Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:40 a.m. CDT

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Many farmers are critical of President Donald Trump’s tariffs and the damage done to commodity prices and markets, but say they are appreciative that he has offered to provide cash to help make up their losses. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced Tuesday a $12 billion plan to borrow money from the U.S. Treasury to pay producers of commodities including soybeans, corn and wheat to compensate for losses due to trade disputes.

BROOKLYN, Iowa (AP) — State and federal agents are investigating the disappearance of a 20-year-old University of Iowa student who has been missing for nearly a week in eastern Iowa. KCRG TV reports that Mollie Tibbetts was staying at her boyfriend’s home in Brooklyn last week. A neighbor reported seeing Tibbetts jogging Wednesday evening. She was reported missing Thursday. Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation spokesman Mitch Mortvedt says the FBI is using computer forensics to pinpoint her location.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Donald Kaul, a longtime columnist for the Des Moines Register and a Pulitzer Prize finalist twice over, has died. He was 83. His son, Chris Kaul, tells the Register that his father died Sunday at his home in Washington, D.C., following a long battle with prostate cancer that spread to his skeleton. At his height, Kaul’s “Over the Coffee” column was syndicated in 150 newspapers.

PLEASANT HILL, Iowa (AP) — Iowa natural resources officials are investigating a fungicide spill and subsequent fish kill in a central Iowa creek. The state Department of Natural Resources says an estimated 180 gallons of fungicide spilled Monday when a 250-gallon container fell from a Landus Cooperative truck Monday afternoon at the intersection of state Highways 163 and 316. Some of it reached Camp Creek, where department staff found dead minnows and chubs downstream of the spill site.