A recent study prepared for the Iowa corn and ethanol industries predicts that without expanded markets, the “best days for ...

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, ...

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 ...

Director of Technology and Sustainability Andrea Vanderhoff stands in front of QORE's separations building. For Qore, a new facility in Eddyville, the next frontier for sustainable fashion is growing ...

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 fungus that attacks corn has spread to more than 40 Iowa counties. Meaghan Anderson, an extension field agronomist with Iowa State University, says southern rust creates reddish-orange patches on ...

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 ...

Iowa farmers' corn, soybean harvest in 2025 set new records, despite derecho, disease and near-record rainfall, USDA says.

Just ahead of the 2025 growing season, many in the crop protection industry expected tar spot to be the primary disease concern in corn. Instead, southern rust emerged as the ...

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 ...

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 ...