- 07/09/09 - Iowa’s Maharishi University Serves Up Organic & Vegetarian Food in its Cafeteria
- 07/06/09 - Book Review on Ravaged Rural America: 'Methland'
- 06/22/09 - Vilsack Appoints Corporate Ag & Biotech Boosters from Iowa to Top USDA Positions
- 05/13/09 - A Year Later, Controversial Immigration Raid in Iowa Still Marks a Flashpoint
- 05/11/09 - In the Lush Dirt of Iowa, Community Grows Alongside Veggies
- 04/16/09 - Texas is Wind King, but Iowa Breezes Past California
- 04/07/09 - Can Chemical Abortions be Linked to Midwestern Agriculture?
- 02/25/09 - Manure Gives Off the Whiff of Money
- 02/25/09 - America's Municipal Meltdown: It's Tough Times for Troubled Towns
- 02/08/09 - State Seeks More Wetlands to Fight Pollution Runoff
- 02/03/09 - Iowa's Green Energy Policy Struggle
- 01/30/09 - USDA Chief Made $100k From an Iowa Power Company
- 01/23/09 - Drug-Resistant Staph Found in Midwestern Swine, Workers
- 01/23/09 - Minnesota-Based Company Opens Food Processing Center in Cresco
- 01/08/09 - Monsanto Continues Attempts to Cash in on Climate Change with Drought-Tolerant Corn
- 01/07/09 - Group Says a Federal Conservation Program Mostly Benefits Industrial Farms
- 01/05/09 - Iowa Shelves Toxin Rules
- 01/05/09 - More on Vilsack as Obama's USDA Chief
- 12/18/08 - GM Watch: Logic and Wisdom of Tom Vilsack
- 12/17/08 - Corporate Agribusiness Applauds Obama's Appointment of Vilsack as USDA Head
- 12/06/08 - Former Iowa State Legislator Fallon Applies for Job as 'White House Farmer'
- 12/03/08 - Tortilla Chips Going Biotech as Limits Change on Seeds
- 11/24/08 - Former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack Says He Will Not Be Obama's USDA Secretary
- 11/24/08 - Search On to Get Food Crops Out of Biofuels
- 11/14/08 - After Jail, Agriprocessors Workers Face a Difficult Journey
- 11/14/08 - OCA Stirs Up Controversy Around Possible Appointment of Ex-Governor Vilsack for Obama's USDA Secretary
- 11/12/08 - Local Organic Food Moves to Hospitals
- 11/12/08 - Six Reasons Why Obama Appointing Monsanto's Buddy, Former Iowa Governor Vilsack, for USDA Head Would be a Terrible Idea
- 11/10/08 - Nobel Laureate Rigoberta Menchu To Visit Postville
- 10/27/08 - Plunging Crop Prices and Higher Costs Cloud Horizon for Conventional Farmers in U.S.
- 10/24/08 - As Sustainable Farming Takes Root, Green Thumbs Get Greener
- 10/21/08 - More Than One Way to Raise a Hog
- 10/21/08 - Wind-Farm Contracts Stir Up Lots of Questions
- 10/21/08 - Immigration Raids vs. Enforcing Labor Rights
- 10/20/08 - Monsanto Hurting Iowa & U.S. Farmers
- 10/13/08 - The Crash: We've Seen This Before
- 10/10/08 - Rebuilding A Greener Iowa
- 10/08/08 - U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization Call for Urgent Review of Biofuel Subsidies
- 10/03/08 - Latest Farm News--Bailout Implications, Crop Prices, Weather, Biofuels & Farm Bill
- 10/01/08 - Latest Farm News--Bailout Implications, Crop Prices, Weather, Biofuels & Farm Bill
- 09/16/08 - List of Iowa's Impaired Waterways Growing
- 09/12/08 - Kosher Giant Turns to Supreme Court in Fight With Immigrants
- 09/09/08 - Permit Granted for Mega-Dairy Despite Intense Local Opposition
- 09/04/08 - Dark Meat
- 08/27/08 - Hundreds of Workers Held in Immigration Raid
- 08/24/08 - Obama and Big Corn
- 08/23/08 - Scott Kleeb: Our Newest Ally in the Senate?
- 08/22/08 - Grassroots Direct Action: San Francisco Voters Nov. 4 Will Tell Their Congress Reps to Defund the War
- 08/21/08 - Our Current Crisis is a Looming Catastrophe: These Revolutionary Times
- 08/21/08 - Open Letter to Obama: We Need a Liberal Shock Doctrine
- 08/18/08 - Iowa Town Turned into a Prison: Exploiting Immigrant Workers in Food Processing
- 08/12/08 - Why Buying Local Needs to Include Buying Organic
- 08/11/08 - Dispatches From the Fields: How CAFOs Came to Iowa Farm Country
- 08/11/08 - In Iowa, the Dog Days of Summer Mean Bountiful Farm Stands and Spicy Salsas
- 07/25/08 - Ethanol Production Soars but Opposition Mounts
- 07/24/08 - Has Your Town Declared Peace Yet?
- 07/14/08 - In Food, Big Money Still Goes to Corporate Agribusiness & Big Corporations
- 07/12/08 - Corn, Incorporated: The Ethanol Scam
- 07/02/08 - Damage at Sewer Plant Runs in the Millions
- 07/02/08 - Mayor Hopes to Stop D.M. From Buying Bottled Water
- 06/30/08 - States Taking Initiative on Environmental & Climate Crisis while Feds Do Little or Nothing
- 06/27/08 - Iowa's Chefs And Their Farmer-Suppliers Get Busy Recovering From Disaster
- 06/24/08 - Cleanup is 'Monstrous' Task
- 06/23/08 - Iowa: Agricultural Methods Exacerbate Flooding
- 06/19/08 - Iowa Flooding Could Be An Act of Man, Experts Say
- 06/19/08 - The Wal-Mart Effect: Small Bookstores Fight to Survive
- 06/19/08 - Crop Supply Concerns Persist, Policy Options Discussed
- 06/18/08 - Sewage, Chemicals, Fuel Contaminate Waterways
- 06/17/08 - Extreme Weather & Global Warming
- 06/17/08 - Midwest Floods, Food Inflation & Biofuels: Latest News
- 06/14/08 - If Rural America Really Mattered
- 06/11/08 - Move Over MoveOn: Grassroots Netroots Alliance (GNA) Launches New Progressive Campaign to 'Press the Politicians'
- 06/07/08 - MRSA Superbug Found to be Widespread in Pigs, Pig Farmers
- 06/02/08 - Growing Controversy Over Biofuels, Food Security, & Rising Food Prices
- 06/02/08 - The Jungle 2008: Government Manipulates Figures on America's Dangerous Meatpacking Plants
- 05/31/08 - Government Agencies and U. of Minnesota Sign Pledge in Support of Organic Agriculture in State
- 05/28/08 - Dirty Lakes, Beaches Cost Iowans Summer Fun, Profit
- 05/21/08 - Family Farmers Are Not to Blame for Food Crisis
- 05/20/08 - Concerns Over Ethanol Deserve Frank Discussion
- 05/15/08 - Center for American Progress: What Are You Paying for the War?
- 05/12/08 - Global Climate Change: What it Means to Iowa
- 05/07/08 - Iowa Pollution Perils Lurk Among Buried Fuel Tanks
- 05/02/08 - CSAs Can Transform Iowa's Farm Economy
- 04/21/08 - Proposal Would OK Open Piles of Manure
- 04/21/08 - To Make Local Food More Accessible, Time to Revive Mid-Sized Farms
- 04/20/08 - Parents Push for Organic School Lunches
- 04/17/08 - Tough Wage Enforcement Law Approved by States; Anti-Immigrant Measures Rejected
- 04/17/08 - Explosive Food Inflation--The Big Presidential Issue?
- 04/14/08 - Despite Monsanto's Lobbying & Arm Twisting Consumers and Dairies Are Rejecting Bovine Growth Hormone-Tainted Milk
- 04/14/08 - High Ammonia Levels Threaten D.M.'s Water
- 04/07/08 - Feed Supply, Costs Squeeze Organic Livestock Farmers
- 03/28/08 - Top Ten Barriers to Organic and Local Food Access for Low-Income Individuals
- 03/24/08 - How Safe is the U.S. Food Supply ?
- 03/15/08 - Milk Labels Do A Consumer Good
- 02/25/08 - Unapproved Biotech Corn Grown in Iowa
- 02/24/08 - Group Lobbies Lawmakers to End Income Tax Loophole
- 02/21/08 - Monsanto U: Agribusiness's Takeover of Public Schools
- 02/16/08 - Iowa Lawmakers Introduce Surface Water Protection Act
- 02/15/08 - Winter Farmers Markets Grow in Midwest
- 01/20/08 - Election Fraud & Paperless Ballots: Congress Must Act Fast to Address Looming National Emergency
- 01/16/08 - Initial Zoning Permission Denied to Iowa Monsanto Facility
- 01/16/08 - Local Opposition to Monsanto Seed Production Facility in Iowa
- 01/10/08 - Progressive States Network on What States are Trying to Clean Up Elections
- 01/08/08 - Kansas Voters Agree with Decision to Block Construction of Coal Plants, Poll Says
- 01/08/08 - Forget Oil, the New Global Crisis is Food
- 01/06/08 - Oil Pushes $100 a Barrel--Implications for Biofuels
- 01/03/08 - Climate Issues Get Unprecedented Focus in Iowa
- 01/03/08 - All Leading Candidates Except McCain Toe the Line on Ethanol in Iowa
- 01/02/08 - Wind Energy Industry Picks Up Speed in Iowa
- 12/28/07 - Iowans Want Energy Conservation Before New Coal Plants
- 12/27/07 - Thinking Locally on Water
- 12/26/07 - Midwest Farmers Embrace a Real Clean Energy Alternative: Wind Power
- 12/21/07 - Saving Wild Iowa
- 12/20/07 - Three River Cities Reimagine Their Waterfronts, and Themselves
- 12/17/07 - Iowa Plans Energy Independence By 2025
- 12/16/07 - Small Gains for Organic & Transition to Organic Farming in Senate Version of Farm Bill
- 12/14/07 - Farmers' Efforts to Protect Iowa Water Succeeding
- 12/13/07 - In Midwest Duck Blinds, Visions of Global Warming
- 12/11/07 - What's That Smell?
- 11/19/07 - The Hype Over Corn-Based Ethanol Fading as World Food Prices Rise
- 11/13/07 - New Plants Put King Coal in the Cross Hairs in Iowa
- 11/13/07 - The Ethanol Boom Seems to be Fading
- 11/05/07 - Poll: Iowa Sportsmen Say Global Warming Must Be Curbed
- 11/04/07 - Important Legislative News and Efforts on Climate Change
- 10/31/07 - New Book Published on 'Post-Carbon Cities'
- 10/30/07 - Presidential Candidate John Edwards Calls for a Moratorium on Factory Farm CAFOs
- 10/29/07 - Iowa Farmers Union 2007 Food and Family Farm Presidential Summit
- 10/29/07 - Iowa Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation Air Quality Study
- 10/25/07 - Hillary Clinton Cozy with Monsanto Lobbyists & Front Group
- 10/23/07 - Making Rural America a Priority
- 10/23/07 - GE Food Labels Hot Debate Among Presidential Candidates in Iowa
- 10/22/07 - Tom Philpott Wrapping up Grist Magazine's Food Series
- 10/22/07 - Living in CAFO Country
- 10/21/07 - Woodbury County, Iowa Wins National Award for Promoting Organic Agriculture
- 10/19/07 - Genetically Altered Food: Labels Hotly Debated in Iowa
- 10/15/07 - President's Budget to Cut Education Spending--New Interactive Map Shows How Much Each State Stands to Lose
- 10/15/07 - Edwards, Richardson, and Dodd Support Mandatory Labeling of Genetically Engineered Foods
- 10/11/07 - Your Food Doesn't Come From the Store: A Journey Into the Heart of Industrial Agriculture
- 10/08/07 - 100 Years of Anti-Corporate Farming Laws
- 10/08/07 - Commercial Cellulosic Ethanol Plant Underway in Iowa
- 10/07/07 - Publicly Funded Clean Elections Programs a Tough Sell Across U.S.
- 09/27/07 - Groups Petition for Removal of Iowa's Clean Water Authority
- 09/15/07 - Iowa Town Showcases the Ethanol Boom
- 09/11/07 - Carcinogenic Pesticide Pervasive in Midwest Drinking Water
- 09/04/07 - A Look at Wal-Mart Through Local Eyes
- 08/27/07 - Rivers Soak Up Pollution from Iowa's Aging Sewers
- 08/15/07 - Century Farm Families Honored at Iowa State Fair
- 08/09/07 - Farm Bill Forum Set in Ankeny
- 08/09/07 - Flex Fuel Fleet on Way for State Patrol
- 08/06/07 - 4-Day Iowa Global Warming March Culminates in Des Moines Rally
- 08/02/07 - Forget the Farm Bill: For Now, Local Politics is the Way to Effect Ag-Policy Change
- 07/26/07 - Farm Emissions Ruling Sparks Outrage
- 07/23/07 - Sales of Locally Produced, Organic Food in Iowa Reflects Strong National Trend
- 07/17/07 - Study: Over 60% of PVC Packaging Violates Laws in 19 States Across the Country
- 07/16/07 - Iowa Farmers Look to Trap Carbon in Soil
- 06/29/07 - Get Global Warming onto Gov. Culver's iPod!
- 06/19/07 - Sustainable Table Presents the Eat Well Guided Tour of America
- 06/14/07 - Group Seeks to Put Global Warming on Caucus Agenda
- 06/05/07 - Water Use: Biofuel Plants' Thirst Creates Water Worries
- 06/01/07 - Practical Farmers of Iowa Announces 2007 Field Days
- 05/31/07 - Wholesome Harvest: Strengthening Domestic Fair Trade
- 05/07/07 - Iowa's Historic Session
- 05/01/07 - ISU Study Finds it Pays to Have Organic Agriculture
- 04/20/07 - Iowa's Woodbury County Puts Stock in Organic Farming
- 04/19/07 - Woodbury County Puts Stock in Organic Farming
- 04/11/07 - Congress Takes Action to Upgrade School Food Laws; Vending Machines Targeted
- 04/04/07 - The Heartland Steps It Up--A Guest Post by Ed Fallon
- 04/03/07 - Farm Bill Food Sovereignty Tour 2007
- 03/14/07 - Action Spotlight: Wisconsin and Iowa Step It Up!
- 02/27/07 - Organic Association Takes Root
- 02/21/07 - Attend the 18th Annual Upper Midwest Organic Farming Conference, February 22-24th in La Crosse, Wisconsin
- 02/21/07 - Ready, Ames, Fire
- 02/19/07 - College Grant to Boost Organic Agriculture
- 02/16/07 - Senate Condemns U.S. Troop Surge
- 02/07/07 - More Iowans Go Organic
- 02/04/07 - Farmers, leaders discuss local food
- 01/07/07 - Iowa Wind Plant Will Store Energy
- 12/13/06 - 'Certified' Organic Candidate Wins in Iowa
- 10/28/06 - Oilseed Processor Pays $13.9 Million for Clean Air Violations
- 10/12/06 - Secretary of Agriculture Race in Iowa: Organic Versus Industrial Ag
- 10/09/06 - Iowa Town Will House Huge Learning Center Modeled After 'Eden' in Britain
- 09/27/06 - Farm to Table Day Held for Iowa Fourth Graders
- 09/27/06 - WIC Proposal to Improve Access for Iowans
- 09/26/06 - Organic Farmer Denise O'Brien Could Be Next Iowa Secretary of Agriculture
- 09/26/06 - Factory Farms No Benefit in the Long Run
- 09/25/06 - Cornucopia & OCA Denounce Wal-Mart's War on Organic Farmers
- 09/20/06 - Iowa Eyes Calif. Hemp Move
- 09/14/06 - Whole Foods Grocery Chain to Buy Locally Produced Organic Food from Innovative Iowa County
- 09/08/06 - Massive Boondoggle of Growing Corn for Ethanol Will Soon Transform the Corn Belt & Recharge GE Corn Industry
- 03/23/06 - Corn-Based Ethanol from a Coal-Fired Plant: Carbon Cloud over a Green Fuel
- 03/05/06 - Monsanto's GE Alfalfa Sows Resistance from Critics
- 03/01/06 - Corporate Agribusiness Wants to Restrict Your Free Speech
- 04/15/05 - Study Shows Increasing Consumer Support for Locally Grown Foods
- 04/14/05 - US States Passing Laws to Block Local GMO-Free Ordinances
- 05/11/03 - Massive Factory Farms & Open-Air Cesspools a Mounting Threat to Public Health
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