Iowa

Nothing is constant but change, and USDA’s latest acreage reports served as a not-so-subtle reminder of that. Here are the states that saw the biggest “crop swaps” this year.

Adopted in May 2012, the ordinance is intended to promote agribusiness in Hancock County while preserving the quality and character of the county’s neighboring uses, the ordinance reads.

Indiana and other Midwestern corn and soybean farmers are being accused of threatening the survival of monarch butterflies.

Just when it looked like the trade-war pain would ease, flooding across the Midwest has done billions of dollars in damage.

A northern Iowa farmer has been given six months in prison for selling corn that was pledged as collateral on federal Farm Service Agency loans of more than $196,000.

There’s little argument that Indiana corn farmers have been in a bit of a slump. The Hoosier State saw corn yields clock in at 150 bu. per acre in 2015, with the three-year average slightly above that at 155 bu. per acre. But is the state capable of higher yields in 2016?

A refinery designed to make ethanol from cornstalks, leaves and cobs — not the grain itself — opened Friday in central Iowa, the culmination of a $225 million construction project and millions more invested in its engineering and design.

A seed production company says about two dozen of its corn detasselers were sprayed with fungicide from a crop duster working on a neighboring western Indiana field.

The Iowa Department of Transportation is paying dozens of Iowa farmers to leave rows of corn that can create snow barriers along highways.

In March, Wayne County firefighters rescued a man trapped in a grain bin on a farm south of Centerville, thanks in part to Purdue Extension training.