News, Insights & Interviews Archive

For some communities, they lay out a choice: grow food or produce solar energy. But why not both? The first year of an Iowa State...

Since a Wyoming farm boy who expected a longer career as a lighting technician for film and television never anticipated that he would...

Young people are drying up the wine industry. Young people are refining the wine industry. There are arguments in both ways. But a new...

A much-anticipated veto by Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds, a Republican, brought a range of reactions because of the potential significance...

A sprawling, 8,488-acre Oklahoma property owned by the same family since the 1940s was sold in early May. The Hilseweck Ranch, located in...

Diesel engine not running right? Need help combining? Looking for help in how to master the sales industry? Rob Taylor can help with all...

Jolene Riessen lost her husband of 32 years, David, to cancer in 2019, so she understands the concerns about the state’s rising rate of...

How many billionaires do you know walking around their property in jeans and boots…setting things on fire? That is what Kyle Bass, one of...

Once again, the Environmental Protection Agency has issued a waiver to extend the nationwide sales of E15 gasoline, the blended fuel with...

The company that has already invested millions of dollars to construct a five-state, $9 billion carbon sequestration pipeline vows to try...

A Nebraska CRP property sold for $1.8M is being converted to cropland, raising questions about whether CRP rental rates are too low to keep land in conservation.

Change can be difficult. Talking about it might be even tougher sometimes. But when the subject comes to the future viability of your...

Energy production could be about to go…well, nuclear. Wind and solar energy have had the attention of producers looking for alternatives...

When a 76-acre farm outside the northwest Iowa town of Hull was auctioned off this past December, the sale price of $26,750 per acre came as

Dry conditions have terrorized the Los Angeles area, scorching nearly 50,000 acres, damaging nearly 15,000 structures, and resulting in...

A non-profit is bringing opportunities to communities through the support that it gives to beginning farmers. That means that a berry...

Congress’ acknowledgement of how difficult extreme weather has been for agricultural producers can provide some assistance in the...

One of the regional leaders at a Federal Reserve Bank thinks that another federal funds rate reduction could happen in December, but he...

“Catastrophic” is the word that Florida Commissioner of Agriculture Wilton Simpson used to describe the damage that Hurricane Milton...

Producers received guidance for one federal tax credit but still wait for help on another. Two researchers look at the tough financial...