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John Whitaker (Iowa politician) John R. Whitaker (born 1956) is the head of the United States Department of Agriculture's Farm Service Agency in Iowa, a former Iowa State Representative from the 90th District, [1] and a former assistant House majority leader. He served in the Iowa House of Representatives from 2003 until his July 17, 2009 ...
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service. The Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (ASCS) was an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture. It administered programs concerning farm products and agricultural conservation. It granted loans to farmers; purchased farm products from farmers and processors ...
Website. fsa.usda.gov. The Farm Service Agency (FSA) is the United States Department of Agriculture agency that was formed by merging the farm loan portfolio and staff of the Farmers Home Administration (FmHA) and the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (ASCS). The Farm Service Agency implements agricultural policy, administers ...
The state’s first H5N1 case on a dairy farm was reported June 5 in a 4,500-cow herd in O’Brien County, followed by a June 7 outbreak a 250-cow herd in Sioux County.
This is lower than the economic impact in Iowa of non-farm manufacturing, which accounts for 22.4% of total value added and 26.5% of total output. [3] Iowa's main agricultural outputs are hogs, corn, soybeans, oats, cattle, eggs and dairy products. Iowa is the nation's largest producer of ethanol and corn.
With more layoffs expected, experts question whether the downturn will be short-lived or replicate the six-year agricultural recession that began in 2014, costing 5,670 farm-related jobs in Iowa ...
The Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) is a cost-share and rental payment program of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Under the program, the government pays farmers to take certain agriculturally used croplands out of production and convert them to vegetative cover, such as cultivated or native bunchgrasses and grasslands, wildlife and pollinators food and shelter plantings ...
Iowa farmers are reporting “widespread, significant damage” to homes, outbuildings and grain bins after storms tore through the state Tuesday, Iowa Agriculture Secretary Mike Naig said Wednesday.