Nicholas Gluba is “very confident” that he and other Libertarian candidates will make it onto election ballots this fall, he told reporters after making his case for governor at the Iowa State Fair. The Libertarian gubernatorial candidate took to the Des Moines Register Political Soapbox stage Thursday afternoon to speak with fairgoers about his priorities […]
The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship announced Tuesday an expansion of a popular cost-share conservation program that helps farmers convert cropland to pasture. The program has existed since 2016 in select southwestern Iowa counties where it has helped farmers convert more than 16,000 acres of less-productive cropland into pasture. Now, with funding from […]
ALLEMAN – Hydrologic monitoring stations that help researchers compile flood and drought information useful for farmers and communities will soon be deployed across all of southwestern Iowa, following funding announced Friday by U.S. Rep. Zach Nunn. The $500,000 in federal funding will add 18 hydrologic monitoring stations to Iowa’s existing monitor network, and help establish […]
Water quality is shaping up to be a big issue in many of Iowa’s races for the Nov. 3 election but especially in Iowa’s race for secretary of agriculture, where Republican incumbent Mike Naig faces water quality advocate and Democratic candidate Chris Jones. Iowa Capital Dispatch sat down with each candidate to talk about water […]
I grew up in Bell County, which means I grew up hearing two promises. The first was jobs. The second was that whatever created those jobs would not hurt anybody. We got pretty good at believing the first one. The second one, not so much. So when hundreds of people packed the old courthouse in […]
My family farms just under 1,000 acres near the headwaters of the Minnesota River and the Red River on the continental divide. The view out our window is an expanse of fields and sky that spans for miles. Water that comes to our farm through rain and snow eventually ends up in the Minnesota River, […]
“You can’t fight city hall.” Resistance is futile. The powers that be always win. Pick one. If you need an excuse to justify inaction with a cynical shrug, there are plenty. But there are also plenty of examples of people who give enough of a damn to battle bureaucracy, to push back because they must. […]
BOONE – In a conference room at the Ericson Public Library Tuesday, cancer survivors, farmers, elected officials and community activists from Boone County discussed the things they have done to reduce their exposure to carcinogens and the things they hope will change in Iowa to help lower the state’s high cancer rates. The discussion in […]
