Recently, USDA announced that $12 billion will be made available for the “Farmer Bridge Assistance” (FBA) program, which will ...

To till or not to till? Some might say running the tiller in the garden is the best part of it all. Other gardens never see a ...

By early December, my part of west-central Iowa transformed overnight from the dull grays and browns of late November to a ...

He arrived in 2014, specifically to be “a bearer of bad news, a besuited grim reaper” but nobody blinked because life and ...

The world barrels ahead, and living life keeps us moving. I often long to go back to the days when our children were little ...

James Hepp received his Iowa Farm Environmental Leader Award during a ceremony at the 2025 Iowa State Fair. Pictured (from ...

Could soybeans be used as a paper-mache product?” It’s just another Google search in the day of an ag writer slash parent of ...

Most Midwest farm operators finalize their farm cash flow plans for the upcoming year during the months of January and ...

Way back in the mid-80s, my grandma used to make sugar cookies that I’ve always wanted to replicate. They were thin, but not too crispy, covered in rainbow sprinkles, and had what I remember as a ...

Ginger Breen Claussen grew up planning to take over her family’s pharmacy. Things changed. She went to pharmacy school and ...

Darin Johnson, president of the Minnesota Soybean Growers Association is no stranger to business relationships stretching ...

Doug Bos is Assistant Director of Rock County Soil and Water Conservation District, where he has worked for 27 years. When he talks about cover crops, he is not only talking of programs, he is ...