The Trump administration's federal purge left Iowa farmers and food systems out $11 million in USDA support. Anna Pesek, owner of Over the Moon Farm and Flowers in Coggin, explained how that money helped her farm grow and support other local businesses.
Due to the Trump administration's massive cuts to federal programs, the USDA announced earlier this month that it’s frozen payments on already-signed contracts to help schools and food banks buy from local farms. Food bank leaders are left wondering how to address the state's record-breaking need for emergency food support.
The Trump administration's federal purge left Iowa farmers and food systems out $11 million in USDA support. Mari Hunt Wasskink, owner of Black Earth Gardens near Cedar Rapids, and Marcus Johnson, owner of Buffalo Ridge Orchard in Orange City, explained how losing that money will impact their farms.
Trump set to roll out sweeping new ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs. And he's promising billions to big Ag to bail them out of problems HIS tariffs will cause.
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Over the past two weeks, Senate File 75, a bill exclusively and explicitly targeting counties with regent universities (Black Hawk, Johnson and Story), requires county supervisors to serve...
Zach: *sees US Sen. Corey Booker break a record by talking for over 24 hours* Hold my beer.
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Students across the country benefit from the Department of Education. A Des Moines special education teacher said her elementary kids are going to pay the price for the president's latest executive order to defund its programs.
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House Republicans want to remove Iowa’s discrimination protections for transgender Iowans. The bill is a long list touching on bathrooms, birth certificates and introduces a new phrase “gender...
The US Department of Veterans Affairs has dismissed more than 1,000 probationary employees just weeks after assuring stakeholders that a federal hiring freeze would not impact operations, raising...
