This is the sixth year this program will be offered in the state of Iowa. To date, 1,800 farmers have enrolled nearly one million acres of Iowa farmland in the program. “The benefits of cover crops are very evident here in Iowa,” said Kelsey Willardson, policy associate for the Cen...
Iowa Crop Production Estimates Available for 2025 Growing Season New Resource Supports Iwa Families of Children who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing Tuesday, January 14 We're Hiring! Find a Summer Job in Your Favorite Iowa State Park or Forest ...
Iowa Crop Production Estimates Available for 2025 Growing Season New Resource Supports Iwa Families of Children who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing Tuesday, January 14 We're Hiring! Find a Summer Job in Your Favorite Iowa State Park or Forest ...
Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship’s Annual Corn Crop Survey Friday, January 10 Iowa Rural Businesses Awarded More Than $275,000 in State Grants Iowa Department of Education Announces $3.4 Million in New Registered Apprenticeship Grants Thursday, January 9 State of Iowa gets Final ...
Iowa - Settlers, Immigrants, Agriculture: Native Americans were living in what is now the state of Iowa for thousands of years before European explorers arrived. After Native Americans were forced out of Iowa by Euro-Americans in the 1830s and ’40s, onl
Some farmers, however, viewed the use of crop insurance as locking farmers into the input-intensive industrial treadmill at the expense of diversity on the land. As one farmer lamented: The state of Iowa just shows you how important crop insurance is. There is not any diversity[…]Why can...
Even with fewer acres, Iowa farmers are still producing the most corn in the nation this year, harvesting an estimated 2.4 billion bushels. The state with the nation’s second-largest corn crop is Illinois at 2.2 billion bushels. Iowa soybean growers are producing 521.9 million bushels this yea...
Other factors negatively affecting Iowa's environment include the extensive use of older coal-fired power plants,[81] fertilizer and pesticide runoff from crop production,[82] and diminishment of the Jordan Aquifer.[83] Iowa has a humid continental climate throughout the state (Köppen climate cl...
A focus of research since the 1970's has been to develop alternative genetic approaches to emasculating plants for the purpose of hybrid seed production. This effort, in part, reflects a desire among farmers to maintain some level of genetic heterogeneity for any given crop. One approach (Marc...
The rise in importance of this crop has been the direct result of the realization that sweetclover fills a most important role in building and maintaining our soils—making possible large yields of corn, soybeans and other crops.年份: 1945 ...