Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Corn silks begin to show on a corn field in early July. (Photo by Cami Koons/Iowa Capital Dispatch) Corn and soybean crops ...

He’s hopeful a new congressional energy council and President Donald Trump’s endorsement of year-round E15 are enough to push some kind of ethanol bill ...

Costly farm expenses, low prices and uncertainty with international trade will impact corn and soybean farmers across the ...

A field in Polk County is cultivated prior to planting corn. Aaron Lehman said his organic farming operation runs on a different calendar than conventional row crop farmers. (Photo contributed by ...

Iowa’s economy is built on agriculture. What happens at the farm gate ripples through our entire state. When farmers are doing well, Main Street businesses thrive, equipment dealers stay busy, ...

New federal pesticide decisions and evolving endangered species requirements are expected to bring more field-specific ...

A cloud of dust forms due to dry conditions Sept. 18, 2023, as Dave Ludden pulls a wagon to collect the corn for feed at his farm in Monticello. (Savannah Blake/The Gazette) Buy Photo Overall corn and ...

USDA’s second check of planting progress for the season shows Iowa farmers started planting corn this past week, but that number could make a massive jump by next week, as some farmers are seeing a ...

A farmer harvests soybeans in western Iowa in early October 2023. (Photo by Jared Strong/Iowa Capital Dispatch) Crop conditions for corn, soybeans and pasture are far better than conditions from this ...

Throughout the summer, floods and storms destroyed farms throughout Iowa. Many of the crop acres were completely washed out by the flooding, especially in the northwest portion of the state. On fields ...

A Rantizo DJI Agras MG-1P drone sprayer finishes a demonstration flight outside of Iowa City in August 2020. Drones have become much more adept at spraying fungicides on crops in recent years. One ...

The fourth and final day of the 32 nd Pro Farmer Crop Tour wrapped up on Thursday, Aug. 22 with numbers from Minnesota and eastern Iowa samples combined for full Iowa results. Scouts sampled the Iowa ...