Ranchers must pay $1 per head of cattle sold to an organization some say works against their interests. The organization, known as a checkoff, says it represents producers of all sizes.
When you have orbited the sun as many times as I have, people sometimes want to tap into the insights you have gathered through the years. Young journalists and newsroom
Editor's Note: This story was updated Dec. 9, 2021, to include news
that Darcy Havel-Sturdevant contracted COVID-19 again.
The migraines, exhaustion and shortness of breath have
There’s a big birthday coming up in Iowa in about a month.
This place we call home — these 55,800 square miles of farm fields, wooded land, and clusters
In the rolling hills of northeast Iowa, amid fields of cattle and corn, sits a simple, cream-colored building.
The gravel road leading to the dwelling climbs an incline. A
Iowa’s Buddhist population grew in the last several decades with new places to practice -- Cedar Rapids, Clive, Decorah. Now Indianola.
The latest is in Warren County’s county seat
From Iowa to Oklahoma to Kansas, universities are working more closely with agribusiness in search of ways to pay for projects where tax dollars have become more scarce. Critics worry that agriculture schools might focus more on industry than the public interest.
In 2013, mammoth U.S. investment company TIAA-CREF gave $5 million to the University of Illinois — to study an area of investment where the company has made a, sometimes controversial, name for itself.
You have to marvel at the capacity of the human spirit — especially the ability of people who remain optimistic and upbeat in the face of challenges most of us can’
