DES MOINES, Iowa, Sept. 12 -- Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig issued the following news on Sept. 11, 2023: Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig commented today on the Iowa Crop Progress and Condition Report released by the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service. The report is released weekly April through November. Additionally, the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship provides a weather summary each week during this time. "Although areas of Iowa received some   more

DES MOINES, Iowa, Sept. 12 -- Gov. Kim Reynolds, R-Iowa, issued the following news release on Sept. 11, 2023: Today, Governor Kim Reynolds signed a proclamation relating to the weight limits and transportation of grain, fertilizer, and manure. The proclamation is effective immediately and continues through October 11, 2023. The proclamation allows vehicles transporting corn, soybeans, hay, straw, silage, stover, fertilizer (dry, liquid, and gas), and manure (dry and liquid) to be overweight (n  more

DECORAH, Iowa, Sept. 12 -- Luther College issued the following news: The Luther College Writers Festival returns to campus this month, featuring the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Ross Gay as the keynote speaker. In addition to Gay, the festival will feature a broad coalition of 18 writers publishing in fiction, nonfiction and poetry. The festival begins Friday, Sept. 22, and ends Saturday, Sept. 23. Gay - a poet and essayist who has won the National Book Critics Circle aw  more

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa, Sept. 12 (TNSres) -- The University of Northern Iowa issued the following news release: The University of Northern Iowa welcomes campus and community to "The Challenges of Teaching for Democracy in Polarized Times," a lecture by Diana Hess, dean of the School of Education at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Hess is the principal investigator for The Discussion Project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Wisconsin Center for Education Research. As dean of the UW-Madison   more