by Robin Opsahl, Iowa Capital Dispatch May 17, 2024 Gov. Kim Reynolds on Friday signed the final slate of bills remaining from the 2024 legislative session, including new laws related to the regulation of hemp-derived product and changes to the state’s boards and commissions. The signing of 20 bills marked the end of action on […]
DES MOINES, Iowa (May 13, 2024) – Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig commented on the Iowa Crop Progress and Condition Report released by the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service. The report is released weekly April through November. Additionally, the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship provides a weather summary each week during this […]
by Jared Strong, Iowa Capital Dispatch May 9, 2024 For the first time in nearly two years, no part of Iowa has extreme drought — the second-worst dryness classification of the U.S. Drought Monitor. A new report on Thursday that takes into account the significant rainfall of last week and early this week shows the […]
by Brooklyn Draisey, Iowa Capital Dispatch May 8, 2024 When Yi-Yu Wang pictures the future, she hopes for a day when someone can just pop an empty water bottle in their car’s tank when running low on gas in order to deliver the energy it needs to keep driving. A graduate research assistant in the […]
Expert insight into when, where and how to find common mushrooms in Iowa AMES, Iowa – In Iowa, mushroom hunting is quite common. However, knowing the peak time to hunt for a particular mushroom can be challenging. Chelsea Harbach, a plant disease diagnostician in the Plant and Insect Diagnostic Clinic with Iowa State University Extension […]
DES MOINES, Iowa (May 6, 2024) – Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig commented on the Iowa Crop Progress and Condition Report released by the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service. The report is released weekly April through November. Additionally, the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship provides a weather summary each week during this […]
by Zach Spindler-Krage, Iowa Capital Dispatch May 4, 2024 When Kevin Hosbond was teaching English and coaching speech in the rural southeast Iowa school district of Fairfield, his position was on the chopping block three separate times. Each time, students and parents convinced the school board to save his position. Kevin Hosbond, an English teacher […]
by Jared Strong, Iowa Capital Dispatch May 2, 2024 Dairy cattle infected by avian influenza in recent months have surprisingly large amounts of the virus in their milk but little in other bodily fluids, according to tests by the Iowa State University Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory. That makes it easy to confirm whether a lactating cow […]
by Robin Opsahl, Iowa Capital Dispatch May 1, 2024 Gov. Kim Reynolds signed into law a measure speeding up income tax cuts, lowering Iowa’s individual income tax to a 3.8% single tax rate beginning in 2025. Reynolds signed Senate File 2442 into law Wednesday, a measure speeding up the cut made in 2022 to decrease […]
by Clark Kauffman, Iowa Capital Dispatch April 30, 2024 A Cedar Rapids city employee is seeking workers’ compensation benefits for injuries he attributes to the city’s repeated promotion of the COVID-19 vaccine. State and court records indicate that in April 2021, the City of Cedar Rapids began hosting vaccine clinics and sending out emails and […]
