Ethanol production, supply down on week

U.S. ethanol production dropped last week. The U.S. Energy Information Administration says production was the lowest since late June at an average of 1.061 million barrels per day, a decrease […]

Sioux Center Schools on Lockdown – UPDATE

The Sioux Center Police Department responded to a threat discovered in the Sioux Center Community School District high school building. The school district is in a lockdown in all district […]

Consumers predict food inflation to get lower

An ag economist at Purdue University says consumer estimates for food price inflation declined in the latest Consumer Food Insights Report. Joseph Balagtas with Purdue’s Center for Food Demand Analysis […]

USDA’s Bonnie concerned about solar farms

A USDA official is concerned solar installations will take productive farmland out of production. Undersecretary for farm production and conservation Robert Bonnie tells Brownfield. “I hear it everywhere I go, […]

Minnesota farmer combats crop diseases

Many corn and soybean farmers faced significant disease pressure this season. Rob Tate farms near Cannon Falls in southeast Minnesota and says conditions suited plant pathogens. “We decided to spray […]

Demolition underway on LeBaron Hall at ISU

Students and faculty are watching, taking pictures and video today on the northwest corner of the campus in Ames as LeBaron Hall is coming down to make way for a […]

Lyon County Disaster Recovery Center to Close

According to a press release from FEMA and Iowa Homeland Security and Emergency Management, the Disaster Recovery Center for Lyon County will permanently close this Saturday at 6pm.  The center […]