USDA’s second check of planting progress for the season shows Iowa farmers started planting corn this past week, but that number could make a massive jump by next week, as some farmers are seeing a ...

This week, planting is expected to surge as drier weather begins to set up across the Midwest. USDA now says corn planting is 40% completed nationally. That’s 1% ahead of the 5-year average. States ...

Like the start of a big NASCAR race or the beginning of a Championship game, many farmers in southern Minnesota and Iowa began full-scale field work during the week of April 13-19. Farm operators in ...

After a long winter, Iowans are itching to get back in their gardens to welcome spring. Temperatures are slowly on the increase within the first few weeks of April with daytime temperatures hitting ...

FREMONT COUNTY, Iowa (Iowa Capital Dispatch) - Iowa farmers made headway planting corn, soybeans and oats early last week, but were slowed by storms that caused destruction in southwest Iowa, ...

A monarch butterfly forages on an ironweed flower in the native lawn of Karen Rawson in the front yard of her home in southeast Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Monday, September 9, 2024. Rawson began replacing ...

Minnesota Soil and Water Conservation Districts (SWCD) are now promoting their spring tree orders. Minnesota farmers, ...