Hurricane-force winds swept from northern Missouri and Iowa all the way east to Illinois and Indiana. The derecho brought wind gusts up to 100 mph, flattening cornfields, but it also drenched soils with crucial rains.
The federal Environmental Protection Agency has reached a settlement that requires a kosher meat processing plant in northeastern Iowa to pay a $43,000 penalty.
Leaders in the northwest Iowa town of Cherokee want to see another company make use of the former Tyson Foods meat-processing plant just outside town, but they say the food company is making it hard to find a new tenant.
Attorneys for imprisoned kosher meatpacking executive Sholom Rubashkin say they have found "overwhelming evidence" of prosecutorial misconduct that proves his 27-year prison sentence for money laundering is too harsh.
A businessman who is considered a pioneer in the U.S. halal foods industry was sentenced Thursday to two years in prison for committing fraud in exporting beef products to Malaysia and Indonesia.
Supporters of a prominent businessman and Muslim community leader packed a federal courtroom Friday to ask a judge to spare him prison time for committing fraud in exporting halal beef products to Malaysia and Indonesia.
A little rough around the edges? Maybe. Quick as a whip? Most certainly. Sincere? Definitely. Whatever your opinion is of 2015 Saddle and Sirloin inductee Dave Nichols, there is one thing to be agreed upon: He is quite the character.
A state panel has awarded $1 million in tax incentives to a Denison, Iowa meat company based on its plans for a $21.7 million expansion that would create nearly 200 new jobs.
Effective today, the company will permanently cease beef operations at its plant in Denison, Iowa, to better align its overall production capacity with current cattle supplies.
A prominent Iowa businessman was found guilty Monday of falsifying documents as part of a scheme to export beef to Malaysia and Indonesia that didn't meet those countries' strict slaughter standards.
A new grazing education and networking program intended for young and beginning graziers will be offered this summer and fall by the Iowa Beef Center at Iowa State University.
Dave Nichols of Bridgewater, Iowa, has been selected as the 2015 inductee into the Saddle and Sirloin Portrait Gallery, largely considered the highest honor in the livestock industry.
The founders of a beef company who were major donors to Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad's campaign were among the business leaders who raised concerns about a state official the governor later tried to force out, according to court documents released to The Associated Press on Wednesday.
Three Omaha residents are suspected of raiding cattle under the cover of night from farm pens in western Iowa and northeast Nebraska, authorities said.
A manager who was fired from a halal beef supplier charged with deceiving Muslim customers has been cooperating with prosecutors under a plea deal that may keep him out of prison, court records show.
A former manager at an Iowa-based halal food supplier is expected to plead guilty as part of a federal criminal investigation into the company's exporting and marketing practices, according to court documents filed Thursday.
A three-year study by Iowa State University on cattle performance at a confinement owned by Board of Regents President Bruce Rastetter will be beneficial to all beef producers, Rastetter and the researchers say.
A two-day bus trip to various locations in Nebraska in early September will offer beginning and young Iowa beef producers unique networking and educational opportunities.