Local agriculture specialists are anticipating a difficult decade for farmers across Iowa who rely on corn sales.  A Corn Impact Study released Jan. 21 and prepared by the Iowa Renewable Fuels ...

Soybeans are harvested from a western Iowa field. (Photo by Jared Strong/Iowa Capital Dispatch) Warm, dry conditions across the state for most of the week gave Iowa farmers plenty of time in the ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (IOWA CAPITAL DISPATCH) - The corn and soybean harvest is complete in Iowa, according to the final U.S. Department of Agriculture crop report. Producers, meanwhile, remain concerned ...

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 ...

There were fewer local workers detasseling seed corn in Iowa in 2025 than in previous years as the number of temporary migrant laborers with H-2A visas doing the jobs increased, according to data ...

USDA is estimating near record corn and soybean crops in Iowa this year, but early yields results indicate that might be difficult to achieve, at least for corn. At the Reints farm in northeast Iowa, ...

Two words sum up the concerns Pro Farmer Crop Tour scouts expressed about the corn and soybean crops they evaluated on Thursday in Minnesota and northeast Iowa: disease pressure. Corn crops infected ...

The Explore On-Farm Nitrogen Rate Trials tool allows users to view anonymized data from the hundreds of trials in the INI database. Data can be sorted by location and crop rotation, with other filters ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (IOWA CAPITAL DISPATCH) - Warm, dry conditions across the state for most of the week gave Iowa farmers plenty of time in the fields to harvest corn and soybeans. According to the ...