Why Iowa Widow Still Believes in Pesticides: Jolene Riessen
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...
Dave Price
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Pork Leader Pat McGonegle: Pork Sausage Plant is a Win for Producers
JBS USA, a Colorado-based food company, announced last week that it plans to build a $135 million dollar pork sausage production plant in...
Brooke Bouma Kohlsdorf
1 hour ago3 min read
Farmland Values: Tariffs Will Not Be the Only Factor
An ever-changing, unpredictable trade war, jittering financial markets, and recession fears have many people wondering what it will mean...
Dave Price
1 hour ago2 min read
New Survey: Farmers Feel Better About the Future, But Manufacturing Suffering
Farmer optimism reached the highest level in four years as they assess current conditions, future trade prospects, and their own bottom...
Dave Price
1 hour ago2 min read
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Pennsylvania Governor Sues Over USDA Cuts
Mifflin County, Pennsylvania Farmers have been hurriedly looking for alternative sources of income ever since the Trump administration...
Dave Price
1 hour ago1 min read
Pork Leader Pat McGonegle: Pork Sausage Plant is a Win for Producers
JBS USA, a Colorado-based food company, announced last week that it plans to build a $135 million dollar pork sausage production plant in...
Brooke Bouma Kohlsdorf
1 hour ago3 min read
Farmland Values: Tariffs Will Not Be the Only Factor
An ever-changing, unpredictable trade war, jittering financial markets, and recession fears have many people wondering what it will mean...
Dave Price
1 hour ago2 min read
New Survey: Farmers Feel Better About the Future, But Manufacturing Suffering
Farmer optimism reached the highest level in four years as they assess current conditions, future trade prospects, and their own bottom...
Dave Price
1 hour ago2 min read
Why Iowa Widow Still Believes in Pesticides: Jolene Riessen
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...
Dave Price
2 hours ago3 min read
Kent Smith: Tariffs, Weather, and Bumps in the Road for Farmland Values
Tariff news changes week to week and even day to day, leaving a lot of people in agriculture feeling uncertain about the future. But Kent...
Brooke Bouma Kohlsdorf
May 303 min read
Iowa Cash Rental Rates Drop for First Time in 6 Years
The average cash rental rate for Iowa farmland decreased for the first time since 2019, according to the 2025 Cash Rental Rates for Iowa...
Brooke Bouma Kohlsdorf
May 303 min read
New Pork Sausage Plant Underway for Iowa Town That Lost Pork Processing Facility
One of the world’s largest food companies is working on a new priority for an Iowa town. JBS USA -- based in Greeley, Colorado – plans to...
Dave Price
May 302 min read
Kyle Bass Explains Why He is Burning Part of His Ranch in Texas
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...
Dave Price
May 302 min read
A Winemaker’s Challenge: How to Get Young Consumers to Take a Sip with Connor McMahon
A challenge for his industry is an opportunity for Connor McMahon. That is why this California transplant from rural Iowa gets out on the...
Dave Price
May 303 min read
Farmland Trends: DreamDirt’s Jason Smith Watches for the ‘Iowa Effect’
Sales volume is up a little. Prices are, too. But higher quality farmland may be the surprise: farmland values have dropped from what...
Brooke Bouma Kohlsdorf
May 234 min read
MAHA Report Could Affect American Producers
There were 69 pages in a new report titled, “Making Our Children Healthy Again,” that could impact –either with policy or persuasion –...
Dave Price
May 233 min read
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DISCUSSIONS WITH INDUSTRY THOUGHT LEADERS
Why Iowa Widow Still Believes in Pesticides: Jolene Riessen
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...
2 hours ago3 min read
A Winemaker’s Challenge: How to Get Young Consumers to Take a Sip with Connor McMahon
A challenge for his industry is an opportunity for Connor McMahon. That is why this California transplant from rural Iowa gets out on the...
May 303 min read
Why Boa Safra Ag’s Tyler Bruch Sees the World as an Opportunity, Not a Threat
In the early 2000s, corn prices were hovering around $1.80 a bushel. It was a bleak economic reality that pushed many American farmers,...
May 233 min read
What Higher Tariffs Could Do to a Missouri Farmer
Most Americans aren’t farmers. Only about 2% of adults in the United States are farmers or ranchers. Most Americans don’t understand how...
May 164 min read
Agricultural Entrepreneur Chad Tentinger: Higher Tariffs May Lift Cattle Farmers
Tariff skeptics are plentiful these days. Chad Tentinger is not one of them. Tentinger is a lifelong cattle farmer from northwest Iowa...
May 93 min read
California Farmland Loses Billions in Value: Scott Bozzo
California’s farmland values have been falling, much like Scott Bozzo, the state’s American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers 2025 farm manager of the year, expected. A rising number of bankruptcies, fortunately, have not sent those values into a free fall. But the state has still lost an estimated $17 billion in farmland value over the past year, Bozzo estimates.
May 23 min read
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