The 2025 Crop Advantage meetings will give producers a solid foundation of current research-based crop production information to help make smart, informed decisions for their farming operation. The …

Agricultural producers of perishable commodities including fruits, vegetables and floriculture can now get funding for controlled atmosphere storage through Farm Storage Facility Loans (FSFL) offered …

(ANKENY, IOWA) – The Iowa Biodiesel Board is celebrating a milestone in the adoption of biodiesel blends, with sales in 2023 reaching 486.5 million gallons, nearly tripling from the 160.8 …

Seasonal fall temperatures and lack of snow make it perfect conditions to work in  your yard or timber areas.  Late fall to winter is a great time to prune trees. Insect and pathogens …

SIOUX CITY, Iowa – Iowa State University Extension and Outreach will host a new  Urban Cow program series  beginning Dec. 12 at the ISU Extension and Outreach Woodbury County office …

    ORANGE CITY, Iowa – The I-29 Moo University and the Northern Plains Forage Association have joined forces to continue the 2024 Forage Webinar Series with a fast-paced evening …

Calls for $20 billion in "emergency" farm program payments won't go away now that the proposal's principal audience, voters, have done their duty. The idea's chief promoters, Congressional …

The American Soybean Association is expressing concern after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency imposed additional restrictions on farmers—a move that seems to have followed adverse …

Thanks to a partnership between the Cherokee Community School District (CCSD) and the Cherokee County Conservation Board (CCCB), a day was spent giving students opportunities to experience the …

Election Day, Nov. 5, will end the costliest, dirtiest American political campaign season in memory and it will likely also mark Opening Day for what could be the costliest, dirtiest post-election …

U.S. fluid milk sales have changed substantially over the past several decades. This graph (Source: Central Marketing Area Federal Milk Market) depicts total fluid milk sales by product from 1975 …

The first application cutoff for Iowa farmers and other private landowners to apply for conservation practices in Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 through USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) …

Let's pause to consider the-above headline. First, it's a quote; I didn't write it. That's important because the third rail of today's ag journalism–the deadly, high voltage topic that can …

Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig commented on the Iowa Crop Progress and Condition Report released by the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service. The report is released weekly April …

Strong agriculture leaders are critical to the future of the soybean industry, and the American Soybean Association wants to provide a student interested in agriculture with a college scholarship as …

If you buy nearly two billion pounds of beef a year–an on-the-hoof equivalent of seven million cattle–you’d think you’d get the best deal ever from your suppliers. You are, …

Pundits are fond of saying that elections are about the economy, and people’s relationship to it. “It’s the economy, stupid” and all that. It may be true - but there’s …

Each year the Northwest district and Iowa FFA officers plan and facilitate Greenhand Fire Up Conferences for FFA members in the Northwest district. The Clay County Fairgrounds welcomed FFA chapters …

A harvest of farm business management courses is available for women in Iowa. Through women in agriculture programs, the Iowa State University Extension and Outreach farm management team strives …

Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig recently announced the establishment of the Farm Deer Advisory Council within the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship and appointed seven Iowa …