More consumers want to put a face to the food they buy.
- Benjamin Herrold
COLUMBIA, Mo. — Construction progresses on the new University of Missouri Soybean Cyst Nematode Diagnostics Lab.
- Crystal Reed
Editor’s note: This is part of a series featuring winners of the Iowa State Fair Way We Live award for 2026. Iowa Farmer Today is an award sponsor.
- By Tim Kenyon, Iowa Farmer Today
BOONE, Iowa — USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins announced a new project Sept. 1 at the annual Farm Progress Show to upgrade farm information reporting.
- Benjamin Herrold
ROCK PORT, Mo. — On an overcast late-August day, University of Missouri Extension agronomists and specialists talked about crop productivity, technology and ongoing research at the annual MU Graves-Chapple Extension and Education Center field day.
- Tim Kenyon
NASHUA, Iowa — Staff are excited for the upcoming 50th anniversary celebration at the Iowa State University Northeast Research and Demonstration Farm open house 2-7 p.m. Sept. 10.
The Peterson Farm Brothers, Greg, Nathan and Kendal, are fifth-generation farmers working the land in central Kansas. Although many might know them from their popular farming content on YouTube and other social media channels, their day-to-day still revolves around raising beef cattle and gr…
- By Susan Reiser, Tri-State Neighbor Correspondent
Music is big at this year’s Clay County Fair, and site work has the northwest Iowa fairgrounds ready to welcome visitors
- By Crystal Reed, Iowa Farmer Today
Roads and bridges — and the funding to pay for their maintenance — play an important role in getting people, animals and commodities where they need to be.
- Tim Kenyon
This year marks the 70th anniversary since President Dwight Eisenhower signed into law plans for the U.S. interstate system.
- ZoeMartin
Editor’s note: This is part of a series featuring winners of the Iowa State Fair Way We Live award for 2026. Iowa Farmer Today is an award sponsor.
- Tim Kenyon
MONTICELLO, Iowa — About 125 area farmers gathered Aug. 18 to get information on insurance considerations, storage challenges, grazing options and other management strategies following heavy storm damage earlier this month in eastern Iowa.
- Benjamin Herrold
As summer nears its finish, many farmers are making decisions on when to take a last cutting of hay and which pastures to let grow as stockpiled forage for grazing later.
There isn’t a more polarizing topic in the beef industry right now than mandatory Country of Origin Labeling (MCOOL).
- Benjamin Herrold
As another harvest season draws near, billions of bushels of corn and soybeans will be coming out of U.S. fields. Many of those will end up on barges, floating down the major rivers to be delivered to customers.
- Crystal Reed
The aviation sector has committed to achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2050, according to the International Air Transportation Association, with sustainable aviation fuel representing the most impactful solution in the coming decades. It is part of a combination of technological innovat…
- By Donnelle Eller, Des Moines Register
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins defended President Donald Trump’s decision to allow more imported ground beef into the country, saying it will help Americans shrink their grocery bills.
- Benjamin Herrold
Emerging technologies in robotics, as well as improvements to the capabilities of existing equipment such as drones, will push farming to new levels.
- Benjamin Herrold
Farmers are facing higher input costs, including fuel costs. Even within this growing season, farmers have seen significant movement in fuel prices.
- Tim Kenyon
COLFAX, Iowa — Speakers at Becknology Day in central Iowa urged producers to be hyper vigilant to keep their farming operations in the black.
- Crystal Reed
EFFINGHAM, Ill. — Farmers at Beck’s Hybrids Becknology Day in southern Illinois Aug. 7 had the chance to see how crops reacted in a “hot spot” for red crown rot.
- Crystal Reed
EFFINGHAM, Ill. — An Aug. 7 Becknology Day tour aimed to help guide farmers as nitrogen prices rise.
- Tim Kenyon
AMES, Iowa — Iowa State University alumnus and Ames native David Cook has immersed himself in his university presidential duties since starting March 1.
- Crystal Reed
Harvest gets closer with each passing week, and the story of this season remains the same: Massive precipitation events in some areas and too little in others.