AMES, Iowa – Logan McCrea is Iowa State University Extension and Outreach’s newest field agronomist, serving nine counties in south-central Iowa out of the Mahaska County office. A native of Monroe ...

The Gazette will host a series of free, virtual talks about the future of agriculture this week, including advances in drone ...

The organization Practical Farmers of Iowa is helping urban crop growers use beneficial insects to control pests, boost soil ...

Hidden away in Oxford, Iowa, for example, is a treehouse escape from the real world that you'll never, ever want to leave. I ...

The owner of P’Nut, the world’s most famous and tragic squirrel, has opened his heart and home to a new fur baby, he revealed to The Post. Mark Longo said he recently adopted a miniature dachs ...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Lucy Olsen scored 21 points and got her ninth assist by finding Kylie Feuerbach open in the corner for a 3-pointer in the final minute that slammed the door on Iowa's 74-61 ...

Lely North America broke ground Oct. 22 on a new 60 acre campus in Pella, Iowa that will include a new, 100,000 square foot facility to house manufacturing and professional space along with a state-of ...

Bill Huber, president of the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities (SARM), is leading the charge for the reintroduction of strychnine as a tool to control Richardson's ground squirrels in ...

Normally, ground squirrels eat a mostly plant-forward diet ... evolution, and organismal biology at Iowa State University. “As they’re increasing from a low population density, the females that are ...

But it’s not just the birds that love the food. Squirrels will also want to raid the bird feeder and often break them in the process. Bird feeders designed to keep out squirrels either enclose the ...

According to the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities (SARM), landowners have been struggling to keep up with the growing population of Richardson’s ground squirrels (RGS), also commonly ...

You wouldn’t be the first person to ponder this question of squirrel population size. There are between 200 and 300 million squirrels in the world, which will depend on which species you count. The ...