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Fareway and Murphy Family Foundation team up for 6th annual food donation

This past Tuesday, the Murphy Family Foundation teamed up with Fareway for the sixth year in a row of donating Easter meal kits to the Food Bank of Io...

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Feeding the Economy report shows agriculture's impact

Each year, the Feeding the Economy Report measures the downstream, off-the-farm economic impact of U.S. agriculture. Danny Munch, an economist with th...

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Hog inventories up in March

The latest Quarterly Hogs and Pigs Report from USDA shows an increase in inventories. USDA livestock analyst Michael McConnell says the total number o...

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Secretary Naig issues statement on the Trump administration's RFS volumes

Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig today issued the following statement after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized strong renewabl...

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