Wednesday was a difficult day for The American Independent News Network, which is the larger entity that operates The Iowa Independent. Our chief executive and founder announced two of our sister sites would close and their content would be moved to The American Independent.
A recently introduced bill could have far-reaching impact on the U.S. sugar industry, including American Crystal Sugar, a farmer-owned cooperative that locked out 1,300 Midwest workers on Aug. 1.
The chairman for Herman Cain’s Iowa effort says the campaign “relied more on the word of farmers than Washington regulators” in deciding to run an ad containing claims the Environmental Protection Agency says are false.
The Iowa Senate will remain under the control of a slim 26-25 Democratic majority when it reconvenes in January 2012.
A man accused of setting hogs loose and running them down with a vehicle has turned himself in to the Story County Sheriff's Office.Jonathan Lee Wright, 21, has been charged with criminal mischief, trespassing and 41 counts of animal abuse after an investigation led to his arrest Wednesday.
Iowa Independent reported last week that more than 500 hogs were released from the Don Struthers farm near Collins, many of them maliciously run over with a motor vehicle. Initially, 15 hogs died or were injured as a result of the attack, but that number grew to more than 30 other hogs that were later found to have been injured and that had to be euthanized.
Wright is a neighbor to the Struthers farm, where the attack occurred.
Eric Finch, who is a caretaker of the hogs at the farm, told Iowa Independent that he knew of no neighbors or anyone in the community who had any gripe with the Struthers farm operation.
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