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

The findings come from a new analysis of 12 years of field trials and seed usage data across 10 Midwestern corn-growing states, including Iowa. The study, published in Science, shows rootworms are ...

Cameron Sorgenfrey stands among tall and short corn stalks in one of his fields, Sept. 16, 2024, in Wyoming, Iowa. Short corn is more resistant to blowing over in strong winds, and it enables ...

DES MOINES – Dry conditions helped farmers as days suitable for fieldwork increased to 5.9 for the week ending Sunday, according to the Iowa Crop Progress and Condition Report released by the USDA ...

Aaron Gassmann, professor of plant pathology, entomology and microbiology The findings come from a new analysis of 12 years of field trials and seed usage data across 10 Midwestern corn-growing states ...

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

The 1985 "Swampbuster" law — which has protected millions of acres of U.S. wetlands from being cleared and plowed — is being ...

Penn State researchers discover flavonoids make corn earworm larvae sick. New herbicides and a bioinsecticide show promise. AI takes on SCN.

A bill threading its way through the state legislature would make it almost impossible to sue pesticide companies for health ...

The findings come from a new analysis of 12 years of field trials and seed usage data across 10 Midwestern corn-growing states, including Iowa. The study, published in Science, shows rootworms are ...

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins made her first official visit to Iowa Monday, visiting several farms and ...