Iowa’s state climatologist says recent rains came at the right time. “To bank some soil moisture right now with the heavier ...

Ray Bickel spent over a decade driving a truck through giant corn and soybean fields in Clinton County, Iowa, applying pesticides. He says it was good work, while it lasted. In 2017, he had a heart ...

Iowa State University Extension’s annual survey shows the first statewide decline in cash rental rates for farmland since 2019. Rental rates went up 9% in 2023 and were stable last year. The drop this ...

Iowa farmers have less than 10% of corn acres left to plant, which puts them a whopping 12 days ahead of last year’s pace and ...

Like many of his rural neighbors in northeast Kansas, Jacob Thomas is trying to compensate for deep losses in federal funding ...

The Des Moines Register reports that despite the movie being set in Nebraska, it was actually filmed in three Western Iowa ...

Another week with little or no precipitation and warm temperatures allowed for rapid planting progress in Iowa fields.