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Iowa Crop Progress and Condition Report for July 7 – July 13, 2025
KCHA News - Iowa
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July 15, 2025
Iowa Crop Progress and Condition Report….July 7 – July 13, 2025 DES MOINES, Iowa (July 14, 2025) – Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig commented on the Iowa Crop Progress and Condition Report released by the USDA National Agricultural...
Trump Has Systematically Cut Access to Natural Disaster Prevention Resources
The Assembly - North Carolina
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July 15, 2025
This story is republished through our partnership with NOTUS. The city of Norman, Oklahoma, was prepared to build an automatic flood warning system this year—the same kind of early warning system that Kerr County, Texas, could have used to help...
Iowa State University Fruit and Vegetable Field Day coming soon
Farm Forum - South Dakota
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AMES, Iowa – The horticulture team with Iowa State University Extension and Outreach will hold the 2025 Fruit and Vegetable Field Day on Tuesday, Aug. 5, from 2 to 5:30 p.m. at the ISU Horticulture Research Station. The annual event will feature...
Plenty of rain for Iowa crops as pollination continues
KXEL News - Iowa
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July 16, 2025
June is historically the wettest month in Iowa, and this year was no different. Heading into July, we normally expect things to dry off a little bit, but that’s where things have been surprising. Dr. Justin Glisan, state climatologist for Iowa,...
Sally Dix: 2025 Women of Influence Honoree
Business Record - Iowa
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July 18, 2025
Education: Bachelor’s in environmental science from Northwestern University; master’s in environmental science and policy from Johns Hopkins University, MBA from University of Iowa Hometown: Chicago Family: Husband Patrick, sons Will and J.T....
Opinion: We need a cure for America’s Independence Day hangover
The Gazette - Iowa
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Community members enjoy the annual Fourth of July fireworks housed by the Cedar Boat Club at Ellis Harbor in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (Geoff Stellfox/The Gazette) Buy Photo The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may...
Iowa Environmental Council (IEC) Offers Free Educational Webinars on Key Environmental Issues Facing Iowa Today
River Cities' Reader - Iowa
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July 13, 2025
DES MOINES, IOWA (July 13, 2025) — Public education is central to IEC's mission to create a just, healthy environment and sustainable future for all Iowans. This summer, we are pleased to present learning opportunities that help Iowans better...
Opinion: Iowa should connect habitats
The Gazette - Iowa
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The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Drive across Iowa’s landscape, and you’ll likely see a lot of corn and soybean fields. In between are lakes, rivers, forested areas, wetlands, grassy...
Iowa State football: Matt Campbell's culture-first vision paying off
The Ames Tribune - Iowa
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Iowa State football coach Matt Campbell prioritized culture and relationships amidst the changing landscape of college sports. Despite NIL deals and transfer portal temptations, Iowa State has retained key players who value the team's culture....
Cargill Opens BioTech Center for Sustainable Manufacturing
Twin Cities Business - Minnesota
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July 15, 2025
The $300 million center in Iowa will turn locally grown corn into a plant-based chemical that can be used to make consumer goods. Next week, Cargill will cut the ribbon on a pioneering new manufacturing center in Eddyville, Iowa that it describes...
Qore starts up large-scale bio-based butanediol plant in Iowa
Chemical Engineering
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July 15, 2025
July 15, 2025 | By Mary Bailey Qore, a joint venture of Cargill, Inc. (Minneapolis, Minn.) and HELM AG (Hamburg, Germany), is officially starting production of QIRA, the world’s first large-scale 1,4-butanediol (BDO) made from locally grown dent...
Federal AmeriCorps cuts leave Iowa’s programs scrambling and members uncertain
Iowa Public Radio
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July 15, 2025
In the early summer of 2008, heavy flooding caused the Mississippi River to spill into towns along Iowa’s southeastern border. Thousands of people were evacuated from their homes, and hundreds of structures were submerged, with some estimates...
Historic Iowa City bar ‘Fieldhouse’ finds new home on Clinton Street
The Daily Iowan
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July 15, 2025
Iconic Iowa City bar “Fieldhouse” is moving into a larger space on South Clinton Street for its 50th anniversary. The move coincides with the new country bar Hazzard County American Salon opening up in the former Fieldhouse location. The space...
Mississippi River bridge between Iowa and Wisconsin to close this fall
Radio Iowa
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July 15, 2025
The 94-year-old Mississippi River bridge between southwest Wisconsin and Lansing, Iowa, that’s been temporarily closed twice during construction of a replacement will be permanently closed this fall. Iowa DOT engineer Clayton Burke said the new...
Explore Local Pollinators On PEEC’s Butterfly Walk July 26
Los Alamos Daily Post - New Mexico
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July 18, 2025
Butterfly perched on a purple flower. Courtesy/PEEC PEEC News: The Pajarito Environmental Education Center (PEEC) invites community members to experience the beauty and wonder of local butterflies during a Butterfly Walk from 9–11 a.m., Saturday,...
Opinion: Cutting science funding threatens our freedom to flourish
The Gazette - Iowa
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The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. As a PhD candidate at the University of Iowa, I focus on cleaning up toxic “forever chemicals” in soils and sediments at the bottom of bodies of water,...
Tips for Managing Slugs in No-Till Fields
No-Till Farmer - Wisconsin
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July 18, 2025
Slugs can be a constant problem in certain climates and no-till fields, as this reader can attest to. Here are what his colleagues suggested to fight back. To join the discussion sign up for our No-Till Email Discussion Group at...
Opinion: Iowa can be a recreational superpower
The Gazette - Iowa
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The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. As Chris Jones so eloquently pointed out recently, the BS meter of “cropaganda” oozing from the mouths of our political and agricultural leaders was...
Zach Wahls helped defeat a marriage ban in Iowa. Now he’s running against the ban’s sponsor.
LGBTQ Nation - California
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July 15, 2025
In 2011, 19-year-old Zach Wahls gave a passionate and career-defining speech about his two moms at a hearing of the Iowa House Judiciary Committee, as the legislature considered an amendment to ban same-sex marriage in Iowa’s Constitution. “You...
Eric Church completes jaw-dropping three-night run at Red Rocks
Entertainment Focus
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July 18, 2025
Eric Church has completed his three night run at Red Rocks Ampitheatre, leaving fans with their jaws on the floor. Earlier this week Church arrived at the venue for the first time in nine years. He joked with his crew, “I was a younger man the...