Single Payer health care plan advocates took direct action to get answers from Nancy Pelosi on November 3rd. Fifteen people occupied her San Francisco office, demanding to talk with the Speaker of the House, who was in DC at the

AMES -- Fifty-one Iowans have earned state 4-H project awards, the highest achievement 4-H'ers can receive in project work, according to an ISU Extension news release.

Gov. Chet Culver's proposed 10 percent across-the-board state budget cut will have a "dramatic effect" on the Iowa Department of Agriculture, state Agriculture Secretary Bill Northey says.

Harvest season is definitely upon us. The season has been fairly interesting. Much of the Midwest had a wet spring, then we somehow missed summer.

DES MOINES -- Merging the Iowa departments of Agriculture and Natural Resources is one suggestion in the midst of Iowa's fiscal crisis.

The prolonged moist conditions during the delayed corn harvest are conducive for molds to develop on grain in the field.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The USDA will distribute about $1.7 billion in CRP rental payments to participants across the country in fiscal 2010.

ARLINGTON, Va. -- Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) recently announced it has tentatively accepted 154 bids in the fourth herd retirement it has conducted in the past 12 months.

It seems like too few people pay much attention to often-heard comments: "Life is short," "you only live once" and "you can't take it with you."

In the nature of "going green," the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 supports the effort with federal tax credits for energy efficiency for individual homes.

GOLDFIELD -- Wagon by wagon, semi by semi, Midwestern co-ops and grain elevators are learning how to operate alongside grain users in the ethanol era.

Grain is filling bins across the country this fall, but farmers wonder what yields will be next year.

INWOOD -- Mike Ver Steeg says when he was growing up, he noticed his father, Gene, had more to do that just farm and raise pigs.

MONTICELLO --- The Castle Grove Country Club in Monticello may not be a place most farmers want to visit when they hear the name.

DES MOINES --- Supporters of the World Food Prize got a chance last week to celebrate the dedication of a new Hall of Laureates named after the prize's founder, the late Norman E. Borlaug.

Iowa Farmer Today DES MOINES -- Bill Gates started his speech at last week's World Food Prize Symposium by asking a simple question: "how do you help people who live on less than a dollar a day?"

The H1N1 flu virus was found in an Indiana commercial swine herd, the USDA confirmed Monday, making it the first such discovery in the United States.

SEYMOUR -- Ray Cook, like many other farmers in Wayne County and South Central Iowa, had not started his harvest as of Oct. 8.

WASHINGTON, Iowa ith the fields too wet to finish the soybean harvest, Southeast Iowa farmer Jim Cuddeback had to switch to corn, something he doesn't like to do.