A south-central Iowa farmer says the amount of rain his farm received this week was a pleasant surprise. Steve Kuiper raises corn and soybeans in Marion County. He tells Brownfield some parts of ...

Read more on hail damage in corn in the ISU Publication: IPM 78: Hail on Corn. Soybean field with severe hail damage. (Photo by Gentry Sorenson, Iowa State University.) ...

Crop emergence for corn is ahead of last year and the five-year average, with 10% emerged statewide, and southern regions of the state seeing more than 20% emerged according to the U.S. Department ...

The U.S.D.A. Ag report shows farmers got started on planting, but wet weather and storms slowed up some of the progress. The report shows 18% of the projected corn crop was planted by Sunday. That ...

Iowa soil is very conducive to corn growth and has great water capacity, says Ralph Lents, Iowa Corn Promotion Board president. Editor’s note: This is part of a series on the biggest ...

Editor’s note: This is part of a series on the biggest agricultural commodities in Iowa, Illinois and Missouri. How does Iowa corn stay on top? The ingredients needed are hard work, good ...

The Iowa Corn Growers Association (ICGA) celebrates its 50th anniversary this year as the country’s oldest and largest corn growers’ organization. The ICGA, created from a statewide grassroots ...

Corn harvest in Iowa is four days ahead of last year’s harvest and nearly two weeks ahead of the average harvest schedule, according to the latest Iowa crop progress and condition report. The ...

Crop Watch corn fields in eastern Iowa, western and southeastern Illinois, and South Dakota were harvested last week. These new results dropped the 11-field, average corn yield to 3.32 from 3.41 a ...

Both Iowa locations now expecting record corn yields Strong harvest pace last week for 10 of 11 Crop Watch locations Four bean fields harvested last week, four more due this week NAPERVILLE ...

Corn and soybeans in Iowa are several days behind 2023’s maturation schedule, but are in overall good to excellent condition as harvest begins. Two percent of corn harvested for grain and 1% of ...

BOONE, Iowa — Despite the rain causing some planting delays, the corn across Iowa is looking better than it has in the past four years. “We have two different crops in some respects.