NEWTON — Sometimes racing is better when it's corny. For the second straight year, John Deere planted a seven-acre corn drawing spelling out "I-O-W-A C-O-R-N" in the hills behind the backstretch at ...

GEORGE, IOWA — Wind storms in Iowa and South Dakota on July 28 damage to communities and farms. “I was grinding feed that evening, and just before dark got done with chores and went in the house and ...

Just ahead of the 2025 growing season, many in the crop protection industry expected tar spot to be the primary disease concern in corn. Instead, southern rust emerged as the ...

Director of Technology and Sustainability Andrea Vanderhoff stands in front of QORE's separations building. For Qore, a new facility in Eddyville, the next frontier for sustainable fashion is growing ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (Iowa Capital Dispatch) - Warm, dry conditions across the state for most of the week gave Iowa farmers plenty of time in the fields to harvest corn and soybeans. According to the ...

Iowa farmers' corn, soybean harvest in 2025 set new records, despite derecho, disease and near-record rainfall, USDA says.

A fungus that attacks corn has spread to more than 40 Iowa counties. Meaghan Anderson, an extension field agronomist with Iowa State University, says southern rust creates reddish-orange patches on ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (IOWA CAPITAL DISPATCH) - Most farmers in Iowa are finished with corn and soybean harvest or have just a handful of acres left in the field, according to average harvest rates. Exact ...

Harvest season is underway in parts of Iowa a little early this year, in part due to the dry weather and a disease that hit corn crops. Field agronomist Angie Rieck Hinz, with the ISU Extension, says ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (IOWA CAPITAL DISPATCH) - The corn and soybean harvest is complete in Iowa, according to the final U.S. Department of Agriculture crop report. Producers, meanwhile, remain concerned ...

Two words sum up the concerns Pro Farmer Crop Tour scouts expressed about the corn and soybean crops they evaluated on Thursday in Minnesota and northeast Iowa: disease pressure. Corn crops infected ...