To mark the unofficial start of summer over Memorial Day weekend, my partner and I went hiking at Geode State Park near our home in rural southeast Iowa. As we walked around the lake, we came across ...

Biosecurity measures include safeguarding producer confidentiality during a foreign animal disease outbreak to encourage ...

A new study from the Iowa Pork Producers Association finds the hog industry contributed more than $15-billion to Iowa’s economy last year. Association spokesman Kevin Hall says the study, which is ...

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Prosecutors have dropped trespassing charges against an activist who helped secretly record Iowa’s largest pork producer using heat to kill thousands of hogs last year as the ...

Larry Alliger stands in one of his finishing barns for hogs at his farm near Gowrie. Alliger also grows corn and soybeans. Over the last two years, several large pork packers have closed plants in ...

TOKYO — The Olympics allow countries to set aside grievances and prove we are more alike than different. Over half a century ago with feelings still mixed between Japan and America, a group of Iowa ...