Amy Mayer
KMUW
Ames, IA, United States
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Farm Income Up This Year, Mostly Thanks To Uncle Sam
Balance sheets for farms may look better at the end of 2020 than they have in years. That’s according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s latest → Read More
Farm Income Up This Year, Mostly Thanks To Uncle Sam
The USDA is projecting higher incomes across farm businesses this year, mostly because of federal relief payments. → Read More
In An Autumn Of Uncertainties, More Kids Can Rely On Free School Lunches
As the new school year gets underway, some students are in classrooms and others are at home but one thing is now clear: all kids can get free school meals → Read More
Governor Announces Distribution Of $100 Million From CARES Act Relief Money
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds has spelled out how she will distribute $100 million of CARES Act relief money to various agricultural sectors. → Read More
219 New COVID-19 Cases, 9 New Deaths Reported Wednesday
Follow the latest Iowa news in our Daily Digest, a liveblog where you can catch up on the headlines in five minutes and find more reporting from our news → Read More
355 New COVID-19 Cases, 7 New Deaths Reported Thursday
Follow the latest Iowa news in our Daily Digest, a liveblog where you can catch up on the headlines in five minutes and find more reporting from our news → Read More
392 New COVID-19 Cases, 3 More Deaths Reported Friday
Follow the latest Iowa news in our Daily Digest, a liveblog where you can catch up on the headlines in five minutes and find more reporting from our news → Read More
Liveblog: State Officials Release Antibody Testing Numbers
In many Iowa counties, businesses and organizations are now deciding when and how to reopen. Summer festivals and events organizations are making decisions → Read More
Liveblog: 13,040 Workers Filed New Unemployment Claims In Iowa Last Week
In many Iowa counties, businesses and organizations are now deciding when and how to reopen. Summer festivals and events organizations are making decisions → Read More
As More Ethanol Plants Are Idled, Industry Pressures Government For Help
The ongoing pandemic has dealt another blow to the struggling ethanol industry. ADM, one of the country’s major grain companies and a big ethanol producer, → Read More
COVID-19 Ag Relief Helps Small And Specialty Farms But Not Ethanol
Farmers who grow many different types of crops and raise livestock will receive direct payments from the United States Department of Agriculture through → Read More
The Country Has Plenty Of Meat, Despite COVID-19 Plant Closures
As meatpacking plants across the country have temporarily closed due to COVID-19 outbreaks, consumers might be seeing less meat on the shelves at the → Read More
Prairie Research Could Help Farming Become More Resilient, Sustainable
On a still November day, Patrick O’Neal, the burn coordinator at Kansas State University’s Konza Prairie Biological Station near Manhattan, Kansas, → Read More
As Grilling Season Approaches, Beef Prices May Dip
With grilling season coming, meat eaters in the United States may be treated to slightly lower prices. Many factors contribute to the price consumers pay → Read More
A Decade-Long Study Finds Cover Crops Help Farmers Improve Soil
Iowa Learning Farms and Practical Farmers of Iowa conducted a 10-year study on the conservation benefits of planting cereal rye as a cover crop on corn and soybean fields. Their results show the practice improves soil health. The cover crop may cause a slight dip in yields the first year or two, but that can be overcome and eventually small increases in soybean yields may occur. → Read More
A Decade-Long Study Finds Cover Crops Help Farmers Improve Soil
Iowa Learning Farms and Practical Farmers of Iowa conducted a 10-year study on the conservation benefits of planting cereal rye as a cover crop on corn and → Read More
New Trade Deal For US, Mexico And Canada Clears Another Hurdle
A much-anticipated update to the 25-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement is one step closer to implementation.On Tuesday, the Senate Finance → Read More
New Trade Deal For US, Mexico And Canada Clears Another Hurdle
A much-anticipated update to the 25-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement is one step closer to implementation. On Tuesday, the Senate Finance → Read More
USDA Numbers Confirm Declining Demand For Ethanol
The national average price for corn this season is back to $3.60 a bushel, about where it’s been most of this year except for an early-season spike ($4.16 → Read More
Yellow, White Or Both, An Ear Of Sweet Corn Is A Summer Pleasure
Even though the Midwest is tops in field corn production and grows row after row of it, these states don’t stand out when it comes to national production → Read More