The Downtown Farmers’ Market in Des Moines isn’t just a place to buy produce – it’s Iowa’s greatest weekly food festival, social gathering, and cultural showcase all rolled into one gloriously chaotic ...

“It’s a Band-Aid on a much larger wound, which is chronically unstable markets for American farmers,” Tommy Hexter with the ...

The standing corn snow fence program provides compensation for farmers leaving anywhere from six to 24 rows of corn in their ...

Farmers to receive up to $12 billion in one time bridge payments, Trump administration announces Dec. 8, Dave Bergmeier writes.

Iowa Republicans welcome Trump's announcement of a $12 billion package to help farmers hurt by low crop prices and tariff ...

President Donald J. Trump alongside U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent, Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman John Boozman, Ark., Sen. Deb ...

Read how farm organizations and top lawmakers reacted to the $12 billion bridge payment plan announced by the Trump ...

Farmers in the state have struggled during Donald Trump’s trade war since China stopped buying U.S. crops because of tariffs.

USDA announced applications are now open through January 23, 2026, for the $285 million America First Trade Promotion Program (AFTPP), a key component of the Trump Administration’s work to expand ...

That’s the Payment-in-Kind (PIK) program the U.S. Department of Agriculture rolled out in 1983 to idle millions of acres ...

Comparatively high litter rates and low pig death losses suggest South Dakota hog producers have a productivity and animal ...

Miscanthus has a smaller carbon footprint than corn and soybeans, and experts say it has the potential to strengthen U.S. energy independence.