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USDA unveils plan to help build small meat processing plants

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DES MOINES, Iowa — The federal government promised Friday to spend $500 million to encourage the construction of smaller meat processing plants located closer...

USDA unveils plan to help build small meat processing plants

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DES MOINES, Iowa — The federal government promised Friday to spend $500 million to encourage the construction of smaller meat processing plants located closer...

Ted Turner to give land to nonprofit but keep paying taxes

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LINCOLN, Neb. — Media mogul and billionaire bison rancher Ted Turner is donating an 80,000-acre ranch he owns in western Nebraska to his own...

Los Angeles County authorities seize $1 billion in marijuana

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LOS ANGELES — Authorities said Wednesday that they seized $1 billion worth of illegal marijuana in the largest eradication effort in Los Angeles County...

Colby would be official Wisconsin cheese under bill

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MADISON, Wis. — In cheese-obsessed Wisconsin, which proudly touts itself as America's Dairyland, the dairy cow is the official domestic animal, milk is the...

New US rules to protect animal farmers expected this week

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OMAHA, Neb. — The Biden administration plans to issue a new rule to protect the rights of farmers who raise cows, chickens and hogs...

US proposes removing Colorado River fish’s endangered status

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DENVER — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Tuesday it plans to propose reclassifying a rare Colorado River Basin fish called the razorback...

Fugitive extradited to Turkey to face Ponzi scheme charges

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ISTANBUL — A Turkish national on the run after allegedly embezzling money from thousands of people in a Ponzi scheme has been extradited to...

US lobster fisheries anxious over upcoming whale protections

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PORTLAND, Maine — The profitable U.S. lobster fishery will soon have to contend with new rules designed to protect an endangered species of whale,...

Des Moines faces extreme measures to find clean water

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DES MOINES, Iowa — In the dim light just after dawn, Bill Blubaugh parks his Des Moines Water Works pickup truck, grabs a dipper...