Support from Iowa lawmakers for stricter farm safety regulation does not exist in their new legislative session. This is despite agriculture being Iowa’s deadliest occupation and limited Occupational Safety and Health Administration enforcement and coverage.
Support from Iowa lawmakers for stricter farm safety regulation does not exist in the new legislative session. This is despite agriculture being Iowa’s deadliest occupation and limited Occupational Safety
Natural Resources Conservation Service officials predict that drought conditions will persist or intensify for much of the western United States. The predictions come after an unusually dry 2013 in much of the country, including California -- which experienced its driest year on record.
This month, officials from the National Agriculture Statistics Service began distributing irrigation surveys to U.S. farmers and ranchers. The surveys, administered every five years, analyze how agriculture producers use water and how they utilize irrigation. According to the most recent survey, far
Special IowaWatch/Investigative News Network report: The Iowa Department of Transportation does not track or permit vehicles carrying hazardous materials in Iowa.
WMT Radio’s Bob Bruce interviews IowaWatch Executive Director-Editor Lyle Muller each month about stories in the news, plus those on which IowaWatch is reporting. You can listen here
Recall announcements from this month reported that mechanically separated chicken produced by Tyson Foods recently caused seven people at a Tennessee correctional facility to become sick. Two of those people had to be hospitalized. The recall announcements also reported that a series of products had
The following is Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad’s 2014 Condition of the State address:
Madam Lieutenant Governor, Madam President, Mr. Speaker, Leaders, justices, judges, legislators, elected officials, distinguished guests, family,
Despite talk about bipartisanship, the Iowa legislative session started with party leaders voicing different agendas, but Gov. Terry Branstad remaining confident in an IowaWatch interview that the session would stay
IowaWatchers Lyle Muller, Lauren Mills, Sarah Hadley, Katie Kuntz, Stephen Gruber-Miller and Linh Ta were in Des Moines on Monday, Jan. 13, for the opening of the 2014 legislative
Federal food-safety agencies announced half a dozen recalls at the end of December, including recalls for chicken contaminated with potentially dangerous bacteria and for chocolate-Santa candy with undeclared allergens. The recalls come only a couple weeks after a Colorado company recalled more than
