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Iowa Farmer Today is a weekly newspaper, based in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, that covers Iowa for crop and livestock farmers in the Midwest.. 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.
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.
More than 4 million chickens in Iowa will have to be killed after a case of the highly pathogenic bird flu was detected at a large egg farm, the state announced Tuesday. Crews are in the process ...
The 2022 U.S. ag census showed Iowa had lost nearly 586,000 farm acres in the five years since 2017. Over 20 years, Iowa has lost 1.7 million acres of ag land. Land for renewable energy projects ...
The farm insurance business is highly concentrated in Iowa. Three providers ― Farm Bureau Property & Casualty Insurance Co., Nationwide Agribusiness Insurance Co. and State Farm Fire and ...
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 ...
Despite rising interest rates and lower farm income, Iowa farmland values averaged a record $11,835 this year, an Iowa State University survey shows Iowa farmland values climb 3.7% in 2023 ...
The headquarters of the magazine is in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. [1] [4] It is self-published on a small Iowa farm and distributes its issues mainly through direct mailing. Some farm and feed stores such as Tractor Supply also carry the magazine. Rural Heritage is currently edited by Joe Mischka. [1] [5] Previously, the magazine was edited by Gail ...