USDA is estimating near record corn and soybean crops in Iowa this year, but early yields results indicate that might be difficult to achieve, at least for corn. At the Reints farm in northeast Iowa, ...

What’s usually a rare sight this harvest season — a rain delay — briefly halted work for Ward and Bryant Hunter. An inch of rain Sunday night was enough to pause the combines, but the father-son duo ...

An unusually severe outbreak of southern rust has cut into corn yields across parts of Iowa this year, according to Iowa State University plant pathologist Alison Robertson. “I’ve been in Iowa for 21 ...

MAXWELL, Iowa — For the past several weeks, a corn disease called southern rust has been quickly spreading across Iowa. According to the Crop Protection Network, it is already in 40 Iowa counties as ...

OTTUMWA — In Derrick Hoodjer's belief, the farmers did it right. Some planted corn early, some others on their own timetable. All were hopeful. "The biggest thing is, and it's just my opinion a little ...

High levels of fungal disease are threatening corn crops across Iowa and the rest of the Midwest. The main diseases, southern rust and tar spot, arrived earlier and spread due to wet conditions. These ...