RSSHF 512 – Confinement Feeding Operations FLOOR ACTION: HF 512 would allow a producer that wants to continue using a building that has been approved for a higher animal capacity to take a “time-out” without ceasing all production and then be able to bring the full building usage back on at a designated point [...]
Read the full story >>HF 152 – Drainage districts HF 607 – Agricultural Development Authority to Iowa Finance Authority FLOOR ACTION: HF 152 allows changes to the management of drainage districts. In current law, drainage districts are under the jurisdiction of County Supervisors (or multiple boards). Over the years, the approximately 3,000 drainage jurisdictions have evolved and about [...]
Read the full story >>HF 152 – Drainage districts HF 312 — Manure application certification program electronic option HF 457 – DNR Ag land leases for beginning farmer preference HF 599 – Beginning Farmer Tax Credits HF 607 — Agricultural Development Authority to Iowa Finance Authority FLOOR & COMMITTEE ACTION: HF 312 requires the Department of Natural Resources [...]
Read the full story >>SF 310 – Corn Promotion Board check-off FLOOR ACTION: SF 310 makes changes to Iowa Corn Promotion Board in three ways: (1) Reduces size of the Iowa Corn Promotion Board to consist of one director elected from each crop district in the state. The Corn Promotion Board will also include a three-person executive committee [...]
Read the full story >>SF 247 – Hybrid Bengal cats COMMITTEE ACTION: SF 247 exempts the F-4 hybrid Bengal and Savannah cats from the dangerous wild animal list in Iowa. [3/18: 46-2 (Bowman, Petersen “no”; Chelgren, Sinclair absent)]
Read the full story >>SF 316 – Farm tenancy under 40 acres HF 458 – IDALS Departmental bill FLOOR ACTION: SF 316 would eliminate the exemption to the September 1 written notice to be given to a person that leases farmland of 40 acres or less of the desire to terminate the lease the next crop year. The [...]
Read the full story >>SF 316 – Farm tenancy under 40 acres SF 310 – Corn Promotion Board check-off SF 235 – ADA motor fuel pumps SSB 1180 – CAFOs SSB 1208 – Soil and Water Appropriation SSB 1234 – Feed in tariffs COMMITTEE ACTION: SF 316 would eliminate the exemption to the September 1 written notice to [...]
Read the full story >>SSB 1115 – Hybrid Bengal cats SSB 1143 – IDALS departmental bill COMMITTEE ACTION: SSB 1115 exempts the F-4 hybrid Bengal from the dangerous wild animal list in Iowa. An amendment was adopted in committee to include Savannah cats. [2/20: short form (Bowman “no”)] SSB 1143 is the annual IDALS departmental bill. This session’s [...]
Read the full story >>SF 2172 – Swine confinement feeding management SF 2269 – Wastewater disposal SF 2311 – IDALS Dept. bill HF 589 – Offenses to animal operations and livestock HF 2092 – Year around farmers market and expand products HF 2292 – Fish farms SF 2172 changes how animal units are calculated to determine if a confinement [...]
Read the full story >>SF 2311 – IDALS departmental bill HF 2292 – Fish farms FLOOR ACTION: HF 2292 provides that fish farms can be regulated under federal Pollutant Discharge Elimination System rules until the Iowa Department of Natural Resources creates state rules. This bill was amended to reflect the correct code citation. The drafter used the wrong code [...]
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