The Iowa Farmers Union taps Matt Russell, former state chief of the USDA Farm Service Agency, as interim director, replacing ...

Prior to that, he spent 12 years on staff at the Drake University Agricultural Law Center. Russell has been an active member of Iowa Farmers Union for more than 20 years.

As they prepare to make outlays for spring planting, Iowa farmers wonder when and if they'll get promised federal payments for conservation work.

President Donald Trump’s freeze on federal spending has stuck hundreds of farmers in Iowa and across the Midwest ... who farms in Polk County. “And having all this hanging over their head ...

The federal government has historically discriminated against Black farmers. The recent funding halt from the Trump ...

The optimal window to market old crop grain is getting smaller. Iowa Farm Bureau Farmer Education Program Manager Zach ...

Iowa farmers will also be impacted. Last year, USAID purchased $2 billion in U.S.-grown crops, including corn and soybeans grown in Iowa. In an interview with KCCI TV, Aaron Lehmann, president of ...

As leader of USDA, Rollins will oversee farming and nutrition programs food safety, agricultural ... advance homegrown Iowa biofuel, and elevate the voices of Iowa farmers.” ...

Some of that funding has been frozen by the Trump Administration, including $10 million for Iowa farmers who did conservation work on agland that was financed, in part, by USDA programs.