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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Wednesday, January 01, 2025
Senate Agriculture Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow is seeking a federal ethics investigation into a business deal between former Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue and agribusiness giant Archers Daniels Midland. The Washington Post reported this week that Perdue in early 2017 purchased an ADM soybean facility for $250,000 that was worth millions.
A powerful storm that brought high winds to a wide swath of Iowa and surrounding states has been labeled the most expensive thunderstorm in modern history and the second costliest weather event of 2020.
America's usual weather diverges from the arid U.S. West to the wet East Coast, but extreme rain events are getting more frequent, dumping more water, and this summer is a case in point.
Moderate flooding in the Ohio River Valley and lower Mississippi River, and worsening drought in the southern and central Plains, Southwest and California: That's what weather forecasters from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are predicting for the spring.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18, 2017 - Jim Gulliford is returning to the EPA as administrator for the agency’s Region 7, which covers Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2, 2017 - The “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico is bigger than it’s ever been, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said today.
