Iowa
From starting their farm, to adding a manure hauling business, to implementing conservation measures, and being active members of their community, Todd and Mary Kay Wegener earn the 2021 Environmental Steward Award.
Four Iowa Pork Regional Conferences will be held in February. Each will provide PQA+ training, as well as multiple speakers discussing swine health, economic issues, and marketing.
Due to excellence in production and serving as positive partners to Iowa pork production, Master Pork Producers and Master Pork Partners were named at the 2022 Iowa Pork Congress.
Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds and long-time policy influencer Jerry Fitzgerald were recognized as Honorary Master Pork Producers at the 2022 Iowa Pork Congress.
Chet and Cassie Mogler open up about their journey to become foster parents and how they are sharing the gift of farm life.
The Sonja Hillgren Memorial Scholarship provides three university students who have a passion for food and agriculture with $1,500 each, professional development opportunities and mentoring from Farm Journal staff.
The Iowa State Fair on Saturday will host the 37th annual Governor’s Charity Steer Show, an event benefiting the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Iowa.
An Indiana Mennonite church provides thousands of meals through meat donation.
An Iowa-based community activist organization and a Washington-based environmental group have filed a lawsuit against the state of Iowa alleging they have deprived residents of their right to clean water.
The Iowa Legislature has sent to the governor a bill designed to prosecute people who get hired at a livestock farm in order to record animal living conditions.
A farmer and a farm worker are on probation after applying liquid manure onto a field that resulted in runoff into a nearby stream. The farm was fined $50,000.
Local governments would be prohibited from placing restrictions on large livestock facilities in rural areas under a bill being considered in the Indiana Senate.
Bill Owen and his son, Bob, were named the 2019 Master Seedstock Award winners by the Iowa Purebred Swine Council during the Iowa Pork Congress held recently in Des Moines.
The Iowa Pork Producers Association crowned Abby Bean as the 2020 Iowa Pork Queen and Alexis Berte and Caleb Hogan as pork ambassadors from a field of 13 contestants last week at Iowa Pork Congress.
Nearly 50 companies introduced “something new” in the New Product Showcase at the Iowa Pork Congress on Wednesday.
Travel the country. Meet farmers from other states. Develop your leadership skills. Sound interesting? Consider applying for the Iowa Pork Leadership Academy or the Illinois Future Leaders Class of 2020-2021.
Construction delays are pushing back the opening of a new pork plant in Iowa. Upon completion, the facility will create over 1,000 jobs for the surrounding area.
The muddy tradition of hog wrestling has continued at some county fairs in Indiana this summer though proceeds were down in at least one county.
Indiana lawmakers chose to hold off on a bill that would limit local governments’ control over large livestock farms Monday and instead replaced it with a proposal for further research on how existing local ordinances impact Indiana farms.
Iowa livestock producers may have more regulations heading their way in how manure is handled.
Listen in as Pat McGonegle gives us a “state of the Iowa pork industry” for summer 2019.
Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig commends signing of bill that protects Iowa pork producers and economy.
Former judges share the passion and skills they developed while judging hogs as a 4-H or FFA member.
Iowa Senator Grassley expressed frustration today with Scott Pruitt’s lack of action to uphold the Renewable Fuel Standards law.
Iowa’s Bill Northey sworn in as USDA Under Secretary.
Jen Sorenson, communications director for Iowa Select Farms, writes about how the Pork Care Package program began and the positive impact it has had on Iowa’s service men and women.
The 30th annual World Pork Expo is just around the corner. You’ll find plenty of innovation, education and opportunities for networking at the show, held June 6-8 at the state fairgrounds in Des Moines, Iowa.
Two Iowa State University animal scientists were honored by their peers: Anna Johnson and Kenneth Stalder, were respectively presented the Animal Industry Service Award and ASAS Fellow in the extension award.
Damage JBS’ Marshalltown distribution center from severe weather and a tornado on Thursday, July 19, 2018 will force the company to dispose of more than 24 million pounds of pork.
Students at Iowa State University will host the sixth annual Bacon Expo on Oct. 6, at the Hansen Agriculture Student Learning Center, Ames, Iowa.