Corn basks in the late afternoon sun as storage bins can be seen at a farm in southwest Cedar Rapids in September 2014. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette) Buy Photo The Gazette offers audio versions of ...

More farmers are trying out conservation tillage and cover crops, but not all of them choose to permanently adopt the ...

A long-awaited scientific report commissioned by Polk County says farm pollution threatens the ability to drink clean water ...

Across the state of Iowa, approximately 2% of planted corn acres are beginning to silk, and 13% of soybean acres are blooming, which is five days ahead of the five-year ...

DES MOINES – Spotty precipitation, heavy in some areas, limited Iowa farmers to 4.3 days suitable for fieldwork during the ...

At this point in the season, crops in Illinois have mostly been planted and, in some cases, replanted depending on how much ...

Little Sioux (Harrison County) reported the week’s high temperature of 101 degrees on June 20, 17 degrees above normal.

U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) was back in the listening area last week as she met with members of the Iowa Corn Growers Association (ICGA) in Sac ...

Rainfall has helped to diminish drought conditions in the upper Midwest, but it's also taken a toll on crops that have been ...

“No-till reduces soil erosion 80-90%,” DeLong said. Water health can be helped by edge-of-the-field practices such as ...

In 1847, the Mormons staying at Winter Quarters (today's Florence neighborhood in Omaha) set up a farm 16 miles north of land ...