High levels of fungal disease are threatening corn crops across Iowa and the rest of the Midwest. The main diseases, southern rust and tar spot, arrived earlier and spread due to wet conditions. These ...

This spring — among the green of typical weeds that include waterhemp, giant ragweed and velvetleaf — you may find a new ...

A handful of Iowa farmers fired up their combines this week to start harvesting corn, according to the latest crop progress and condition report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.More than a ...

No-till, cover crops, and cattle—those are the three pillars that have helped Smith Family Farms achieve profitability and environmental sustainability. Where the borders of Iowa, Wisconsin, and ...

After years of drought, spring this year brought relief to Iowa in the form of regular rainfall. However, for some farmers, the precipitation — which fell heavy at times — combined with high ...

With billions spent, is Iowa's water improving? Farm leaders say yes, but more work is needed. Others want changes — from ...

The equivalent of 70 nurse tanks of nitrogen per day and one truckload of phosphorous per hour is flowing through the confluence of the Des Moines and the Raccoon rivers in central Iowa. This ...

Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig will present the Wergin Good Farm Neighbor Award to the Eickman family of Carroll County on Friday, March 27 from 11 ...

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, no American family played a bigger role in American agriculture than the Wallaces of Iowa.