To examine evolving farmer perspectives on soil compaction, the 2025 Farm Poll survey included questions previously used in the 2013 Farm Poll, allowing researchers to compare responses over time.

A 2025 Iowa Farm and Rural Life Poll survey of 945 farmers shows increasing concern about soil compaction from heavier farm equipment. The post Iowa Farm Poll finds rising concern over soil ...

The Iowa Farm Bureau Federation has extended the application deadline to March 31 for its Rural Veterinarian Loan Repayment Incentive Program, created to help address ongoing shortages of ...

Art Cullen is editor and co-owner of the Storm Lake Times Pilot in rural northwest Iowa. Born and raised in Storm Lake, Iowa, he won a Pulitzer Prize in 2017 for his coverage of the agricultural ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (KCRG) - Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig announced Tuesday the Iowa Farm Act, a legislative plan to support Iowa farmers and rural communities. “The Iowa Farm Act is about ...

Iowa Republicans’ tax and economic policies have hollowed out Iowa’s small communities and rural landscape. Their big business approach to every problem has resulted in everything getting bigger: ...

Although many people who live in rural areas and small towns leave for big cities, a man in western Iowa bucked the trend, returning home — house and all — to take over his family's farm. The saying ...

A monthly survey of rural bank chief executive officers in Iowa and nine other Midwest states found some improvement in economic conditions but deep concern about future farm loan defaults. The ...

Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig announced Tuesday the Iowa Farm Act, a legislative plan to support Iowa farmers and rural communities.Key Provisions of the Iowa Farm Act: Expands retired ...

Editor’s Note: This interview first appeared in Path Finders, an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder. Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a rural thinker, creator, or doer. Like what you ...