For those area families that have a long, proud history of farming the land, it is not too early to think about the 2025 Century Farm and Heritage Farm awards. Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig ...
25 Southeast Iowa Century or Heritage Farms, owned by the same families for at least 100 or 150 years, were honored at the Iowa State Fair on Wednesday. The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land ...
This story appears in the July 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. Six miles outside the town of Decorah, Iowa, an 890-acre stretch of rolling fields and woods called Heritage Farm is ...
Sixth-generation farmer Todd Western III believes his family is the only Black family in Iowa to own a Heritage Farm, a term used for farms operating longer than 150 years. Western III and nine other ...
In Iowa, the powerful Farm Bureau and other ag industry groups ... But many of those threaten crop output, reduce field acreage or require changes in farming practices. One taxpayer-funded tool ...