DES MOINES — Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig today announced two agribusinesses and two Certified Crop Advisers as recipients of the Secretary’s Iowa Ag Leader Award for Conservation. Naig recognized businesses Montag Manufacturing of Emmetsburg, Klinkenborg Aerial Spraying and ...

AMES — A new research building has been built on the north end of the Iowa State University campus, the result of an $88 million project designated for bioscience facility improvements. The Advanced Teaching and Research Building (ATRB) is a new state of the art research facility that ...

SIOUX CENTER — With the addition of new curriculum, degrees and a rise in student body numbers, the Dordt College of Agriculture has been forced to expand with plans in place for further improvement and growth. Gary De Vries, instructor of agriculture and agriculture department chair for ...

GILMORE CITY — Step into the lunch room of the 1940s-vintage elementary school in Gilmore City around noon, and be prepared for a steady patter of tennis shoes, the low roar of children’s voices echoing from the doorway to the stage, and enthusiastic comments like, “Yeah, carrots” ...

Whether it be advances in precision agriculture, animal science, crop production or other educational areas within the realm of agriculture, professors Mike Richards and Mike Robertson with Iowa Central Community College’s agricultural technology program are doing what it takes to keep ...

SPENCER — If not for the big dreams of a group of people more than a century ago, the Clay County Fair may never have achieved the title of “World’s Greatest County Fair.” The fair only came about in September 1918 after the community took part in various homestead era fairs, ag ...