DES MOINES, Iowa, Aug. 26 -- The Iowa Department of Natural Resources issued the following news release: * * * 2025 teal season shortens, opening day is Sept * The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has reduced the length of the special September teal season to nine days in 2025. Iowa law requires a nine-day teal season to open on the first Saturday in September, which is Sept. 6. This also ensures two full weekends were available for hunting and matches the migration chronology of blue-winged more PR

DES MOINES, Iowa, Aug. 26 -- The Iowa Department of Natural Resources issued the following news release: * * * 2025 teal season shortens, opening day is Sept. 6 * The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has reduced the length of the special September teal season to nine days in 2025. Iowa law requires a nine-day teal season to open on the first Saturday in September, which is Sept. 6. This also ensures two full weekends were available for hunting and matches the migration chronology of blue-win more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 (TNSFR) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service has designated two agencies to provide official grain inspection and weighing services. Keokuk Grain Inspection Service, Iowa, and Ohio Valley Grain Inspection Inc., Evansville, Indiana, will now serve specific areas under the U.S. Grain Standards Act. The appointments follow a competitive review process that evaluated each applicant's ability to offer these services with precision and reliability.  more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 -- Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, issued the following news release: * * * Capitol Hill Report, 08-26-2025 * Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found HERE. Topics include: Blue Slips, Ethanol for America Act, Farm Bill, Election Integrity, Flag Burning Executive Order and History in Museums. *** Original text here: https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/capitol-hill-report-08-26-2025 more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 -- Rep. Salud Carbajal, D-California, issued the following news release: * * * Carbajal, Fine, Davis, and Nunn Reintroduce Bill to Ban Greyhound Racing * U.S. Representative Salud Carbajal (D-CA-24) led a group of bipartisan House members in the reintroduction of legislation that would ban greyhound racing in the United States and outlaw gambling on the outcome of greyhound races simulcast from other nations. "Greyhound racing is cruel, inhumane, and unpopular with the  more PR

DES MOINES, Iowa, Aug. 26 -- The Iowa Department of Natural Resources issued the following news release: * * * DNR State Forest Nursery seedling orders start Sept. 2 * AMES - The DNR State Forest Nursery is gearing up for fall 2025 and spring 2026 seedling orders. Seedlings can be ordered Sept. 2 - May 15. The bare-root seedlings are packaged in bundles of 25 inside sealed and labeled plastic bags. Tree varieties include 23 species of native hardwoods, eight evergreen species and 15 smal more PR

DES MOINES, Iowa, Aug. 26 -- The Iowa Department of Natural Resources issued the following news release: * * * Federally endangered pallid sturgeon discovered in Iowa's Des Moines River * The Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) announced the first-ever collection of the federally endangered pallid sturgeon from the lower Des Moines River. The discovery of two pallid sturgeon this spring came a week a part during the Iowa DNR's annual spring sturgeon sampling effort. This sampling ha more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 -- Rep. Randy Feenstra, R-Iowa, issued the following news release: * * * Feenstra Leads Legislation to Expand High-Speed Broadband in Rural Iowa * HULL, IOWA - Last week, U.S. Rep. Randy Feenstra (R-Hull) and Rep. Josh Riley (D-NY) introduced the Middle Mile for Rural America Act, which would reauthorize the Middle Mile Broadband Infrastructure program and help connect rural communities to high-speed internet. "Expanding access to high-speed broadband is critical for ec more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 -- Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, issued the following news release: * * * Grassley Announces New State Director and Deputy State Director * BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA - U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today announced he has promoted Matt Rector to State Director and Penny Vacek to Deputy State Director. Rector and Vacek will assume their new roles on September 2. Carol Olson will retire on August 31, after serving as Grassley's State Director since 2018. "I'm very gratef more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 -- Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, issued the following news release: * * * Grassley Welcomes Resolution for 10 FBI Whistleblowers Following Years of Retaliation * BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA - Ten Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) whistleblowers have secured compensation agreements with the FBI after months of negotiations mediated by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa). The whistleblowers, including Garret O'Boyle and Stephen Friend, were subjected more PR

DES MOINES, Iowa, Aug. 26 -- The Iowa Department of Natural Resources issued the following news release: * * * Iowa's mourning dove season opens Sept. 1 * Iowa's mourning dove season begins Sept. 1, and with the mild weather in the forecast and a later teal season, state wildlife experts are predicting a busy opening day. "Anytime the opening day falls on a holiday weekend, we see higher participation, and with the weather forecast and teal not opening until Sept. 6, we expect a lot of hun more PR

DES MOINES, Iowa, Aug. 26 -- The Iowa Department of Natural Resources issued the following news release: * * * Iowa's rabbit, squirrel season opens Aug. 30 * The good news for Iowa's cottontail rabbit hunters is that Iowa's rabbit population is the highest in more than a decade, with the vast majority of Iowa considered to have good to excellent populations. The better news for hunters is Iowa's cottontail rabbit season begins Aug. 30 statewide. "It should be a really good year for rabbit  more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 -- The Internal Revenue Service issued the following revenue ruling (No. 2025-16) on Aug. 25, 2025, entitled "Section 2032A.--Valuation of Certain Farm, Etc., Real Property". * * * This revenue ruling contains a list of the average annual effective interest rates on new loans under the Farm Credit System. This revenue ruling also contains a list of the states within each Farm Credit System Bank Territory. Under Sec. 2032A(e)(7)(A)(ii) of the Internal Revenue Code, rates on more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 -- Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, R-Iowa, issued the following news release: * * * Miller-Meeks Joins Lee County Town Hall * FORT MADISON, IA - U.S. Representative Mariannette Miller-Meeks (IA-01) joined Americans for Prosperity for a town hall in Lee County, where she answered questions and heard directly from constituents on the issues that matter most to them. "I'm always grateful for the opportunity to hear directly from Iowans, answer their questions, and provide u more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 -- Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, R-Iowa, issued the following news release: * * * Miller-Meeks Meets with Lee County Law Enforcement and EMS Leaders * LEE COUNTY, IA - U.S. Representative Mariannette Miller-Meeks (IA-01) met with law enforcement officers and emergency medical service (EMS) leaders in Lee County to discuss how to better support first responders who keep Iowa communities safe. The conversation focused on recruitment and retention challenges, funding for  more PR

DES MOINES, Iowa, Aug. 26 -- The Iowa Department of Natural Resources issued the following news release: * * * Natural backwater wetland, Klum Lake should be on birders, duck hunters radar this fall * Ringed by trees and away from the busy roads in eastern Louisa County, Klum Lake has undergone a significant makeover over the past decade or so. The 250-acre natural floodplain lake - historically connected to the Mississippi River by Muscatine Slough - had been filled with eight-foot-tall cat more PR