Aided by more than $11 million in grant funding, researchers plan to build a huge drilling rig and determine whether carbon ...

Iowa typically doesn't consider the impact on the environment because it's outside the water permitting process, according to ...

Impaired waters have an identified pollutant that exceeds water quality standards and require a water improvement plan, known ...

The maize nested association mapping population includes 5,000 lines of corn grown at 11 locations, and genetic and physical ...

Researchers at MIT are developing innovative agricultural technologies such as stress-signaling plants, microbial fertilizers, and protective seed coatings to adapt farming to climate change and ...

Yet many of these same folks regularly add fertilizer to their garden soil as a means of keeping plants healthy and productive, especially in vegetable gardens, since these plants do often have ...

Iowa congressional leaders are asking U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to investigate the closure of a chicken processing plant that filed for bankruptcy last month, leaving the state to ...

Plant-based diets have soared in popularity as people look for ways to improve their health, reduce their carbon footprint, and consume less (or no) animal products. But while following plant ...

including the impact on fertilizer costs for farmers, the welfare of the Lee County plant’s 260 employees and their families, and the implications for tax incentives applied to the Iowa ...

HAS FUN AND STAY SAFE. MARCUS. THANK YOU. NEW FROM PERRY. CITY LEADERS SAY A COMPANY IS IN NEGOTIATIONS WITH TYSON FOR THE PORK PLANT THAT CLOSED OVER THE SUMMER. THE MAYOR MENTIONED THE TALKS AT ...

Iowa Fertilizer hopes to fill the gap with a nitrogen fertilizer plant currently under construction in Lee County, Iowa, and set for full operation by the fourth quarter of 2015. “We see shale ...

NextEra is assessing the Duane Arnold plant, which was Iowa's only nuclear power station until its 2020 shutdown, and speaking with regulators with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and local ...