Iowa towns spring to life with vibrant late-summer farmers' markets that are totally worth the drive. These markets offer everything from heirloom tomatoes and sweet corn to artisan treats and live ...

Following a challenging 2025, Iowa farmers enter 2026 facing increased margin pressures, elevated interest costs and ...

When most people think of farm animals, they imagine pigs or cows. They do not picture 8-foot-tall, 300-pound birds with DNA more closely related to dinosaurs than chickens. Among the homemade jam ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — With farmers markets set to begin in dozens of cities across Iowa in the coming weeks, vendors and market managers alike are pulling out all the stops to draw in consumers.

As harvest season ramps up across Iowa, farmers are facing one of the most challenging years in recent memory. With China no longer buying American soybeans, the state’s number one crop is taking a ...

Iowa soybean farmers are harvesting what the Iowa Farm Bureau says could be a record crop this year, with an expected 53 bushels per acre. But Verne Hosek, who lives outside Fairfax, isn’t optimistic ...

Corn is harvested in Shelby County, Iowa, in September. President Donald Trump has promised to send farmers billions of dollars in aid to help offset the loss after tariffs impacted agricultural ...

President Donald Trump listens as Cordt Holub of Dysart, Iowa, speaks during a roundtable on farm subsidies in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Monday in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) Buy ...