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At the Farm Progress Show in Boone, there's a new soy-based asphalt floor in the Varied Industries Tent. The soy asphalt provides another use for soybeans and recycles road that would otherwise go to landfills.
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The owner of a pumpkin patch on a nearly century-old farm and a dairy farm bed and breakfast owner share the kinds of clients they draw into the country lifestyle. Later, a developer shares how he imagines colorful home exteriors could revitalize Cedar Rapids neighborhoods.
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The Iowa governor's national potential. The real carbon cost of corn. And new music for the weekend.
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From Iowa to Oklahoma to Kansas, universities are working more closely with agribusiness in search of ways to pay for projects where tax dollars have become more scarce. Critics worry that agriculture schools might focus more on industry than the public interest.
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TIAA-CREF invests heavily in farmland, so it paid a university to research it.
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Revisit a conversation about how a story of international agricultural competition began in an Iowa cornfield.
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Ben Kieffer speaks with specialists and pork producers regarding the state of California's Proposition 12 law that goes into affect on January 1. Then Iowan Shawn Vodenik shares his experiences from his deployment in the Middle East as part of our Leaving Afghanistan series.
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While Iowa's small-scale hog farmers need meat processing services, they are increasingly finding it hard to get access to slaughterhouses. USDA wants to build "resiliency" in the sector, but will it work?
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Let’s go back to some news you may remember from several years ago. In 2011, two ethnic Chinese men were seen digging up seeds in a cornfield here in…
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Farmers harvesting derecho-damaged corn are seeing vast differences in yield.