DES MOINES, Iowa (Iowa Capital Dispatch) - A survey of the commercial horticulture food crops industry in Iowa showed direct specialty crop sales of more than $79 million in 2022 and even higher ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. The Iowa Farm Bureau’s latest food and farm index found that among concerns of the high cost of ...

Despite the weakening agricultural economy, Iowa farmland values were mostly unchanged this year, inching less than 1% higher to an average of $11,549 per acre, Iowa State University reports. A ...

The Iowa Nutrient Reduction Strategy’s goal for non-point sources, including agriculture, is a 41% reduction in nitrogen loss and a 29% reduction in phosphorus loss. Aerial Support provided by ...

Horticulure professor and chair Ajay Nair plants bell peppers at the Alliant Energy Solar Farm at Iowa State University in June 2024. Photo by Christopher Gannon/Iowa State University. AMES, Iowa – ...

The latest survey of supply managers in Iowa and eight other Midwestern states shows the economy sagging under the weight of retaliatory tariffs, as the region’s manufacturing sector sheds jobs for ...

Farmers in Iowa and across the Midwest are facing extreme financial distress due to three years of falling profits. Iowa recorded the second-most farm bankruptcies in the nation during the first half ...

Access to farmland likely will become even more difficult in the future as fewer and fewer people own more and more of Iowa farmland. The Mormon church and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates are among ...

GEORGE, IOWA — Wind storms in Iowa and South Dakota on July 28 damage to communities and farms. “I was grinding feed that evening, and just before dark got done with chores and went in the house and ...

People watch as farm owner TD Holub backs his tractor onto a plow during a Practical Farmers of Iowa field day at Garden Oasis Farm in Coggon, Iowa on Sunday, June 30, 2024. Holuv demonstrated several ...