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National Beef, the fourth largest beef packer in the U.S., has announced that the company's purchase of Iowa Premium has been finalized.

After the cancellation of the World Pork Expo, PETA plans to display a new billboard, with a anti-pork production message, near the Iowa State Fairgrounds.

An Iowa-based community activist org and a Washington-based environmental group have filed a lawsuit against the state of Iowa alleging they have deprived residents of their right to clean water.

The flooding is expected to continue throughout the week in several states as high water flows down the Missouri River.

The Iowa Legislature has sent to the governor a bill designed to prosecute people who get hired at a livestock farm in order to record animal living conditions.

The move by National Beef – the fourth largest beef packer in the U.S. – to purchase Iowa Premium adds additional 1,100 head per day of packing capacity to the company.

A farmer and a farm worker are on probation after applying liquid manure onto a field that resulted in runoff into a nearby stream. The farm was fined $50,000.

South-central Iowa authorities are investigating after dozens of head of cattle were found starved to death on property near Osceola.

An idle meat-processing plant that closed in 2014 in northwest Iowa will reopen this week with new owners.

A federal judge struck down an Iowa law that made it illegal to get a job at a livestock farm to conduct an animal cruelty undercover investigation on Wednesday.