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Craig Hill: Together We Must Fight Misinformation About Ag
by: DSM Register
Misinformation about food and farming that gets shared on Facebook, Twitter and other social media channels threatens gains in agriculture, the leader of Iowa's largest ag group said Wednesday.
"It seems that people who don't farm and don't understand farming have plenty of opinions about how we, as farmers, should be farming," Craig Hill, president of the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation, told about 1,000 farmers Wednesday.
"This new threat that's emerged is one that places limits on our progress," Hill said during the group's annual meeting in Des Moines.
Hill said after his speech he's concerned about people who don't use "a lot of science or education," spreading messages that "prey on people's fears."
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Instructor Uses Conservation Practices To Teach Students
Iowa's 2017 Ag Education Teacher of the Year is practicing what he teaches while farming his 122 cropland acres in Story County, near Nevada. Kevin Cooper has no-tilled his corn and soybeans for about a decade, and this year added cover crops by seeding 30 acres of oats into soybeans in August.
Cooper, a longtime teacher at Nevada High School, purchased farmland in 2001. Although much of Story County is known for its flat topography, Cooper's farm ground is located in the southeast part of the county where gently rolling hills are prone to soil erosion.
According to soil conservationist Hillary Olson, with the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service and one of Cooper's former students who helped him develop his conservation plan, the oats are Cooper's introductory lesson to farming with cover crops. "The oats will help with erosion control and keep living roots in the soil for a longer period of time," says Olson. "Radishes or turnips might be other options to help break soil compaction and to help with soil biology."
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Prestage Reversal Still a Hot Issue in North Iowa
by: Brownfield News
Reversal on a proposed pork processing plant in northern Iowa remains a polarizing event for the area.
North-central Iowa pork producer Larry Sailer says the controversy surrounding Prestage Farms looking to build a pork processing plant near Mason City and the ensuing public outcry that lead to Prestage officials moving the project to Eagle Grove is still a very hot issue.
"Just the fact that the packing plant didn't go away, it just moved about 50 miles. And the perception is that we're going to build a lot more facilities, which is actually a good thing. It's good for our economy, it's more jobs."
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CHS Inc. Closes Plant in Creston
CHS Inc.
(NASDAQ:CHSCP) abruptly closed its plant in Hutchinson, Kansas; a plant in Creston, Iowa; and innovation and technology center in Eagan, Minnesota. The closures announced by CHS, the country's largest farmer-owned co-operative, resulted in 144 layoffs.
While the locations are already closed, employees will be paid through to January 30, 2018.
The company said the closures were done in order to restore "financial flexibility" and position the company for "long-term success."
The closure of the Hutchinson facility resulted in the biggest job losses, at 77. At the Creston facility, 53 employees were laid off.
CHS Inc. is a leading global agribusiness owned by farmers, ranchers, and cooperatives across the U.S. The Fortune 100 company supplies energy, crop nutrients, grain marketing services, animal feed, food and food ingredients, along with insurance, financial, and risk management services.
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Upcoming Events
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Agribusiness Showcase & Conference Committee
Dec 19, 2017
10 AM
AAI Board Room
Christmas Holiday
Office Closed
December 25
New Years Holiday
Office Closed
January 1, 2018
Advanced Grain Elevator Operations Management Short Course
Jan 8 - 12, 2018
Ames, Iowa
AAI Executive Committee Meeting
Jan 16, 2018
10 AM
AAI Board Room
AAI Legislative Breakfast
Jan 23, 2018
7 - 9 AM
Iowa Capital
AAI Board Meeting
Jan 23, 2018
9:30 AM
AAI Board Room
Agribusiness Showcase & Conference
Feb 13-14, 2018
VI Building, Fairgrounds
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