The report shows 18% of the projected corn crop was planted by Sunday. That’s three days ahead of last year and five days ahead of the five-year average. Eleven percent of the expected soybean ...

Corn that farmers deliver this fall is trading close to the $4.25 per bushel average that Iowa farmers will spend to grow it, which doesn't portend well for profits. And soybeans are looking even ...

But in that haze, I can still pick out a few details, specifically songs - the ones that played as we sped to the hospital, as I looked at my daughter at sunrise, as I rocked her to sleep at 2 a.m ...

American Idol took a moment to honor moms across America on Mother's Day (May 11). One special moment came when Louisiana native John Foster took the stage to sing a rendition Brooks & Dunn's 1991 hit ...

The lyrics to Blake Shelton‘s new radio single “Stay Country or Die Tryin'” don’t pull any punches. This isn’t a lifestyle ...

which runs the Iowa plant. The plant’s ethanol also will go into Tide laundry detergent, replacing the corn-based ethanol long used to stabilize the detergent formula and enhance washing ...

Let’s bring this back to soybeans. Corn/soybean rotations are common throughout much of the Midwest. Although nitrogen is rarely applied before soybean plantings, it’s often added before planting corn ...

A commodities broker based in northwest Iowa says there’s not a lot of old crop corn in storage. Shane Holtorf with Logic Ag Marketing tells Brownfield there’s been strong demand regionally with ...

An extension agronomist with Iowa State University says some farmers in the state are shifting to more corn acres this year. Meaghan Anderson tells Brownfield prices are favoring corn over soybeans.

Iowa farmers made headway planting corn, soybeans and oats early last week, but were slowed by storms that caused destruction in southwest Iowa, according to the Iowa crop progress and condition ...