USDA expands effort to protect livestock industry from NWS

Dairy cows

September dairy webinar to discuss immigration enforcement for Iowa livestock and dairy producers

  • By Fred M. Hall │ Iowa State University Extension and Outreach
Feedlot intensive production system beef cattle. (iStock │ #2153732613 - shiota)

Missouri Steer Feedout Finale meeting is Sept. 9

Hay bales (U of A System Division of Agriculture courtesy photo by Dirk Philipp.)

Spring bumper hay crop followed by dry fall in Arkansas

  • By Mary Hightower │ U of A System Division of Agriculture
The U.S. Drought Monitor is jointly produced by the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration. (Map courtesy of NDMC.)

Heat and spotty rains hit Plains region

An older farmer surveys part of his cowherd. (Journal photo by Jennifer Theurer.)

Peel to look at cowherd during beef on dairy webinar

Farm with a red barn on a curving road in the Iowa countryside on a beautiful spring day. (iStock │ #2157489040 - Willard)

New report unpacks foreign interest and land leases in Iowa farmland

University of Missouri Extension crops entomologist Ivair Valmorbida urges farmers to scout soybean fields for the presence of the soybean tentiform leafminer, a new pest found for the first time in Missouri in August. This microscopic image shows the larva, which turns into a moth that is only ¼-inch long. (Photo by Ivair Valmorbida)

New soybean pest found in Missouri