On Sept. 30, 2023, the 2018 Farm Bill that President Donald Trump signed into law during his first administration, officially expired, requiring Congress to subsequently pass a one-year extension of ...

It is surrounded by crop fields on the north side of a four-lane highway, an oasis of nature that is uncommon in rural Iowa ... said Lehman, who farms in central Iowa. “It’s going to come ...

The push for one Iowa landowner to farm a designated wetland is likely to affect neighbors downstream. And a legal weight ...

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.

Farmers surveyed in 2022 for Iowa State University’s Farm and Rural Life Poll were more pessimistic than optimistic about the five-year outlook for “families in your community.” Census data ...

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

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.

Farmland values have generally leveled off or seen slight declines after some years of strong increases, reflecting the ...

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 ...