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 ...

Farmers in northeast Iowa planted more corn and soybeans last week than in all of the three weeks prior, according to the U.S ...

Corn planting is nearly complete in Iowa. USDA’s latest weekly crop progress report shows 91 percent of intended acres are planted, 12 days faster than last year and four days ahead of the five-year ...

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 ...

While corn is grown all around the world, the United States is the largest producer. Among the states that produce American ...

The 2025 survey of cash rental rates for Iowa farmland shows that rates decreased, on average, by 2.9% in 2025 to $271 per ...

Farmers are well ahead of the five-year state averages for crop planting, according to the latest numbers released Monday by ...

Debate and lawmakers' votes in the Iowa Senate once again revealed a divide among statehouse Republicans over landowner ...

Overall, 58% of planted corn and 42% of planted soybean acres have emerged. More than 80% of soybean acres across the state have been planted. Iowa had an average rainfall of less than a tenth ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Senate advanced a bill that could further complicate a massive carbon-capture pipeline ...

Plant diseases such as red crown rot in soybeans are moving into more parts of the Midwest, and last year, Extension ...