere Announces Tier 4 Mission Technology for Larger Engines National Ag Day Essay Winner Announced New Office Created for Small Meat Plants New Office Created for Small Meat Plants New Office Created for Small Meat Plants It's Gonna Be a "Rubber Boot" Spring Biofuel Mandates Will Keep Crop Prices High in 2008 Crop Insurance Will Cost More In 2008 USDA Wants Faster Reporting of Food Illnesses Early CRP Release Still a Big Issue Pilgrim's Pride Sells Turkey Plant Woody Biomass Projects Receive Grants from USDA Chevron Offers New "Diesel" Oils Even Glyphosate Tolerance has its Limits Corn Growers Debate Key National Policies Iowa Soybean Growers Help Set Policy Priorities Farm Bill Deadline is Fast Approaching Brazil Soy Crop Estimates Raised Rains Delay Argentine Corn Harvest Iowa Farm Agritourism Conference Is March 15 Cattle Processors Losing Money Took Opportunity to Sell Surplus Kill Capacity behind JBS Acquisitions Harkin Says Farm Bill is in Reach Deere Collectors Will Gather March 11-12 Researchers Are Studying Switchgrass as a Renewable Fuel Dow Acquires Triumph Seeds Disaster Assistance for Dairy Producers Finally Available Iowa Beef Council Elects New Officers Unlocking the 'Magic' Behind Iowa's Corn Crop Inputs Eating into Farm Income Dairy Signup Begins WIREC Dedicated to Increasing Renewable Fuels Globally Ethanol Industry Gets Shot in Arm from Report FAPRI Says Agriculture's Economic Outlook is Strong National Beef Packing Company Being Sold U.S. Premium Beef Selling National Beef Packing Company Farmers Growing Wheat Urged to Interseed Clover Culver Introduces Energy Plan to Legislature No Partial 2007 Countercyclical Payments Biomass Research Gets Big Boost in Funding Changes to Regulation of CAFO Permits No Pretty Picture for Pork Producers Group Opposes Glyphosate Resistant Sugarbeets New Iowa Field Guide Available for Soybeans Bill Introduced in Legislature to Boost Ethanol Sales Administration Concedes Ground in Farm Bill Fight New Tool for Wheat Weed Control Water Quality Grant Funding What Would Permanent Law Mean USDA Awards Weed Grants Andean Trade Extension Signed Global Trade Talks are Doable Sidedress Application Worth a Close Look This Year Companies Consider Building Ethanol Pipeline Control Erosion and Keep in Compliance Farm Bill Financing Still Not Resolved AMI President Testifies on Hallmark/Westland Issues to Senate Subcommittee New Organization Working To Quantify Sustainable Agriculture Monsanto Develops Second Generation Soybean Scholarship Winners Announced at Classic Political Analyst: McCain Will Have Uphill Battle Schafer: Agriculture's Boom Spearheaded by Trade Ford and John Deere Commit To Using More Soybeans in Production Insurance Product Geared to Ethanol Market Product Aims at Stress Reduction Iowa Corn Growers Visit Brazil Iowa NRCS Names New State Resource Conservationist Crop Insurance Deadline March 17 Senate Subcommittee Holds Hearing on Hallmark/Westland Issues Glauber Appointed Permanent USDA Chief Economist Cleavinger to Take Reins of NAWG Company Working to get EPA to Rethink Refuge NCGA, ASA Outline Policy Goals for 2008 Corn Grower CEO Defends Biofuel Mandates ISU College of Agriculture Presents Awards How to Reduce Nitrate Losses from Fields? Global Demand for Glyphosate is Outpacing Capacity Corn Growers Still Expect New Farm Bill House Extends Andean Trade Act Bayer CropScience Executive Sees Bright Future Farmers Worry Over Input Costs, Markets, Weather U.S. Wheat is Needed by the World Two Iowans Appointed to New EPA Panel Iowa's Marilyn Adams Wins National Award Multiple-Resistance Weeds: Coming to a Field near You? Congress Still Negotiating Farm Bill Number Winter Weather Just Won't Quit New BSE Case Confirmed in Alberta New BSE Case Confirmed in Alberta Some Farmers Have Additional Time to eFile Tax Returns New Holland Introduces T1510 Policy Expert Says Hillary Clinton Best for Agriculture New BSE Case Confirmed in Alberta New BSE Case Confirmed in Alberta New BSE Case Confirmed in Alberta Doha Will Impact Future Negotiations Survey Indicates More Soybean Acres Poet Teams Up With ISU on Corn Starch Study Seeds May be in Short Supply Ethanol Industry Outlook Released LMA Asks High Court to Hear Horse Plant's Case ISU Talks Biofuels, Healthy Oils and 'Pharma Crops' Frost Seeding Time Is Here for Pasture Improvement Acres Stampede Back to Soybeans from Corn Planting Pattern Still Intriguing Question Federal Agencies Find No Risk from Seed Contamination Corn Stocks to Tighten but Prices Should Strengthen U.S. Extension Service Extends Its Reach With eXtension Web Portal EPA Selects Citizens for New Agricultural Advisory Committee USDA Holds Technical Briefing on Hallmark/Westland Recall Too Busy To Report The Good News 'Farming Matters' Forum To Be Held March 25 Good Years Ahead for U.S. Agriculture Presidential Cabinet Members will Participate in WIREC Distiller Grains Exports Nearly Double U.S. Ag Exports to Top 2007 Record by Wide Margin Demand for Grain is Straining U.S. Supply ACWA Expands Into the Des Moines River Watershed Make Right Choices on 2008 Crop Insurance NASDA President Discusses Castro Resignation Annual Agricultural Outlook Forum is This Week EPA Announces Advisory Committee Study Shows Technology May not be Cause of Increased Corn Yield Trends Minnesota Finds another TB Herd Smithfield Begins Sow Reduction New IDALS Staff to Focus On Urban Conservation Senate Receives Counter-offer from House Smithfield Begins Sow Reduction Magellan, Buckeye Partners Studying Midwest Ethanol Pipeline Annual Iowa Water Quality Conference Feb. 26-27 Dryness Pushes Down Argentine Crop Yields Companies Sharing Insect Control Technology Biofuels Bill Introduced In Iowa Legislature Companies Sharing Insect Control Technology Monsanto Makes Big Donation to World Food Prize Foundation New Compact Utility from John Deere Canada Sending Record Number of Hogs Ag Secretary Thanks State Ag Departments Winter Weather Has Helped Western Water Situation New Herbicide Launched for Soybeans Canada Sending Record Number of Hogs UNL Report Shows Byproducts Aid Dairymen 'Business As Usual' Farm Bill Falls Short ISA Weighs In On Alternative Farm Bill Plan Something Not Natural About Killing Healthy Corn Plants Animal Cruelty Charges Filed Animal Cruelty Charges Filed Senate Makes Funding Proposal Doubts Raised About Recent Global Warming Studies Animal Cruelty Charges Filed Progress Made on Farm Bill Retail Beef Prices May Come Down John Ikerd Headlines Shivvers Lecture Feb. 24 Apply for 2008 Value-Added Producer Grants Finding a Final Number for Funding the Farm Bill Ritchie Industries Deepens the Pond Retail Beef Prices May Come Down Retail Beef Prices May Come Down Biobased Product Showcase Scheduled USTR Files Appeal to WTO Call Before You Dig This Spring ISU Alum to Take a Look at the Next 150 Years House Framework Rejected by Agriculture Groups Winter Weather Could Cause Problems for Wheat Net Farm Income Will Likely Set Record International Symposium on Beef Cattle Welfare Set for May 28-30 House Releases Framework for Farm Bill Iowa Congressman Cites Need for More Veterinarians USDA Releases Advance Copy of 10-Year Projections Soybeans Continue to Stay Strong Korean Beef Trade May Resume Soon From the Fuel Pump to the Classroom Study Claims Biofuels Could Worsen Global Warming OEFFA Calls Milk Labeling Ruling 'Extreme' The Beef Buck Stops Here WTO Deadline Approaches for U.S. Appeal Dupont and Precision BioSciences Reach Agreement Iowa Grape Industry Provides Significant Economic Activity Lawmakers Encouraged to Support "Surface Water Protection Act" Brazil May Extend Wheat Tax Exemption Farm Numbers Shrink as Size Increases BoomPilot Offers Section Control New Ag Secretary Talks Better Beef Trade New Ag Secretary Talks Better Beef Trade New Ag Secretary Talks Better Beef Trade GIPSA Proposes Last Minute Rule National Stewardship Award Announced National Stewardship Award Announced NCBA Adopts Policy to Increase Beef Checkoff USDA Provides Update on Meat Packing Investigation DuPont Pledges $1 Million to World Food Prize IDALS Recognizes Top Renewable Fuel Marketers Time to Trust Nitrogen Trials! Officials Oppose Sugar Proposals NCBA Adopts Policy to Increase Beef Checkoff NCBA Adopts Policy to Increase Beef Checkoff More Census Forms to be Mailed GIPSA Proposes Last Minute Rule National Stewardship Award Announced Delegates to Discuss Challenges Facing the Pork Industry Try a Tarp Grabber! Corn Growers Say Farm Bill Falls Short Corn Will Dominate Cattle Market in 2008 Corn Will Dominate Cattle Market in 2008 Corn Will Dominate Cattle Market in 2008 USDA Offers Grants to Assist Value-Added Ag Projects Farmers Market Workshop Set for Feb. 23 Harkin Pushing Forward With Farm Bill Brazil Cuts Wheat Import Tax Settlement Reached in BSE Lawsuit Settlement Reached in BSE Lawsuit Supply-Demand Forecasts Come Out Friday Argentine Corn Sales Explode Settlement Reached in BSE Lawsuit President Reiterates Veto Threat Veterinarian Loan Hearing Ohio Releases New Rule on Dairy Labeling Online Calculator Helps Figure Food Crop Profitability Iowa Renewable Fuels Summit Draws Huge Crowd Grassley Will Take Pay Limits to Conference American Farmland Trust President Will Step Down Farm Bill Main Topic of Ag Commissioners Meeting Biodiesel Yields Higher Energy Balance Budget Coming Under Fire Changes Proposed for Farm Worker Program Suspension at Hallmark/Westland Meat Company Nominations Being Accepted for Environmental Award Winter Storm Moves Across the U.S. ISU Extension Offers Ag Drainage Workshop Working Americans Find Grocery Bills Easier to Pay Than Taxes Solution to Energy Independence Is At Local Level Biodiesel Meets Fuel Quality Standards More Countries Approve New Biotech Beans E. coli Vaccine Moves Closer We Review Arctic Cat's 700 Auto Diesel Farm Bill Conference Members Named More Countries Approve New Biotech Beans Longer Comment Period for Livestock Label Rule Longer Comment Period for Livestock Label Rule Longer Comment Period for Livestock Label Rule USDA Proposed Budget Released New List Of SCN-Resistant Soybean Varieties For Iowa Ethanol Sales Reach Nearly 74% of Gasoline Market in 2007 Growing Dairy Herd Growing Dairy Herd Working Groups Help Producers Delay for Dairy Disaster Assistance Sign-up Longer Comment Period for Livestock Label Rule Longer Comment Period for Livestock Label Rule Delay for Dairy Disaster Assistance Sign-up Learn More About Right Way to Apply Manure ICGA Launches "Kernels of Truth" Campaign Right Population to Plant Remains a Mystery U.S. Cattle Brucellosis Free U.S. Cattle Brucellosis Free Bovine TB Detected at Fresno County Dairy Former Purdue Dean Earl Butz Succumbs at 98 U.S. Cattle Brucellosis Free Downturn of Cattle Cycle Bovine TB Detected at Fresno County Dairy Cattle Cycle on Downturn Ford Rolls Out 2009 F-150 National Pork Board Names 2008 Celebrated Chefs Wind Will Play Large Role in Energy Future Harkin Hopes to Move Forward on Farm Bill IDALS Launches New Farm-To-School Program State Egg Producer Group Gives ISU Big Gift Deadline Looms for Census of Agriculture Marketing Expansion of Low Linolenic Soybeans Bush to Propose Ethanol Tariff Change Study Shows Evolution of Meatcase Demand for ISU Ag Graduates Remains Strong Snow Cover Can Make a Difference in Nitrogen Applied to Wheat Fields Iowa Beef Expo Set for Feb. 10-17 in Des Moines Charges of Slaughterhouse Cruelty Being Investigated Farm Bill is First Priority for Schafer GAO Looks at Food Safety Oversight First Commercial American Cellulosic Ethanol Plant Rural Infrastructure Loans Available USDA Investigating Charges of Slaughterhouse Cruelty Partnerships Leading Way for U.S. Ethanol Industry High Food Prices Could Help Trade Talks Naturally Raised Comment Period Extended Hay Expo Returns to Northeast Iowa Argentina Reopens Registries Schafer Meets With President Bush Dynamic Weather Conditions Packer Price Reporting Ruling USDA Rural Development Names Top Lender Do You Want to Build Cattle Feedlot or Hog Barn? Crustbuster Offers Drive-Over Pit Woods Offers Counter-rotating Tiller Plant Corn on Corn or Go Back to Beans in 2008? Iowa Electric Co-ops Add $1.1 billion to Local Economies Senate Confirms New Ag Secretary CME, Nymex in Merger Talks WTO Sets Target for Trade Talks Lower Argentine Corn Yields Ethanol Contract Replacement Crop Insurance Coverage Enough Infrastructure for Ethanol? Iowa Retains Crop Production Crown Approximately 33% of Worker Deaths Are Farmer Buis Urges Action Roto-Mix Offers New Vertical Units How to Grow Whopper Ears New Conservation Program Disaster Payment Sign-up Underway Schafer Hearing Goes Smoothly More Landowners Signing Up for Carbon Credits Water Quality, Livestock Odor on Legislative Agenda Two New Deere Skid Steers Economic Slowdown Won't Affect Agriculture Much Emergency Funding for Moth Eradication Iowa Power Farming Show January 29-31 Fire at CBOT Could Complicate Trading Today Schafer Confirmation Hearing Two Fuels from One Kernel of Corn Consider Sharing Labor and Machinery Vermeer Launches 40 Series Disc Mowers More Market Access for U.S. Beef New Biofuel Process Shows Promise Egg Web Site Launched New Challenge of Roundup Ready Bobcat Unveils Three New Compact Tractors Predictions of a Warm Spring Iowa Cattlemen's Association Elects New Board Members Help Keep Iowa's Farms in the Family No Need to Renegotiate NAFTA Freezing Temperatures Hit U.S. TB Confirmed in Minnesota Minimal Risk Restrictions Removed Lows Hold in Early Grain Market Trade Congress Back After Break Market Access Benefits Both Parties Sunflower 4412 Aimed at Residue Management Germination Issues Affecting Soybean Seed Soybean Growers List Policy Priorities for 2008 Lower Milk Prices Possible in 2008 Capturing More Sunlight Key to Future Yields WTO Deal Still Possible E85 Sales Continue to Grow in Iowa Livestock Odor Project Still a Priority for DNR Add-on Cargo Light Makes Sense Food Prices on the Rise DDGS Head to Algeria FDA Expands Acheson's Role One Millionth Acre Enrolled in CREP Lincoln Vista Helmet Blinks Bigger Northey Plans to Visit All 99 Counties Again in 2008 Culver to Keynote Renewable Fuels Summit Jan. 3 Renewable Energy Conference Attracting Attention Helping Cold Stressed Livestock AgroFresh and Syngenta Form Alliance EU Fails to Respond to WTO Lease Agreement Reached by NPPC and NPB AFBF Votes to Support COOL Soybean Association Launches Membership Campaign USDA Rural Development Invests $371 Million in Iowa "E" Model Deere Means "Electricity" Opinions Mixed on Clone Announcement Cattle Risk Management Workshops to Be Held Across Iowa Iowa Legislature Begins 2008 Session Biomass Advisory Committee Members Appointed Farm Bureau Elects Leaders FDA Approves Cloned Products What’s Ahead For Crop Prices? National Pork Board CEO Resigns ISU Beginning Farmers Conference Is Jan. 26 Animal Welfare a Heated Issue GM Partners with Ethanol Company Vet Group Reorganizing as Part of HSUS Key Meat Markets Should Reopen Soon EU Lags on Biotech Dispute Changes Final Brief Filed in Cattle Case Dodge Makes Statement at North American International Auto Show Sometimes Luck Helps! Iowa Fruit & Vegetable Growers Annual Meeting Jan. 24-25 Corn Farmers Need to Crunch Numbers for 2008 Farm Bill Veto a Serious Threat Sunco/AcuraTrak Hones Three-point Guidance Schafer Hearing Scheduled Farm Bill Not On Road To Passage Murphy Resigns U.S. Delegation Travels to Mexico City Farm Bill Needs to Get Done Quickly ISA On-Farm Network Conference Is Feb. 20 Iowa Farmers Urged to Fill Out Ag Census Will Doha Round Be Completed in 2008? Farm Bill Compromise Faces Tough Sledding RX for Off-season "Lock Up" Changes to Regulations of Chemicals Big Kioti and Upgrades Unveiled Iowans Urged to Apply for Soil Conservation Loans Biotech Yield Endorsement Approved by RMA New Round of Crop Reports Coming Friday EU Won't Delay Ban on Cages Biodiesel Company Goes Belly Up Outbreak of Tornados; Flooding May Follow E. Coli Use in Biofuel Production Iowans Appointed to Soybean Transportation Board Farm Credit Vital to Meeting Energy Bill's Biofuel Goals Senators Travel to Europe No Definition of 'Natural' Scholarship Deadline Extended Grain Standards for Distillers Grains Nebraska Study Finds Major Potential in Switchgrass Ethanol Tackle Waterhemp with Practical Solutions Spencer Award to Be Presented to Linn County Farmer Farmtrac Upgrades Small Tractor Line Pork Groups Team Up with Illinois Corn Growers on DDGS Research Veto Threat could be Negotiation Tactic Breakthrough on Avian Flu USDA Proposes Horse Transport Rule Pork Groups Team Up with Illinois Corn Growers on DDGS Research One Year’s Data is Just That - One Year! Ethanol Helping Americans Battle Back as Crude Oil Hits $100 Soy Task Force Calls for Industry Change Kawasaki Counters RZR with Teryx 750 Funding Deal Needed for Farm Bill Leadership Changes at FDA New Working Documents Issued by WTO Appropriations Bill Expands Disaster Aid New Yamaha Rhino Earns High Praise Second Annual Iowa Renewable Fuels Summit Jan. 31 Grazing Summit Is January 11 in Des Moines Nasty Conditions in Midwest; Another Storm on the Way NASS Administrator Retires Energy Merger Advances Write About Cooperatives for $500 Scholarship Is Now a Good Time to Sell Land? Project Fosters Custom Grazing in Iowa Census of Agriculture Surveys Are Being Mailed Full Implementation of NAFTA Association to Give Away Free Polypay Starter Flock Collins' Retirement Becomes Official Simpler Farm Loan Process New CBP Position Now Is Time to Learn How to Go Organic Retail Beef Prices on Rise Nitrogen Rate Study Held True to Form Iowa One Call to Host 'Damage Prevention 101' Food and Fuel Crops Can Co-Exist Soybean Rust Review Schmitt Is New State Veterinarian for Iowa Higher Soybean Acreage in 2008 2007 Was Wild Year for Weather in Iowa La Nina Has Arrived! Corn Industry Success Brazil Biodiesel Mandate ISA Sets Policy Priorities at Annual Meeting Iowa Renewable Fuels Association Continues to Grow Weather Trend Continues Hogs and Pigs Report Released Ammonium Nitrate Security Rethinking the Food Pyramid for One Group Census Packets Hit the Mail Soon High Cattle Feedlot Inventories Organic Farmer Mentoring Program Seeks Participants Learn to Manage Crop Profit Margins for 2008 Argentina Registry Stays Closed Applying Fungicides to Corn May Not Pay Biodiesel Performs Well in First Year of Truck Test Peterson Discusses Farm Bill Conference Conner Unhappy With Conference Bill Schools; Roads Receive Funding Livestock Farmers Wrestling With High Feed Costs Many Farmers Missing Out on High Yielding Beans Christmas Came Early for Corn Growers ICA Annual Convention Just Around the Corner Food Aid for the Hungry Farmer Could Have Paid for Irrigation System in One Year! USDA Funding Rural Development Initiatives New FSA Director Named 2008 Fungicide Application Requirements New Energy Bill Will Have Significant Impact on Economy CAST Releases New Report on Gene Flow in Biotech Crops Free Trips Offered to Farmers to Attend National Conference Change to Latitudes by Rain-X New Ag Trade Office in China Conservation Innovation Grants Available Biotech Alfalfa Regulations Changed Voluntary Incentive Program Unveiled to Reduce Livestock Odors ISU Synthetic Diesel Fuel Project Gets Grant Business Model for Animal ID Energy Bill Enacted Disaster Payments Issued Wet and Snowy December Isn't Over Yet New Swine Flu Identified New Swine Flu Identified President Signs Energy Bill Average Value Of Iowa Farmland Tops $3,900 Comment Period Reopened Commercial Manure Applicator Training Set for Jan. 4 BSE Diagnosed in Alberta House Sends Energy Bill to President WTO Issues Decision in Brazil-U.S. Cotton Dispute Manure Applicator Workshops Scheduled Amity Offers Air System New BSE Case Found In Canada Conservation and Agriculture Scholarships Offered Farmers Named to IFB Resolutions Committee New WTO Case against U.S. Programs Nebraska Becomes Tenth State to Register More Than Half of Animal Premises Energy Loan Guarantee Agreement New Chemical Pump National Corn Yield Contest Winners Announced Farm Bill Finished by Senate Three New Millermatics La Nina Impacts Winter Weather in Corn Belt Specialty Crop Growers Urged to Apply for Funds Proposed Rule for Naturally Raised Livestock Proposed Rule for Naturally Raised Proposed Rule for Naturally Raised Full-season hybrids Did Better Planted Early Full-season Hybrids Did Better Planted Early Rain in Argentina Gives Corn a Boost Peru FTA Signed Naturally Raised Rule Proposed Pilgrim's CEO Suffers Stroke Senate Votes to End Farm Bill Debate Senate Passes Energy Bill Iowa Seed Directory Provides Helpful Information Culver Calls on Congress to Support Continued Growth of Wind Energy PFI Announces Sustainable Ag Achievement Award Payment Limitations Rejected by Senate House Works toward Vote on Omnibus Spending Additional Aflatoxin Research Funds Requested Grassley-Dorgan Amendment Withdrawn Vote Scheduled for Subsidy Amendments Women in Denim Award Nominations Sought Farm Bill Extension Sought South Korean Market for U.S. Beef U.S., China Strengthen Biofuels Cooperation ARGO Off-Road DVD Fall Price Rally Lures More Acres Back to Corn EPA Approves New Corn Herbicide Poultry Can Be Fed Higher Levels of Distillers Grains CSIF Helped More Than 220 Farm Families in 2007 Action on Farm Bill Ice Storms Hard on Livestock Livestock, Ethanol Combination Best for Rural Communities China Lifts Ban on Pork Plants Beef Extravaganza To Be Held December 15 Christmas Tree Growers Make Generous Donations Action Expected on Farm Bill East Fork Biodiesel Plant at Algona Begins Production Court Denies Rehearing of Air Emissions Case Russia May Reopen to U.S. Beef Livestock Farmers Urged To Prepare For Severe Weather MacDon Unveils Harvesting Equipment on Tour Corn, Food Price Correlation Weak Picking Right Planting Date as Important as Planting Early Iowa Gives Out $563,800 to Spur Use of Biofuels Check Presidential Candidates on Agricultural Issues Picking Right Planting Date as Important as Planting Early Amendments Offered to Farm Bill Winter Storms Hit, More on Way Energy Bill passes House, Stopped in Senate Research Links E. coli to Dried Distillers Grain Farm Bill Deal Struck in Senate Renew Rural Iowa Celebrates First Year Study Shows Benefits of Farmer Efforts to Protect Water Quality Energy Bill Makes it Through House Senate Switches Cloture to Energy Bill Economic Policy Being Discussed in Japan Take Care of Stored Grain in Your Bins Always Practice Safety When Working Around Grain Farm Bill Outlook is Still Murky Pesticide Summit in Rome USDA Appoints Advisory Board Beef Plants Being Scrutinized Wheat Registry Remains Closed in Argentina Legislative Study Group Supports Plan to Mitigate Livestock Odors ISU Releases Pig Genetic Marker Technology Peru Trade Agreement Passes Senate Survey of Beef Processing Plants Premiums Offered for Pioneer Low-Lin Soybeans R-Calf Scholarship Applications Available Applications Available for R-Calf Scholarship Peru FTA Approved High Prices Mean No Countercyclical Payments Big Increase in Fall Tillage This Year in Iowa EQIP Provides Record $21.3 Million to Iowa Farmers in 2007 Farm Bill Future Still Unclear One More Hurdle for Peru FTA Asgrow and Dekalb Launch New Web Site Doosan Infracore Completes Acquisition of Bobcat New Holland Endorses B100 in its Diesel Engines Bob Wisner Retires from ISU Extension Uncertainty Remains as Congress Returns Argentine Frost May Have Caused More Damage Watershed Grants Awarded High Population Didn't Pay in Field-Scale Test High Population Didn't Pay in Field-Scale Test Dairy Disaster Program Signup Announced No Deal on Senate Farm Bill Debate New USDA Communications Director ISU Establishes Bioeconomy Institute Discovery of Rust Late in 2007 Was No Surprise China Drops Trade Subsidies FSIS Ends Extra Testing Grain and Livestock Industry to Benefit from New Available Software Crop Advantage Meetings Set for January Energy Deal is Near FSA Ballot Deadline Looms Smaller Soy Area in Mato Grosso Reaction to Collins Retirement New Dairy Web Site Helps Iowa Producers Anonymous Gift of $3 Million Funds Unique Endowment at ISU Signup Announced for Dairy Disaster Program Public Comments on Proposed Rule Sought Nebraska Ethanol Pipeline Discussed USDA Chief Economist Retires Senate Closer to Limiting Amendments to Farm Bill Iowa Farmers Elected to National Biodiesel Board Iowa Farm Bureau to Hold 89th Annual Meeting NCBA President-Elect Resigns Dry Conditions Plague Wheat Crop WTO Postpones Overturn of Biotech Ban Survey: Consumers Don't Fear Biotech Proposed Milk Rule Comment Period Refuge Planning Impacts Seed Purchase Decisions Get Questionable Cornstalk Bales Tested Before Feeding Rootworms are Unpredictable, if Nothing Else! Advisory Committee Needs Nominations Research Continues into Cause of Colony Collapse New Claas Corn Heads for Non-stop Harvest Seattle-Houston Joint Venture Targets Biodiesel Major Australia Supermarket Chain Turns up Nose to Biotech Bonus Option Offered on Carbon Credit Contracts Variety Test Results for Small Grains Available Freeze Scares Producers in Argentina PorkBridge Educational Series Enters Third Year A Farmer and a Nation Give Thanks America Needs to Thank Farmers Meat and Poultry Hotline Open on Thanksgiving FARMALL Makes a Comeback EU Looks at Capping Farm Subsidies Missouri Representative Says Window Still Open for Farm Bill Learn the Latest on Agricultural Drainage Sheep Program Offered at 28 Iowa Locations Thanksgiving Meal Cost Increases Food Stamp Grants Announced Poor Conditions for Winter Wheat Crop FSA County Elections Underway Canadian Cattle Entering the U.S. EPA Now Has Manual to Help Ethanol Plants Learn About the Power of Wind Keep the Water Warm More than Corn Borer Causes Dropped Ears Midwest States Sign Greenhouse Gas Reduction Accord Iowa Extends Harvest Weight Limit Exemption Farm Bill Action Still Stalled House Weighs in on Extending Current Farm Bill U.S. Delegation is Attending Agriculture Conference Philippines Opens Beef Market New Spreaders from Pequea Senate Cloture Vote Fails Environmental Agency Seeks Ag Committee Nominations Unique Program Pairs Farmers with ISU Specialists USDA to Pay $257 Million in CSP Payments Nationwide House Asks for Year Extension of Current Farm Bill Senate Holds Cloture Vote Japanese Prime Minister Visits Washington Quantity Loss Signup Underway New Yamaha Rhino Earns Good Marks New Power Tiller from Kuhn U.S. Faces WTO Complaint Senate Leadership Compromises on Farm Bill Amendments Conner Emphasizes Importance of Finishing Farm Bill 'Modern Marvels' to Showcase Future of Corn Iowa Carbon Credit Information Meeting Nov. 20 Harvest Is Wrapping Up In Iowa Apply for State Watershed Improvement Funds Iowa FFA Has Three National Winners in 2007 New Holland Supports 100% Biodiesel Energy Bill a Long Shot to be Completed This Year Drought-Like Conditions Hurting Winter Wheat New WTO Trade Text Released Hobart Handler 210 Loves Aluminum Show-Me a World Record New Book Tells Tale of the Masters Agritechnica is a 'Really Big Shew!' Iowa Forage and Grassland Conference Nov. 19-20 Farm Bill Extension is Possible Farm Bill Would Require Biobased Expo Cagle's Receives Buyout Offer No Movement on Farm Bill Interagency Import Safety Report Has Companion Oil Price Affecting Commodity Prices Changes in Acquisition Procedures for Biobased Products Iowans Applaud Override of Bush's WRDA Veto Biofuel Advocates Want to Loosen Rules for Farm Credit 'E' Model Deere Means Electricity New Holland Supports 100% Biodiesel Free Income Tax Seminar To Be Broadcast Across Iowa Veto Override Ends Wait for Lock Modernization New PQA Fact Sheet Helps Pork Producers Learn the Economics of Sharing Farm Equipment Positive Reaction to Peru Free Trade Agreement USDA Farm Loan Program Announces Changes Goodyear Expands Wrangler's Applications Senate Overrides WRDA Veto Peru Free Trade Agreement Passes House House Ag Committee Holds Hearing on Meat Recalls ISA Directors Support Biodiesel Incentives Winter Feeding Strategies Are Focus of Meetings FAO Report on High Food Prices USDA Announces Funding for Whole Genome Animal Selection Progress Has Been Made in WTO Senate Stalled by Procedural Debate GPS Receivers May Need Reconfiguration House Overrides WRDA Veto Cooperation Needed to Improve Water Quality Chose High-Yielding, SCN-resistant Soybeans Amendments and Administration Dominate Day Two of Farm Bill Debate Action Plan on Import Safety Released South American Planting Advances Floor Debate on the Farm Bill Iowa Heads Into Homestretch On 2007 Harvest 2007 Cornstalk Nitrate Test Results Available Trip to Colombia a Success Optimistic Outlook for Beef Exports to Middle East Confirmation of New Ag Secretary on Back Burner Hay Directory Helps Both Buyers and Sellers Let Soil Temperature Guide Fall Application of Nitrogen Senate Takes Up the Farm Bill Stalk Rot Threat Increases with Stress Override Vote of WRDA Veto Expected FSIS Steps Up Testing of Canadian Meat and Poultry Bush Vetoes WRDA October Was Fourth Wettest Ever For Iowa Integrated Crop Management Conference Is Nov. 28-29 Ethanol Co-Products May Be Used to Build Roads Asian Beef Trade Team Returns Senators Urge EPA to Study Higher Ethanol Blends FSA County Elections Begin 2007 Alfalfa Variety Performance Data Available Iowa Organic Conference Is Nov. 19 at Ames House Committee Approves Peru Agreement; Delegation Set to Visit Columbia Ed Schafer Chosen as New Ag Secretary Cancer Prevention Report Says Limit Red Meat Bush Names New Ag Secretary Americans Want More Renewable Fuels NCGA Displays Outrage at UN Official's Statements ISU Ag Alums Recognized for Outstanding Achievements Local Farmers Honored at "Farm to Folk" Event Decision on Biotech Ban in Hands of European Commission Dry Weather Allowing Combines to Roll Consider Planting Cover Crops This Fall Australian Wheat Estimate to be Released Tuesday CSP Payments Almost Ready to Send No Price Cut on Beef at the Grocery Store Farmers Encouraged to Fight the Urge to Fall Till Dealers Agree to Fall Nitrogen Code of Practice Congress Limits FSA Closures Excess Heat During Season Can Hold Down Yields USDA and FFA Partner on Census of Agriculture Electric Loans Awarded by USDA UN Official Calls for Halt in Biofuels Production Try This Propane Lamp ISU to Present National Conference on Bioeconomy EQIP Signup Period Ends November 30 Reaction to Senate Farm Bill Runs the Gamut Conner Taking Congressional Delegation to Columbia U.S. Winter Wheat Conditions Farm Bill Passes Senate Agriculture Committee Farm Bill Mark-up Underway Iowans Contribute Over $6 Million to Fight Hunger Harvest an Acre, Feed the World Corn Traits Earn European Import Approval WRDA Arrives on the President's Desk Europe Approves Corn Traits for Import Sensaphone Watches Your Fields Weather Change is Welcome Aggressive Action by FSIS against E. Coli ASA Concerned by Priorities of New Farm Bill 'FRESH' Farm Policy Legislation Introduced Smithfield Grants Are Available for Iowa Hog Producers CAST Releases Report on Cellulosic Biomass Compromise Reached on Interstate Meat Sales Iowa Hopes To Make Harvest Progress This Week Payment Limitation Amendment Bypassing Committee Mark-up Congress Closer to Conference on Energy Bill World Food Prize Winner Heralded No Break in Fuel Prices Renewable Fuels Take Center Stage at World Food Prize Symposium Standards Released for Grass-Fed Label Shift to Corn May Reverse in 2008 Conner Wants Action On Farm Bill Wet Weather Raises Corn Quality Concerns Aflatoxin in Northwest Iowa Corn Isn't Widespread John Deere Links Dealer's Inventory to eBay Grass-Fed Label Standards Released Stress vs. No Stress Evident in Corn Illustrated Plots Possible End to Testing Corn for StarLink Goals Needed for Beginning Farmer Assistance Conner Pleased Farm Bill is Moving Forward Big Donation Made to Improve Water Quality ISU to Hold Ag Career Day Oct. 23 at Ames Wheat Prices Could Push CRP Land into Production New Record Estimated for Brazilian Soy Crop E85 Pumps Certified Safe Iowa FFA Prepares for National Convention Free Energy Efficiency Guide Available Now is the Time to Fight SCN Harkin Unveils Deal on Farm Bill EPA Announces Formation of Agricultural Advisory Committee Early Grain Imports for Cattle Feed May Result from Australian Drought More Soybean Rust Found in Iowa Fields Iowans Go to Cuba to Sell Corn and Distillers Grains Minnesota Ethanol Plant Construction Delayed Conservation Call-In Day Organized Record High Soybean Exports Bobcat Enters Compact Tractor Boom House Passes 25x'25 Energy Goal Be Careful Before Releasing Cattle into Damaged Cornfields Wet Weather Slows Iowa Harvest This Week More than 2.5 Million Acres Enrolled in Carbon Program Aflatoxin Found in Iowa Cornfields NFU Urges Congressional Blockage of BSE Minimal Risk Rule AgriEdge Corn Program Expands for 2008 Farmers Plan to Profit from Low-linolenic Beans in 2008 Magellan Opens New Biodiesel Blending Facility Very Little Progress on Beef Trade with South Korea Corn Illustrated Plot Still Standing - Or is it? Grassley Defends Harkin's Postponement Wheat Stocks Lowered Again Cub Cadet, Yanmar Join Forces for New Tractors Deere Rollout: Track Suspension in Action Research Grants Awarded to Study Invasive Pests Doha is Still Doable Decreasing Price of Natural Gas May Not Translate to Lower Fertilizer Costs Peru FTA Headed for Senate Floor ISU Ag Dean Explains Plans for New Century Farm Want to Start or Expand a Feedlot? Consider These Factors First Rust Found in North Carolina Iowa Biofuels Expo Set For Oct. 17 In Des Moines Water Quality Grants Issued Iowa Soybean Association Issues Acre Challenge to Growers National Air Emissions Conference to Be Held in Iowa in 2008 Increased Biofuels Use Intensifies Water Quality, Quantity Issues Former Ag Secretary Joins Senate Race Environmental Group Targets Agribusinesses Move Grain with New Conveyor New World Record Soybean Yield Set in Southwest Missouri Rain Slows Harvest, But Yields Are Good In Iowa Tracking the Price of E85 Ag Groups Fighting EPA Dust Rule Smaller Meetings May be Key to Doha Success Time to Refocus Your Grain Marketing - No LDP This Fall Use New Online Option for Soil Conservation Check Out New Land Search Tool U.S. and South Korea Schedule Beef Talks Resolutions Introduced in Congress to Block Canadian Cattle Farmers Reminded of Crop Insurance Record Requirements Not Much Time Left for Australian Wheat Crop Weekend Storms Send Rust Spores Across the Midwest Avenger in Collector's Garb Planning Started for Renewable Energy Conference APHIS Wraps Up Biotech Rice Investigation Iowa Turns Clover Green for National 4-H Week Oct. 7-13 Iowa Crop Performance Test Results Now Available Expect More Normal Yields from Irrigated Corn Plot Rust Spreads Farther North and West Meat Recall Forces Topps Out of Business USDA Volunteer Killed in Afghanistan Farm Bill Pushed Back; Finance Passes Disaster Aid U.S. Notifies WTO of Domestic Supports Smart Decisions by Rural Communities Make a Difference John Deere Donates $750,000 To Iowa FFA Center Johanns to Officially Run for Senate USDA Reviewing Recall Procedures National Coalition Announces Dairy Animal Well-Being Principles and Guidelines Community Connect Grants Issued Deere Adds to Air-seeding Line Governor Doyle Announces New Cheese Production Record in Wisconsin National Coalition Announces Dairy Animal Well-Being Principles and Guidelines Another Delay in Farm Bill Action in the Senate E85 Wholesale Cost Now Way Below Regular Unleaded Fertilizer Sales Representatives Reluctant to Give Prices NASDA and NFU Back Interstate Meat Sales Provision Australian Wheat Crop Estimate Continues To Plummet GAO Says U.S. Agriculture May be Vulnerable to Foreign Pests Farmers Fined For Hauling Heavy Loads Of Grain State Ag Officials Respond to ‘Weak Inspection’ Allegations USGC Releases Final Numbers from China Corn Tour Conner Optimistic About WTO Talks Senate May Actually Move on Farm Bill Iowa's Corn Growers Smell Success in Livestock Expert To Speak At ISU On Climate Change Kaiser named new World Dairy Expo Dairy Cattle Show Superintendent Iraq Buys U.S. and Canadian Wheat Kaiser named new World Dairy Expo Dairy Cattle Show Superintendent Polaris Offers 6 Passenger UTV Ethanol Plant Construction Halted Leaders Talk Safety at Washington Meeting Plan Now for World Dairy Expo World Dairy Expo Kicks Off Today Weather Aids Harvests Of Corn, Soybeans Good Conditions Aiding Planting in Argentina Pork Center Developing Swine Schools Infrastructure Needed To Move Iowa's Biggest Corn Crop USDA Issues Distance Learning and Telemedicine Grants Peru FTA Goes Back to Congress USDA'S Conner to Speak At World Food Prize In Des Moines ICGA Applauds Senate's Approval of WRDA Conference Report Rust Continues to Spread Later-Planted Corn Yields Could Nose Dive Bush Addresses Climate Conference Lack of Rain Worries Brazilian Soybean Growers No Early Release of CRP Asian Soybean Rust Found In Central Iowa Field Opinions Differ on Peru FTA Aflatoxins Found In Some Northwest Iowa Corn Grain Quality Problems Appearing In Northern Iowa ICIA Receives ISO 9001:2000 Certification USGC China Corn Tour Sees Lower Production Global Climate Change Conference Opens in Washington Crop Insurance Sales Deadline is Almost Here Iowa's Corn Crop Delivers Food, Feed, and Fuel Farm Bureau Against Long-Term Extension of Farm Bill Pork Producers Are Upping Expansion Pace EU Drops Mandatory Set-Aside Australian Ag Minister Predicts Poor Wheat Crop Peru Free Trade Agreement Moves Closer Vilsack Lands a Job With BIGMAP at ISU Corn Farmers Making Environmental Progress Lower Crop Insurance Premiums for Using Biotech House Version of COOL Will Be in Senate Farm Bill Soybean Rust Still Moving North USDA Awards $1.2 Million to Assist Value-Added Ag in Iowa Panama Reopens Border to U.S. Cattle USDA Issues $223 Million in Electric Loans Brazil's New Soybean Crop May Set Record Federal Funding to Improve Food Safety ISU Bioeconomy Conference Set for Nov. 5-6 2007 Harvest Is Underway Throughout Iowa Acting Ag Secretary Talks about USDA's Top Priorities Hunger Summit to Unite Iowans in Action Against Hunger WRDA Passes Senate, But Still a Long Road Ahead China's Feed Growth Will Ramp Up WTO Rules in U.S. Favor on Rice Dispute Peru Trade Agreement Passes Senate Committee Iowa Land Prices Rise at Record Rate Southern Iowa Farmer Wins E85 Motorcycle Hybrids of Yesteryear Study Becomes 'How Not To' Plot Soybean Rust Found In Kansas Iowa State New Century Farm Gets Grant Concerned Groups File Petition to Remove IDNR Authority Beef Quality Assurance Program Raises Awareness Save Money by Guaranteeing Your Loan Reaction Toward Johanns After Resignation Swift and Positive Conner Celebrates Food Stamp Anniversary; Awards Grants Harkin Introduces Bill Establishing National Food Safety Framework China May Cut Import Duty on Soybeans PIG Opportunity Secretary of Agriculture Resigns U.S. Trade Negotiator Offers to Accept WTO Subsidy Cap New Pork Program Launched September Is Corn Month in Iowa NAWG Implores Senate to Provide Safety Net USDA Gives $22.7 Million in Value-Added Grants New LGMA Doubts Following Dole Recall Johanns Reportedly Will Run for Senate Farm Payments Play a Role in Converting Grasslands to Cropland Culver Appoints Climate Change Advisory Council Iowa Grazing Survey Indicates Pasture Rental Rates Farm Bill Extended by One Month Lowering Interest Rates Good for Farmers Pork Producers Council Holds Legislative Conference in Washington Harvest Ready to Enter Full-Swing In Iowa Report Questions Link Between Ethanol and Higher Food Prices Monsanto, ISU Settle Dispute Over Low-Linolenic Soybeans If Australia Stays Dry U.S. Wheat Could Reach New Highs Weekend Frost Causes Fears of Decreased Soybean Yields Bech Named Deputy Administrator for Biotechnology SmartStax Will Provide Farmers One-Stop Weed and Pest Control Reactions Vary On USDA's Minimal Risk BSE Rule Get Free Grain Analysis from ISU Testing Lab Iowa Governor Approves Harvest Weight Limit Exemption European Commission Proposes Stop to Setaside Corn Illustrated: Early Harvest Indicates Typical Nitrogen Pattern Soybean Rust Continues to Move North New Class Action Suit Brought Against AWB EU Court Rules in Favor of GMOs USDA Announces Final BSE Minimal Risk Rule Monsanto and Dow AgroSciences Partner on Eight-Gene Stacked Corn USDA Awards Cooperative Development and Community Facility Grants USDA Announcing Final Rule on Canadian Cattle Imports Today Export Demand Offsets Lower Ethanol Consumption Iowa Corn Board Announces Published Patents Culver Appoints Members to Iowa Power Fund Board Ag Secretary Makes Appointments to United Soybean Board Possible Senate Run? Ag Secretary is Keeping Mum USDA Increases Estimates For 2007 Corn Crop Soybean Growers Choose New President New Farm Bill Faces Time Crunch Progress Being Made on U.S.-Korean Beef Trade Issues Slow Start for U.S. Soybean Harvest Crop Protection Firm Talks Strategy Kuhn Extends Mower-conditioner Line Tax Package May Help Farm Bill Agriculture Census Offering Information; Options Online Public Comments Sought on Climate Change Report EU Trade Commissioner Says Clock is Ticking on Doha New Satellites Require Updates to Some Farmer's GPS Equipment Iowa Corn Organizations Elect New Officers Drake University Ag Law Center Marks 25th Anniversary Australian Wheat Crop Estimates Released Brazil's Wheat Crop Looks Better Than Last Year's U.S. Officials Urge Congress to Move on Free Trade Agreements Disaster Aid Signup Dates Announced Bobcat Replaces 533 with Compact S100 IDF Promotes Good Dairy Farming Practices Farmers Urged to Take Online FMD Survey Farmers Urged to Take Online FMD Survey Chinese Government Says It Will Not Stop Soybean Imports Western Canada Already Seeding Winter Wheat Country of Origin Labeling A Year Away…Maybe Give Feeder Calves a Breather Tips for Storing and Handling This Year's Crop Renewable Energy Conference Has Big Name Speakers Mixed Bag of Crop Results in Corn Illustrated Area USDA Rural Development Issues Grants for TV Upgrade Soyoil Gets Big Boost by Biodiesel Virus May Be Cause of Bee Deaths Soy Formula May Stop Child Illness Farmers Urged to Take Online FMD Survey Coalition Meeting Focuses on Biotech Producers Urged to Take Survey to Help FMD Study Counties in Iowa Affected by CRP Decision One More Iowan Is Driving a Flex Fuel Vehicle U.S. Soybeans May Hit $10 in 2007 Honda Enters UTV Market with Big Red Grain Group Forecasts Record Feed Grain Exports Final Push Needed For WTO Trade Talks Another Iowa Ethanol Plant Begins Production Your Ideas Wanted on Rural Driving Safety C. Coleman Harris Retires Countercyclical Payments Begin for Cotton and Peanuts Company Pushes Idea of a New Revolution Farmers May Need to Update GPS Equipment Opinions Differ on House Farm Bill Kubota, Land Pride Announce Agreement A Call for Genebanks to Prevent Livestock Extinction Iowa Farmers Preparing For 2007 Harvest John Deere Unveils 5003 Tractor Line NCGA Pushing Legislative Issues Iowa Department of Ag to Help Cities Fight Runoff Flex Fuel Vehicles Announced for 2008 Congress Back in Session with Plenty to Cover Group Asks for CRP Acre Release Corn Illustrated: Too Early To Tell if Fungicide Application Helped Disaster Sign-up to Start Oct. 15 ICGA Delegates Want Consumer Tax Benefit for E85 Use Arctic Cat Introduces Diesel ATV Borlaug Learning Center to Be Built at ISU Farm Register Now for Iowa Biodiesel Fuel Seminars USDA Projects New Export Record Japan Loses Another Ag Minister Horse Flu in Australia Draws Inquiry Yields Not Hurt As Much As You May Think Grains Council Outreach Efforts Talk Biotech, DDGS NCGA: Keep the Heat on for the Farm Bill Giant Soybeans to Be Auctioned Off Business Grants Promote Rural Development New Engine Idea Enhances Efficiency Keeping Score on Soybean Rust Income Limits Still Hot Topic for Farm Bill Farm Bill Needs Beginning Farmer Options Soggy Soybeans May Yield Less Trade is Hot Topic for Ag SowBridge is Pork Production Educational Program Farmers Urged to Turn to Biodiesel for Harvest New Herbicide Tech on Display Iowa Crops Thrive Despite Torrential Rains Trimble, Dickey-john Partner for Future Lincoln National Ag Award Recipients Named at 2007 Farm Progress Show What to Wear to Fund Youth in Agriculture New Survey Shows Fight for Acres Ahead in 2008 Gates Open for 2007 Farm Progress Show Online Film Attempts to Turn Up Heat on Farm Bill Battle ISU Specialists Discuss Wet Field Conditions Watch Out for Corn Nematodes South Korea Resumes U.S. Beef Inspection German Poultry Farm Infected with Bird Flu Analysts Take a Look at Biofuel Boom Familiar Landmark Rises from Progress City Ag Secretary Makes Plans to Attend Farm Progress Show Corn Growers Remind Growers About New Corn Tech Responsibility USDA Invests in Produce Safety Iowa Farmers Interested In Growing Wheat EPA Develops Help For Anhydrous Ammonia Facilities USDA: Chinese Currency Could Boost U.S. Ag Exports Farmers Fear Crop Loss Following Torrential Rains Growers Urge Action on Mississippi River Locks Corn Trait Gets Japan Nod Chinese Complain About U.S. Soy Quality NCGA: Extreme Conditions Show Importance of Safety Net Flooding Could Pressure Soybean Production More Soft Red Wheat to be Planted USDA Pushes Renewable Energy Projects Tropical Storms Raise Rust Worries Iowa Corn Yield Prospects Looking Good Iowa Growers to Sponsor Corn Indy 250 Again ISU Gets Challenge Grant to Renovate Veterinary Facility South Korea Could Decide Soon on U.S. Beef Dairy Industry Documentary Available on DVD Suspected vCJD Case Refuted Ag Exports to Top $78.5 Billion Five States Poised to Harvest Billion Bushel Corn Crops USDA Aims to Be Better Energy User NCBA Discusses Policies for 2007 New Alternative Swine Production Health Reference Available Grains Council Continues International Biotech Effort New Chance for U.S. Beef in South Korea? Corn Illustrated Weekly: Where Did All the Beetles Go? Iowa State Fair Breaks Ground for Big Addition Governor's Charity Steer Show Raises $118,125 U.S. Food Aid Flawed, Charity Says Water Scientists Worry About Biofuel Side Effects Fruit Producers Brace for Immigrant Crackdown McFarlane Busy with New Seedbed Tool State Council Unveils Proposals to Boost Ag Education New Alternative Swine Production Health Reference Available Sugar Could Boost Ethanol Corn Growers Look for Farm Bill Changes Use Distillers Grains for Livestock Rations Take a Peek at the 2007 Farm Progress Show Site Underwriters Labs on Track to Certify E-85 Pumps Corn Growers Applaud as Culver Unveils E85 Trooper Fleet Southern Corn Harvest Begins What Can New Farm Bill Do to Help Beginning Farmers? Sustainability Initiative Draws Farm Group Support Attend Educational Cattle Feedlot Tour Nearest You Iowa Corn, Soybeans Continue to Look Good Monsanto Appeals Roundup Ready Alfalfa Injunction Plan Fuel Purchases to Catch Lower Prices Time to Get Your Grain Dryer Ready Still Time to Harvest Carbon Credits Valley Offers Single-span Engine Drive NCGA Holds First Agri-Industry Council Meeting Wheat Group Eyes Doha Negotiations Corn Illustrated Plot Offers Surprises British Foot and Mouth Tests Coming in Negative ISU Celebrating 150th Birthday at State Fair ICGA Wants You to Contact Senators About Farm Bill NCGA: Corn Growers Reducing Erosion Japan Set to Approve Agrisure RW USDA Report Predicts Largest Corn Crop in History Farmers Encouraged to Take Advantage of CSP Program If You Plan to Apply Manure, You Must Meet Requirements ICGA Applauds New Consumer Study That Dispels Energy Myths EPA: 2,4-D Not a Human Carcinogen Angus Producers Partner with USDA on Animal ID Meeting to Address U.S. Animal Disease Readiness Angus Producers Partner with USDA on Animal ID Angus Producers Partner with USDA on Animal ID Culver Appoints Director of New Iowa Energy Office Aphids Explode in Iowa Soybean Fields! Farm Management Consultant Suggests Farmers, Tenants Talk Buhler Lists Two New Products for Grain and Hay Conservation Security Program Gets More Funds Watch Out for Door-to-Door Meat Sales Rain Gives Relief to Parched Iowa Crops How Will Global Warming Affect U.S. Corn Belt? Food Standards Aren't U.S. Issue Only U.S. Could Be Making Progress on Japan Beef Talks NMPF Takes Lead in National Dairy ID Effort Disease Outbreak in England Is Reminder to U.S. Producers Test for Nitrogen Before Planting Wheat House Energy Bill Nabs Oil Money AerWay Unveils New Close-coupled Tandem Farm Futures Predicts Record Corn Crop Britain Deals with Foot and Mouth Disease Heat Wave Will Separate 'Men from Boys' Soybean Aphids This Year Are Worse Than in 2003 Wind Turbine Built at State Fairgrounds Senate Will Discuss Rural Broadband Access Study Works Towards Rust-resistant Soybeans Farm Production Costs Climb WRDA Passes House, 381-40 GAO Finds Problems in Animal ID Implementation Japan, Korea Beef Talks Hit Snags USDA Provides Emergency Funds for Bovine Tuberculosis Northey and Wal-Mart Encourage Iowa Shoppers to "Choose Iowa" U.S., China Meet for Food Safety Talks Carbon Credit Signup Deadline Approaches Stay Safe When Lightning Strikes Senate Farm Bill Could Include Controversial Tax Measure Corn Yield Contest Postmark Deadline Is August 1 NOAA: Nutrient Pollution Damaging Nation's Estuaries New Soybean Trait Offers 7-11% Yield Advantage New Soybean Trait Offers 7-11% Yield Advantage Governments Look to Back Up Ethanol Goals WRDA Nears Completion Soybean Topics Featured at Iowa Learning Farm Field Day Practical Farmers Iowa Invites You to August Field Days Rains Help Corn - and Ethanol Reactions Pour in After House Farm Bill Passage Iowa Learning Farm Hosts 'Field Day' in Muscatine First Signs of Disease Noticed in Corn Illustrated Plots Weather Guru Sees Strange Twist to Corn Crop Soybean Aphids Reach Threshold in Many Fields New Soybean Aphid Publication Available Farm Bill Passes in House Legislation Bans Hog Waste Lagoons in North Carolina Legislation Bans Hog Waste Lagoons in North Carolina WRDA Edges Forward House Farm Bill Faces Threats Iowa Biodiesel Board Selects Director Become a Pork Quality Assurance Plus Advisor Soybean Rust Could Move North from Texas A Tale of Two Bills Northey Announces July Good Farm Neighbor Award Recipient Four Viticulture Field Days to Be Held Farm Bureau Survey Shows Retail Food Prices Up in Second Quarter John Deere Overhauls Four Instruction Manuals Senators Propose Revenue Counter-cyclical Program Johanns Threatens Farm Bill Veto Over Lack of Reforms Korean Bone-in Beef Decision Expected in July Flaws Appear in Farm Payment System Northey to Listen to Iowans' Views Aug. 1 Is National Corn Yield Contest Deadline Northey to Visit Marshalltown Ag Groups Voice Opposition to Kind-Flake Iowa Corn and Soybean Crops Still Thirst for Rain Honey Bee Research not on Farm Bill 'A-list' Congress Gets Ethanol Ownership Bill The Farm Bill for Corn Growers Smith Looks for Other Ways to Make Ethanol Scout for Western Bean Cutworms Now Farm Bill Reactions Come In New Chairmen of Biodiesel Board Selected Corn Illustrated Weekly: Drought Damage Assessment Is Tricky Business Remember Costs in Cash Rent Negotiation New Program Will Focus on Underground Utility Safety Legislators Broker COOL Compromise Johanns Reacts to Farm Bill Automated Weighing System Gets Patent New Farm Bill Clears House Committee American Council on Science and Health Acknowledges Borlaug Senate Legislation Expands Biodiesel Education Program Scientists: Only Use Fungicides for Disease Add-on Dump Truck USDA Partners With U.S. Animal Identification Organization EPA Announces Extended Feeding Operation Deadlines Grain Storage Management Meetings to Be Held Hoffman Elected President of ASA Consumers Still Beefing Up With Market Declining, Oats Could Be Cover Crop Monsanto Takes its Show on the Road Specialty Crops Get Boost in Farm Bill Draft Iowans Must Take Steps to Own Wild Animals Leyda, Hjelm Appointed to Fill Vacancies Corn Crop on Record Pace Peterson Proposes $1 Million Eligibility Cap Johanns Announces New Protections for Fruit and Vegetable Imports Northey Concerned About Tax Increase Northey to visit Chickasaw, Howard, and Mitchell Counties Johanns Expresses Disappointment with Farm Bill Borlaug First to Get Congressional Medal for Agricultural Efforts John Deere Announces 5003 Series Tractor Line-up China Returns Fire in Food Fight Renewable Energy Gets $100 Billion Globally Cato Institute: U.S. Dairy Policies are 'Milk Madness' Corn Illustrated Weekly: Low N Rates Produce Classic Nitrogen Firing ISA, IRFA Welcome New Biodiesel Plant to Iowa Grazing Trip Offered Free to Producers and Landowners Biofuels a Hot Topic at Energy Summit Syngenta Grants Zimmerman Corn Rights to Hoegemeyer Hybrids New Web Site Provides YieldGard VT Tips Researchers Say Good No-till Management Can Net Higher Profits Johanns Disapproves of House Farm Bill EPA Meets with Ag Leaders Iowa's Suburbs Show Most Growth New Director for Iowa Crop Improvement Association USDA Seeks Comments on Biotech Regulations ASA Joins Rice Groups in Backing Peterson Proposal Farm Bureau Votes to Back U.S.-Korea FTA Iowans Have Six New Energy Independence Fueling Options Conservation Security Program Funding Restored Beef and Meat Groups Debate Country-of-origin Labeling Senators Introduce Ag Market Competition Legislation Brazil to Join Canada in WTO Complaint Against U.S. Leopold Center Seeks Projects for 2007 Maintain Grain Quality in Storage American Farm Bureau: 'Food vs. Fuel' Not a Concern Conservation Districts Unhappy With Farm Bill Language New Insecticide Gets EPA Registration Iowa Crop Report Shows Rainfall Is a Problem Be a Local Hero, Buy Locally Grown Iowa Crops Starting to Show Serious Heat Stress Japan U.S. Beef Imports Climbing Japan U.S. Beef Imports Climbing Japan U.S. Beef Imports Climbing Ag Groups Ask Congress for More Research Funding Global Biofuel Output Will Double by 2012, Report Says National Corn Yield Contest Entries on Record Pace Johanns Says Progress Being Made on Farm Bill Corn Illustrated Weekly: Mid-season Chlorophyll Readings Leave Questions A Way to Make Biodiesel Cheaper, Faster, Better Keep Current Soybean Standards, Grain Groups Say Kuhn Lengthens Its Rotary Rake Line Cattle Producers Urge Equal Opportunity Energy Policy Iowa Department of Ag Has Three New Bureau Chiefs Funds Earmarked For Renewable Fuels Lab New Opportunity for Organic Producers Ag Secretary Content with Farm Bill Progress U.S. Grains Council: Panama FTA a Win for Producers National Sheep Seminars and Sale Set for Aug. 4 in Iowa ISU Announces Changes for FAPRI Staff Iowa Gets Conservation Innovation Grants Senator Calls for "Import Czar" How to Move Forward with Ethanol? Governor Appoints New EPC Board Member Leopold Center Marks Two Decades of Achievement New USDA Facility to Deal with Animal Diseases Congress May Require Full Korea Beef Imports to Sign FTA Wheat Harvest Could Suffer from Immigration Bill Failure Study: Ethanol Co-products Gaining Popularity Iowa Poised to Produce Record Corn Crop Drop in Bean Acres Puts Squeeze on Biodiesel USDA Gives Interim Approval to Change in Organic Regulations U.S. Wants China to Reopen Market for Beef Shift to Corn Acres Changes Price Outlook Corn Illustrated Weekly: Chlorophyll Meter Will Unmask Differences - Hopefully! Machinery Firms Make Changes Farm Bill May Include Crop Insurance Reductions U.S. Ag Exports Rise in 2006 Corn Plantings Reach 92.9 Million Acres When More Is Less Is Good BASF and Monsanto Partner for Trait Promotion OPEC: Biofuels Not a 'Magic Bullet' New Crop Protection Products in the Pipeline Leopold Center to Celebrate 20 Years with July 10-11 Events Immigration Bill Comes Up Short in Senate China Says Defends Safety of Food Exports Companies to Help Farmers Understand Ethanol Yield Potential Improve Hay Quality with Fork Governor Moves to Increase E85 Ethanol Use Mason City Experiencing a Boom in Biofuels Immigration Bill Faces Crucial Vote in Senate Summer Aerial Application on Corn Expected to Be High Harkin Wants to Reduce Direct Payments Companies Slow to Market Jointly Labeled Chemicals ISU Agronomy Professor Is New Wallace Chair USDA Awards Grants to Start Rural Iowa Businesses Corn Illustrated Weekly: Hybrid Differences Still Show After Irrigating Iowa Corn, Soybeans Are Looking Good Cargill Technology Wins EPA Award Tyson and Syntroleum Form Sythentic Fuels Company U.S. Beef Makes Strides in Korea, Japan Onset Offers New Smart Sensor Iowa's Corn Crop Rated 56% Good, 22% Excellent Soybean Rust Turns Up in Three States European Governments Stalled on GM Corn Talks SCN Females Now Apparent on Soybean Roots DDGS Can Be Pelletized Payment Limits Not Likely in Farm Bill, Peterson Says Legislation Would Let More Meat Cross State Lines ISU to Build 'Biofuel Farm' in Boone County No-till Continuous Corn Featured at Field Day CRP Contracts Expiring Sept. 30 Can Be Re-Enrolled Energy Bill Clears Senate Johanns Chides House on Farm Bill Action Eligible Groups Encouraged to Apply for Watershed Funds Senate Reaches Fuel Efficiency Reform Compromise Get the Basics On Biomass Crops Harkin: Farm Bill Should Boost Rural Development U.S. Blocks WTO Investigation of Subsidies FAPRI Examines Possible Farm Program Rate Changes Energy Bill Includes Money for Renewable Fuels Iowa Manure Management Action Group Rolls Out New Web Site Free Entertainment at 2007 Iowa State Fair Athenix Lends Monsanto a Hand With Insect Control Renewable Fuels Association Backs Renewable Fuels Education Bill Ag Secretary Decries Farm Bill Subsidy Renewal Best Management Practices Take Center Stage During Summer Taiwan Goodwill Mission Commits To Corn Purchases Chevron Offers New Gear Lube Subcommittee Recommends Keeping 2002 Farm Bill Subsidy Program Warm, Windy Weather Is Making Iowa's Corn Grow House Farm Bill Draft Gets Soy Support Ag Engineers Get 'Charge' for the Future Industry Interests Lobby Against Energy Bill Iowa State University College of Ag Gets New Name Cover Crop Roller Cuts Field Trips American Agricultural Scientist Wins 2007 World Food Prize Administration Introduces Immigration Enforcement Measure FSA County Committee Nominations in Process June 21 Is Discount Day for E85 Fuel in Iowa Scout Seedling Diseases and Make Replanting Decisions Bipartisan Legislation Pushes Biodiesel Corn Belt's Nitrogen Runoff Can Be Curbed Iowa Corn Indy 250 Set For Iowa Speedway June 24 Some Analysts Say Ethanol Boom May Stumble Iowans Speak Out on the Bioeconomy Corn Illustrated Weekly: Nitrogen Rate Differences Show Visually in Rate Plot Kuhn Adds New Mower-conditioner Study to Focus on Animal Operations' Emissions Corn Gets Bad Rap for Food Price Increases Johanns Names Biotechnology and 21st Century Ag Board EPA Rolls Out New Rules Web Site Proposed Bill to Strengthen Biodiesel Sales of E85 Jump Due To Higher Gasoline Prices Japan Loosens Inspection Rules for U.S. Beef Next-Generation Hybrid Vehicle Released Energy Bill Pushes Through Senate Showcase Program Highlights Conservation Technologies Iowa Feedlots Must Meet July 31 Deadlines Timely Post Herbicide Application Protects Corn Yield USDA Undersecretary Speaks on Livestock Identification Database Detailing Farm Subsidies Gets Update Biomass Research Gets $18 Million Boost Wind Plays Havoc with Weed Control This Year Pork Producers Have a Stake In Immigration Policy Use Preservatives To Avoid Heating Of Wet Hay? Alamo Offers 'Tractor Focused' Loaders Report: Energy Department Not Keeping Up for Biofuels USDA List of Approved Nonorganic Items Stirs Controversy USDA Expands Beef Recall Over E. Coli Scare USDA Helps Iowans Buy Energy Efficient Grain Dryers Yogurt Maker, Environmental Group Aim to Save Farms Iowa Has Bumper Crop of Strawberries Valmont Offers 'Loaded' 7000 Sprinkler Canadian WTO Request Omits Complaints Against U.S. Corn Immigration Reform Bill Falls Short in Senate GAO: Crop Insurance Program Still Needs Improvement Final Rows Planted at Corn Illustrated Plots ISA On-Farm Network to Test GreenSeeker System 'Scoop on Poop' Educates Iowans on Value of Nature's Nutrients Small Farmers Speak on Farm Bill Input Wanted for EPA Ag Center Survey House Subcommittee Approves More Farm Bill Proposals Cancer Survivor Takes Tractor on Road Across Iowa American Farm Bureau Backs Immigration Bill Nominations Sought For I-CASH Hall Of Fame Award New Controls for Eastern Fruit and Nut Producers Brazil and U.S. Share Common Interests in Ethanol South Korea Proceeds With Beef Inspections, but Holds Sales Chamber of Commerce Criticizes Rahall Energy Bill Many Corn Fields in Western Iowa Showing N Deficiency Farmers Facing More Weed Problems This Spring Commodity Groups Reiterate Importance of Market Access in Doha Debate Heats Up Over Direct Payments Study Looks at Impacts of Ethanol in U.S. IDALS Awarded $103,000 to Support Specialty Crops Iowa's 2007 Corn Crop Rated 58% Good, 21% Excellent Harvestores Grow in New Design South Korea Reinstates De Facto Ban on U.S. Beef U.S. and China Work on Non-Grain Biofuels Agreement U.S. and Brazil Likely to Discuss Ethanol in Meetings Could Pipelines Move Ethanol From Iowa to Major Markets? PFI Field Days Begin June 12 and Will Run All Summer DewEze Offers '08 Ford Hydraulics Scientists Work on First U.S.-produced FMD Vaccine Scientists Work on First U.S.-produced FMD Vaccine Control Stable Flies This Wet Spring New Vaccine Could Work Against Foot-and-mouth NCGA: Clean Water Legislation a Burden for Producers ISU Field Days at Research Farms Begin June 12 Culver Vetoes Missouri River Management Legislation Cattle Groups Respond to JBS-Swift Acquisition Monsanto to Acquire Delta and Pine Land, Divest NexGen and Stoneville Former Senators Propose Eliminating Direct Payments to Farmers Quilt Fungicide Application Rate Reduced FDA Recalls Feed Over Melamine Concerns Researchers: Global Warming Could Cause Soil Decline Iowans Asked to Help Protect Ash Trees from New Pest USDA Rural Development Awards $1.2 Million in Iowa Retrofit Chain to Reduce Trash Administration Will Fight Voluntary BSE Testing Farm Progress Companies Help With Safety Day Promotion China Says U.S. Food Companies Should Be More Cautious Time to Decide About Sidedressing Nitrogen ISU Sues Monsanto Over Low Linolenic Beans Brazilian Interests to Acquire Swift Brazilian Interests to Acquire Swift Dairy Diets Fined Tuned for Distillers' Grains Brazilian Interests to Acquire Swift More Beef Could Be Headed to South Korea Brazilian Interests to Acquire Swift Brazilian Interests to Acquire Swift Japanese Ag Minister Commits Suicide Amid Scandal Iowa's Farmers Markets Open For 2007 Was Report of Soybean Rust a False Alarm? Bill Helps Dedicated Energy Crop Growers Congress Marks Up Disaster Package Culver Signs Power Fund Bill Into Law Farm Bureau Praises Power Fund Woods Offers GroundMover-X U.S. Calls for Food Safety Measures from China U.S.-S. Korea Free Trade Agreement Biggest Ever for Pork Producers Council: U.S.-S. Korea FTA Means $10 More Per Pig Subcommittee Reviews Dairy for Farm Bill Subcommittee Reviews Dairy for Farm Bill Crop Insurance Should Be Part of Farm Bill Birrell Named to New Kinze Professorship at ISU Bill Would Allow Justice Department to Sue OPEC New BIO Policy Aims to Minimize Trade Disruptions What's in the Immigration Bill for Ag New Fact Sheet for Using DDGS for Hogs World Pork Expo Set for June 7-9 in Des Moines Distillers Dried Grains Market Stabilizing House Subcommittee Works on Conservation, Energy, Credit Titles U.S. Cattle Groups Respond to Upgraded BSE Classification Chinese Delegation Buys Soybeans in Iowa Growing Iowa's Cattle Feeding Business U.S. Gets 'Controlled Risk' BSE Classification Coalition Tells Congress: Fund Country-of-Origin Labeling Touring by Tractor Iowa Has 93% of Corn Acres Planted By May 20 Bird Flu Could Be Slowing Down Is Your Nitrogen Still in the Field? Biofuel Producers: Ethanol and Biodiesel Not Enough to Meet Bush's Targets Red Palm Mite Explosion Causing Caribbean Fruit Losses New Ag Legislation Introduced in Congress Struggling Alfalfa Fields: Consider Temporary Forage Options Hay Market Remains Hot, No Hay Glut This Year Farm Bill Draft Makes Changes to Conservation Funds U.S. Beef Causing Push for New Safety Measures in S. Korea Poultry Fed Melamine Pronounced Safe for Processing House Ag Committee Adopts Renewable Energy Resolution Iowa Cash Rent Rates Jump to $150 Average Lessons Learned From This Spring's Wet Conditions Genetically Modified Corn Seed Closer to Approval in Brazil Expanding Ethanol Industry Impacts Grain Transportation Lawmakers in Congress Introduce Help for Beginning Farmers 2007 Farm Progress Show Adds Country Music Concert Economics of Producing Methane From Manure Is Improving CSIF Embarks on Fourth Year of Service Senate Passes Locks and Dams Bill New Senate Legislation Aims to Boost Cellulosic Energy Crops $35 Million Goes to Wetland Reserve Program Projects U.S. Beef Shipments Continue to Clear Korean Inspections Iowa Will Have 20 Sentinel Plots for Soybean Rust Central Iowa Energy Begins Producing Biodiesel About 56,000 Swine to Be Released from Quarantine Dairy Nutrition and Management Conference Set for June 13-14 Bilateral Free Trade Agreements a Possibility Wheat Growers to Congress: 'Keep Food in U.S. Food Aid' Agronomists Caution About Switching Maturities Iowa Corn Planters Make Up for Lost Time Bush Calls for New Emissions Standards Manage Heat Stress in Dairy Cows Chinese to Sign Soybean Contracts Watch for Cutworm as Corn Emerges Corn Prices Hurt Ethanol Producers, Too Got Nitrogen? Many Farmers Asking That Question Wheat Blends Outperform Single Varieties in Study New Rules Proposed for Rural Broadband Asian Soybean Rust Found Early in Louisiana Japan Takes Issue with U.S. Trade Report USDA Farm Bill Proposals Aim to Keep U.S. Ag Competitive Spring Digging Season Brings New 811 Number ISA Pleased With Outcome of Legislative Session U.N. Panel Raises Concerns About Biofuels Flooding Causes Barge and Rail Delays Biodiesel Producers, Soybean Growers Ask for Farm Bill Provisions Farm Aid May Be Separated from War Spending Bill Northey Encourages Farmers to Understand Restrictions Two More Iowa Ethanol Plants Begin Producing USDA and EPA Coordinate Chesapeake Bay Watershed Protection Survey Indicates Consumers Concerned With Food Safety Registration Open for Beef Improvement Federation Meeting in Colorado Corn Plantings Up in Midwest Keep an Eye Out for Bean Leaf Beetles Growers Advised on New Rootworm Corn Trait U.S., Mexico Talk Agriculture Ashland and Cargill Create Joint Biobased Chemical Venture Survey Shows 53% of Iowa's Corn Is Planted Johanns Announces Specialty Crops Farm Bill Proposals Soybean Plant Mortality May Be Greater This Year U.S. Now Has Over 1,200 E85 Locations Researchers Say Organic Ag Can Help Combat Hunger Melamine Contamination Poses Almost No Risk to Humans Researchers Showcase Biotech at International Event Smithfield-PSF Merger Gets Justice Department Clearance Corn Hybrids Adjust to Delayed Planting Dates Corn Planting - Did You Get It Done Before Rain? New Web-based Program Helps Swine Management ISA Weighs in on Farm Bill UN Panel Calls for Urgent Action Against Global Warming New Iceberg Lettuces Resist Wilt USDA Releases Report on Animal ID Projects Corn Growers Fared Well in 2007 Legislature Deadline to Apply for Energy Grants Is May 18 Corn Planting Delayed Again by Rain Judge Rules Farmers Can't Plant Roundup Ready Alfalfa GAO Report Calls for Continued Improvement of Crop Insurance Senate Committee Approves Renewable Fuels Legislation Moving New-Tech Corn by Rail Banned New BSE Case Turns Up in Canada Fuel Price Outlook: Mixed to Higher Adjust Planters When Working in Wetter Soil Use Fungicides with Caution Bush Speaks Against Farm Disaster Aid in War Spending Bill House Subcommittee Reviews Crop Insurance Corn Planters Rolling Across Iowa Iowa Agriculture Comes Out Ahead in Legislature U.S. Beef Hits Shelves in Korea