Iowa farmers had just over two days suitable for field work last week due to rainy conditions, but are ahead of normal ...

For crops, the upper 4 inches of the soil should reach at least 50 degrees with a warming forecast trend, according to Iowa State University. Iowa soil temperatures as of April 10, 2025 ...

Applying that data to a machine-learning generated map of global farmland, Huang’s team built a model that estimated that planting cover crops would reduce soil carbon erosion by an average of 25% ...

Practical Farmers of Iowa is looking for landowners who want ... habitat for native species while at the same time reducing soil erosion. "All of these practices are going to have multiple ...