farming

Farmers Hen House sold to New Hampshire-based egg farm

Pete & Gerry’s Organics, LLC, a nationwide brand for humane egg farming, has purchased Farmers Hen House, a humane egg farm based in Kalona, as stated in a news release. The company’s family of brands includes Pete & Gerry’s Organic®,…

Seeding the field

Coming off an unprecedented year that saw not only a global pandemic affect every aspect…

China’s swine fever woes fuel U.S. pork exports

A 15% jump in U.S. pork exports through the first 10 months of 2020, fueled…

Reynolds seeking USDA disaster designation

The USDA has estimated that 3.57 million acres of corn and 2.5 million acres of…

crops

Rantizo authorized to swarm multiple drones nationwide

A Rantizo drone applies fungicide on a field. CREDIT RANTIZO  By CBJ News Staff [email protected]

Will Year of the Pig be good to Iowa?

Iowa farmers, manufacturers looking for prosperity signals as trade talks continue By Emery Styron [email protected]

Rantizo looks to drones as ag’s next frontier

A six-rotor hexacopter drone is being used by Rantizo as it develops its autonomous crop…

Farmers brace as China levies retaliatory tariffs

Farmer Dave Walton, of Walton Farms, shown in a Cedar County field last October. “For…