Wahls rolls out new farm policy platform while Steen airs second statewide ad in Iowa’s open 2026 governor’s race.

The Iowa Senate passed the state’s farm act. The Iowa Farm Act would expand Iowa’s agritourism industry and give targeted tax relief to farmers. The bill introduced by Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig intends to strengthen rural communities and provide more support to farmers.

Iowa Republicans cheered passage of the Farm Bill through the U.S. House after fighting to secure a future vote on the year-round sale of E15.

Farm bankruptcies are increasing across the Midwest, with Iowa seeing 18 farm bankruptcies in 2025, according to data from the American Farm Bureau Federation.

Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig today thanked the Iowa Senate for its unanimous passage of the Iowa Farm Act, Senate File 2465, by a vote of 47-0. “I appreciate

Despite the weakening agricultural economy, Iowa farmland values were mostly unchanged this year, inching less than 1% higher to an average of $11,549 per acre, Iowa State University reports. A limited supply of farmland on the market, solid returns for ...

Governor Kim Reynolds announced a ‘Farm to Faucet’ water quality funding package in Iowa, which includes $25 million for nitrate removal facilities in central

GRINNELL, Iowa — Two Iowa organizations say they were blindsided in recent weeks when a previously approved U.S. Department of Agriculture grant aimed at helping expand access to farmland was pulled just before funding was set to be delivered. As Iowa ...

In comparison, as I’ve written about for several months, the current farmland market is relatively stable. It’s almost boring. We’ve been operating in a tight, no-margin environment for a couple of years now,

We all know the answer to what will happen to Iowa’s precious farmland. It will wind up in the Gulf of America. During my lifetime all University of Iowa studies agree that 60% of Iowa’s topsoil has eroded and washed down our rivers. No, we are not ...