President Donald Trump has announced a new $12 billion aid package that's coming to farmers."Especially here lately we've had some tough challenges, you know, w

“It’s a Band-Aid on a much larger wound, which is chronically unstable markets for American farmers,” Tommy Hexter with the Iowa Food System Coalition, said. Hexter says, even with the payment, farmers are continuing to struggle as it’s difficult to plan ahead with the ever-changing international trade policy.

Farmers want a level playing field, and this package provides critical support while broader trade discussions continue.

The 2025 Iowa Farm and Rural Life Poll confirmed that input and land costs are eroding profit margins on corn and soybean more quickly than in the past.

As farmers face historic headwinds and market hardships, calls to the national Farm Aid hotline and the Iowa Concern hotline are increasing.

Iowa’s top leaders are reminding residents that much of America’s Thanksgiving dinner likely started in the state.

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, corn yields have been running above last year, but they ...

The standing corn snow fence program provides compensation for farmers leaving anywhere from six to 24 rows of corn in their field to act as a natural snow fenc