What’s usually a rare sight this harvest season — a rain delay — briefly halted work for Ward and Bryant Hunter. An inch of rain Sunday night was enough to pause the combines, but the father-son duo ...

Production costs for farmers have increased nearly 65% since 2021, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation.

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, ...

While the USDA’s September outlook predicts this year’s corn crop could set a record in Iowa and across the Midwest, economist Chad Hart at the Iowa State University Extension says the boost is ...

An unusually severe outbreak of southern rust has cut into corn yields across parts of Iowa this year, according to Iowa State University plant pathologist Alison Robertson. “I’ve been in Iowa for 21 ...