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 ...

U.S. ethanol production had a week-to-week increase. The U.S. Energy Information Administration says production averaged ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Jimmy Emmons was named assistant chief of the Natural Resources Conservation Service. Caleb Crosswhite joined USDA as deputy ...

Farm groups are largely in the dark about what will be included in an upcoming report on chronic diseases among children, but ...

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

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