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Buying 300 acres" ― around the average size of an Iowa farm ― "would cost millions of dollars.” At the same time, the number of Iowa farms with 2,000 or more acres spiked 77% from 2002 to ...
For Iowa farmers, glyphosate is more than a chemical — it’s an indispensable tool. ... Farming without glyphosate: A house without a hammer ... This weed killer enables efficient, cost ...
The United States Department of Agriculture has distributed up to $12 billion in financial aid to agricultural producers most affected by China's retaliatory tariffs. The USDA's aid came in the form of direct cash payments to producers of corn, cotton, soybeans, sorghum, wheat, dairy, and certain meat products. [18]
The US is the world's largest producer of corn. [8] According to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the average U.S. yield for corn was 177 bushels per acre, up 3.3 percent over 2020 and a record high, with 16 states posting state records in output, and Iowa reporting a record of 205 bushels of corn per acre.
Cost paramount among consumer values. Joseph Balagtas is a Purdue University professor of agriculture economics and the director of the Center for Food Demand Analysis and Sustainability, which ...
Practical Farmers of Iowa was founded in 1985, a time when farmers were under great economic pressure. During that time, Iowa agriculture was in a threefold crisis: Evidence of the negative ecological consequences of current farming practices was mounting; the collapse of commodity prices called into question the economic sustainability of agriculture; and the demise of thousands of farms was ...
The Development of American Agriculture: A Historical Analysis (1998) Conkin, Paul. A Revolution Down on the Farm: The Transformation of American Agriculture since 1929 (2008) Gardner, Bruce L. (2002). American Agriculture in the Twentieth Century: How It Flourished and What It Cost. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-00748-4. Hurt, R. Douglas.
After graduating from college in 2015, he came back to the farm with the goal of expanding the regenerative agriculture methods his family began in 1983, when they implemented no-till.