According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s census data, Iowa has lost nearly 10,000 farms, marking a 10.1 percent ...

Despite the farm's significance to me ... it was not the public institutions but Wall Street. Wealth in rural and urban Iowa is being extracted to powerful financial centers.

Trump's USDA is cutting $11 million in support, leaving small farmers supplying local foods facing financial losses and an ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is working to restore rural prosperity through deregulation, balanced trade deals ...

Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig will present the Wergin Good Farm Neighbor Award to the Dan and Jan Keitzer family of Des Moines County on Friday, ...

Aplington is a typical small Iowa farm town. It sits on the banks of Beaver Creek, an old granger railroad line survives intact, and it has a nicely kept downtown like most upper Midwestern bergs.

A grant from the USDA Rural Development helps them market and sell meat directly to consumers. It did that for Batchelder Family Farms. Brad and Jenna Batchelder, with help from their four kids ...

Since last fall, Iowa farm-to-table growers had been gearing ... and U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollin’s vow to revive rural America. Corn, soybean, pork, beef and other commodity ...