Agriculture

The agriculture economy is recovering from pandemic impacts and the August derecho better than economists expected.

A Continuous Improvement process at a Waterloo John Deere plant has garnered a national award.

Farmers need technology, but the challenges of climate change are greater than what innovation is likely to overcome.

While Iowa's egg farms faced immediate disruptions when restaurants and schools closed in the spring, the turkey sector continued production mostly as usual until August.

It took a while for COVID-19 to hit rural Iowa. Now, the pandemic is hitting the state’s rural communities hard in many ways. As the pandemic drags on and gets worse, so may the strain of living under these unusual circumstances.

Exports are buoying the U.S. pork sector.

A farmer in North Iowa has created a mobile barn that lets him raise four livestock species in pasture sections interspersed with crops.

Iowa's state climatologist says extreme weather events will continue and become even more extreme.

Farmers harvesting derecho-damaged corn are seeing vast differences in yield.

The U.S. Secretary of Agriculture traveled to Iowa to celebrate a new program that awards grants so retailers can sell higher blends of biofuels.