Beneath the endless Iowan horizon of corn and soybeans lies a struggle for survival. Generations of family farmers, who once ...

Farmers in the heartland are restoring swaths of the prairie with government help. The aim is to reduce nutrient runoff from ...

Continuing to grow excessive quantities of corn and soybeans in Iowa also seems to defy a most basic economic principle, namely that taking some of the world’s most fertile and expensive land ...

Sep. 26—REGIONAL — The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship recognized 277 Iowa farm families for having newly designated Century Farms in 2024. The ceremonies were conducted in ...

Farm policy is tilted in favor of agribusiness over farmers; we need to fix that policy problem as much as CAFO problems, ...

Decades of data show nitrate levels in rivers often drop during dry years and spike when rain returns. Experts say more ...

26—REGIONAL — The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship recognized 277 Iowa farm families for having newly designated Century Farms in 2024. The ceremonies were conducted in mid ...

Iowa agriculture officials say a majority of the quarantine zones set up around poultry farms infected with bird flu are being lifted. When bird flu was confirmed on a farm, a six-mile zone was ...

Factory farms in Iowa produce 109 billion pounds of waste each year, according to a new report from Food and Water Watch about concentrated livestock operations in the U.S. That’s 25 times ...

A Press Democrat analysis of campaign contributions to Measure J, the “Prohibition on Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations” ...

Big volumes of water can release more nitrate ... one with this cover crop and one without – during a recent Iowa Learning Farms webinar. He said both sites had a corn and soybean rotation ...