In February, the U.S. Department of Agriculture released a forward-looking reporting on the state of U.S. agriculture. The department's Economic Research Service took the lead on the report, which outlines U.S. agricultural production and trade through 2024. Here are the highlights in one graphic.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently released its agriculture projections, which run through 2024. The projections bring good news for those in the livestock industry, as U.S. meat exports are expected to grow.
College kids go out on Friday nights, have a few drinks, and decide they need a cigarette. They have been told that cigarettes can cause cancer. But no one bombards them with danger warnings about their visit to the tanning booth earlier in the day.
IowaWatch's executive director-editor Lyle Muller spoke about stories that college students in Iowa are reporting and writing for IowaWatch when he was a guest on the Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2015, "Your Town" show on KXIC radio, AM 800, in Iowa City.
More than one of every three Iowans voted a straight party ticket in last November's election. Now, some in the legislature are trying to eliminate the practice altogether.
The Farm Bill passed by Congress a year ago will have far reaching effects on federal conservation efforts throughout the Midwest. The bill slashed conservation funding by $4 billion and reduced the number of acres allowed into the Conservation Reserve Program by millions.
An Alfred, Lord Tennyson poem, "Enoch Arden," tells the story of a man shipwrecked on an island for 10 years who returns home to find his wife happily married to his childhood friend. Never revealing himself to his wife, he dies of a broken heart. During the U.S. Civil War, this work of fiction came
Iowa legislators are taking another look at legislation to prohibit cellphone use while driving, in an effort to give more teeth to the current texting law. Last year, legislation that proposed making texting while driving a primary offense, meaning law enforcement officials could pull drivers over
The weekly column “Iowa Stories,” a collection of stories about notable events in Iowa’s history by Cheryl Mullenbach, has joined the list of regular IowaWatch.org offerings.
