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Iowa farmers are reporting “widespread, significant damage” to homes, outbuildings and grain bins after storms tore through the state Tuesday, Iowa Agriculture Secretary Mike Naig said Wednesday.
Overall, Iowa has 86,911 farms, 3,744 fewer in 2022 that 20 years earlier, the data show. That’s despite the census' finding that Iowa added about 800 farms in the five years from 2017 to 2022.
Focusing narrowly on SAF means vulnerability to things we can't control; we can choose more diverse and stable markets, writes Brian Frye.
Iowa Select Farms is a pork production operation headquartered in Iowa Falls, the largest in Iowa, and the fourth largest in the United States. [1] It grew in the 1970s, was officially founded in 1992 and as of 2023 produced more than 5 million pigs on 800 CAFOs in 50 Iowa counties.
Iowa Farmer Today was launched September 8, 1984, [1] at a time when the tremors of the farm crisis were being felt throughout the Midwest. Publisher Steve DeWitt held discussions for several months with the Cedar Rapids Gazette for the need for a publication focused entirely on the issues facing Iowa's farmers. The complicated business of ...
The farm was originally 600 acres (240 ha) and grew to be 1,300 acres (530 ha). [2] The portion of the farm in this historic district has been reduced to 350 acres (140 ha). It includes the original brick farmhouse and barn. Martin Flynn bought the land in 1867. Flynn was a livestock judge, cattle breeder, businessman, and railroad contractor.
A local family farm was recently recognized with a prestigious honor. Sandwiched between new housing developments is Colony Acres Family Farm, 250 acres of urban farmland run by Dean and Katie Colony.
The Jacobson Farm is located southeast of Decorah, Iowa, United States. It was owned and operated by the Jacobson family for 127 years. It was owned and operated by the Jacobson family for 127 years. One generation overlapped the next, which led to a gradual evolution of changes instead of sudden changes. [ 2 ]