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Is your family farm eligible?

For those area families who have a long, proud history of farming the land, it is not too early to think about the 2024 Century Farm and Heritage Farm awards. Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig is encouraging eligible farm owners to apply for the 2024 Century and Heritage Farm Program. ...

Enjoy the Progress Agriculture section

This edition of Farm New includes the annual Progress agriculture section. It provides a comprehensive look at how a wide array of developments in our region are shaping the agricultural tomorrow. While every issue of this newspaper is filled with articles, features and advertisements that ...

Make plans for upcoming shows

Two big agricultural events featuring informative speakers and exhibits of all kinds of farming technology are coming soon. The Iowa Pork Congress will be held Jan. 24-25. The Iowa Ag Expo will be held Jan. 30-Feb. 1. Both will be at the Iowa Events Center in Des Moines. And both will ...

Looking back on 2023

As we get close to saying goodbye to 2023, it is a perfect time to reflect on a year that brought challenges to both producers and the agri-business community. As is often the case, weather and trade seemed to make headlines regularly in Farm News. This issue of Farm News includes a 2023 Year ...

Enjoy a festive (and safe) holiday season

It is that time of year when holiday parties pile up one after the other over the course of a couple of weeks — and many of them are held after dark and feature alcoholic beverages. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, there are an average of 45 fatalities ...

Barns symbolize Iowa’s farm heritage

Iowa’s rural landscape has changed drastically as farming has become less labor intensive in the last century. There was a time when the countryside was filled with the assorted buildings needed in the farm economy. Today’s larger farms have far fewer structures. If there is one ...

Farm News Ag Show is nearing

The harvest and fall tillage are definitely nearing an end across much of Iowa. As farmers wrap things up on the 2023 growing season, it is not too early for them to start thinking about next year’s growing season. Farm News is ready to help them do just that with the upcoming Ag Show. CJ ...

Questions motivation

To the editor, The broad undocumented assertions in Fritz Groszkruger’s letter, “Working for a cleaner planet” (Oct. 27) make it difficult to know where to begin to find truth, reality or his motivation. But it might be worth trying. For example, he states without providing any ...