October is pork month, a good time to reflect on the year in pork production thus far—and, what a year it has been! Agriculture has grown to 31 percent of the state’s total economic output, manure is finally getting the spotlight it deserves for rebuilding soil health and protecting ...

Traditional marketing and promotional efforts may not work any longer with the Gen Z consumer and commodity groups must adapt to these changes, advises public relations professor Wes Jamison. During Iowa Swine Day, held in June on the Iowa State University Campus in Ames, Jamison spoke ...

Tim Simmons has been working with some form of a tool almost his entire life — whether that was as a woodworker, mechanic or machinist. And inevitably the tools he used would wear down and need sharpened. For a long time, Simmons had a guy he could call for his sharpening needs. ...

Fort Dodge-based C & S Products was recently named one of the Iowa Association of Business and Industry’s Legends in Manufacturing. And Karen Alstott, who co-founded the company along with her husband Kevin Alstott in 1986, said the company’s success is directly attributed to its ...

The October World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WADSE) report was released last Thursday by the USDA and according to Todd Hultman, DTN grain market analyst, the report for corn is appearing bearish with soybeans doing the opposite and coming in bullish. “Corn’s numbers were ...

ANKENY — Long before Clare Lindahl knew much about agriculture, and years before she began working with farmers and communities to improve water quality, she knew one thing — Chad Pregracke was a rock star. “I was in community college class in the Quad Cities and was taking an ...