Another dairy herd infected with highly pathogenic avian influenza has been reported in Sioux County, making it the fifth such outbreak in the northwest Iowa county. The Iowa Department of Agriculture ...

Technician Blake Iske looks out over farmland adjacent to the Marshall Ridge Renewable Energy Center in State Center on Sept. 18. The facility’s three anaerobic manure digesters extract methane from ...

AMES, Iowa – Matt McGarry grew up on a farm near DeWitt in eastern Iowa. His family raised hogs, cattle, chicken and even peacocks – everything but the animal that fascinated him the most: dairy cows.

When the four Hansen brothers came back to the small family dairy farm in Hudson, Iowa, which had operated since 1864, things needed to expand. So, in 2004, the family built its own on-site creamery ...

ORANGE CITY, Iowa — Bird flu has been infecting dairy cows in Northwest Iowa for the past two weeks, and experts say the situation is evolving so rapidly that even they strain to keep up-to-the-minute ...

State Agriculture Secretary Mike Naig is asking the USDA to compensate dairy operations struck by bird flu. Naig said it’s a typical move when there’s an animal disease outbreak that leads to the loss ...

Bird flu has now been identified in 13 Iowa dairy herds, the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship announced Thursday. The most recent cases in Sioux County comes amid growing concerns ...

Iowa has reported its first case of bird flu in a herd of dairy cattle. The Iowa Department of Agriculture reported Wednesday that Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza has been detected at an O'Brien ...

HUDSON, Iowa (KCRG) - An eastern Iowa dairy farmer said the two significant heat waves we’ve seen so far this summer have had an impact on his herd. Temperatures cooled down Tuesday after a stretch of ...

SIOUX COUNTY, Iowa — Outbreaks of avian influenza have made their way across the state of Iowa with the most recent announcement of an infection in a dairy herd Wednesday, June 5. That case was ...