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04/19/2026

You might be ready to send your cows to pasture, but are your pastures ready for cows❓🐮🌱

On this week's episode of Iowa Beef Collective, Dr. Shelby Gruss, ISU Extension Forage Specialist, joins us with a checklist for better managing grass and hay given our current price environment. Topics of discussion include:
🌱 Turn-out do's and don'ts
💲 Fertilizer inputs
🌿 W**d control
🚜 Hay making decisions
🍀 Research on grazing-friendly alfalfa varieties

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04/19/2026

U.S. Meat Export Federation reports beef variety meat exports continued to grow in February, with value jumping 40% year over year.

04/19/2026

U.S. and Mexico report New World screwworm case in a calf in a Mexican state bordering Texas, marking the northernmost active detection.

04/19/2026

03/23/2026

Jones Act is paused to help contain fertilizer prices: how the World War I action has returned. Also a look at the JBS strike in Colorado and its impact on rural America. https://www.iowapbs.org/shows/mtom/market-feature/13963/jones-act-hold-more-pain-pump-and-elevator-beef-prices-may-go

03/09/2026

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02/18/2026

These guys are ready to move out tomorrow. More space, more roughage, and a booster shot......

02/18/2026

Getting so close now......

02/11/2026

Waxworms in the upper Midwest are in short supply this winter thanks to efforts to help reduce rootworm damage on the corn crop.
An Iowa based company uses the bait to produce nematodes in a process that eventually goes into soil to attack insect and soil insect pests.
The one time application has doubters, but as Keegan Shields, the company’s CEO told us recently, the proof of reduction in root worm is visible in the field and grain hopper with increased yields.
Our previous MtoM conversation is this week’s Cover Story.

https://www.iowapbs.org/shows/mtom/market-feature/clip/13709/nematode-makes-inroads-corn-fields

02/03/2026

The Dakota Farm Show announced that beginning in 2027, the event would be hosted at the Seaboard Triumph Foods Expo Center in Sioux City.
Read more >> https://www.ktiv.com/2026/02/03/dakota-farm-show-is-moving-sioux-city/