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...Iowa legislation that includes a partial ban on cultivated meat is supported by the state’s pork, corn and soyabean industries....
...Even though California accounts for 13 per cent of America’s pork consumption, few large-scale pig farms are located there, according to their brief....
...Eric Couchman, a 50-year-old farmer ordering an “Iowa twinkie” — a jalapeño pepper wrapped in bacon and filled with pulled pork, corn and cream cheese, said he did not believe Trump could win a general election...
...Ethan WuIt’s really deflation of pork prices. Pork prices are down 28 per cent. If you get rid of the pork, then actually inflation’s positive right now....
...The report said that the increase in extreme heat above 125F would be concentrated in the central US, stretching from northern Texas to states such as Indiana, Illinois and Iowa that are far from the cooling...
...We travel through Iowa, the biggest corn-producing state in the US. And for the most part this is how farming looks in the US - endless rows of corn and soy....
...After we’d toured the Yungang caves, chef Wang Hongwu invited me to his restaurant, the Northwest Oat Pasta Village, to try some local specialities....
...More than $900m of the CFAP funding is set to go to farmers in Iowa, the leading pork and corn producing state, while Wisconsin, a major centre for milk and cheese, is on course to receive just over $500m...
...plant in Iowa....
...Then on Wednesday, Tyson halted production at its largest pork plant in Waterloo, Iowa, citing worker absences, Covid-19 cases and community concerns....
...On Monday, the governor and senators of Iowa, where Tyson has idled work at three pork plants, urged the White House to use every authority available to get production moving....
...A Tyson meat packing plant in Columbus Junction, Iowa, has also shut its doors after nearly 200 employees tested positive for coronavirus....
...Tyson last week closed two pork plants in Logansport, Indiana, and in Waterloo, Iowa, that together can slaughter almost 35,000 pigs a day, according to estimates by Steve Meyer of Kerns & Associates....
...Several big pork and beef processing plants across the US have been forced to temporarily or indefinitely close following outbreaks of coronavirus....
...Tyson’s largest pork plant, in Waterloo, Iowa, has capacity to slaughter almost 20,000 pigs a day....
...Next month, the first presidential primary contests in Iowa will unofficially kick off the 2020 US election campaign....
...An 2018 analysis by Iowa State University published before the swine fever outbreak concluded that China could import $8.9bn more US pork once tariffs were gone....
...Tyson Foods shuttered a pork processing plant in Waterloo, Iowa, this week after many Covid-19 cases among its workforce, and labour leaders have protested at shortages of personal protective equipment in...
...Agricultural economists say almost a third of US pork processing capacity and 14 per cent of beef capacity is now halted....
...Plenty of troops, few battle-hardened commanders Liz Truss, the ebullient UK trade secretary famously enthusiastic for British penetration of Chinese pork markets, made quite a claim in the House of Commons...
...Go for the pork belly with apple and wasabi. Mains from Rbs490 (£6)....
...North-west Iowa is “the number one pork-producing district in all the United States of America,” Steve King, its US congressman, boasted to constituents last week....
...The National Pork Producers Council has even cancelled its annual world pork expo in the state of Iowa to ensure that none of its 20,000 visitors brings in the virus from abroad....
...Meanwhile, still more bathetically, the Republican congressman Devin Nunes tried to sue over a parody Twitter account (@devincow) pretending to be a cow living on his farm in Iowa, which went exactly as...
...The National Pork Producers Council cancelled its annual World Pork Expo this month in the farm state of Iowa to ensure none of its 20,000 visitors brought the virus from abroad....
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