(Journal stock photo.)

Cover crops are part of disaster recovery

The U.S. Drought Monitor is jointly produced by the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration. (Map courtesy of NDMC.)

Heat was the story of the past week

The U.S. Drought Monitor is jointly produced by the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration. (Map courtesy of NDMC.)

Western High Plains feeling drought’s impact

A farmer pours soybean seed into his planter prior to no-till planting into cereal rye. (Photo courtesy of Jason Johnson/Iowa NRCS)

Cover crop fact sheets explain options available to Iowa farmers

World Food Prize Foundation

Foundation launches youth program survey

Woman shopping for shoes for her son in a department store (Photo: iStock - Juanmonino)

Plan for back-to-school shopping during Iowa sales tax-free weekend

  • By Carol Ehlers │ Iowa State University Extension and Outreach
The U.S. Drought Monitor is jointly produced by the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration. (Map courtesy of NDMC.)

Hotter days ahead for most of the High Plains

A small piglet in the farm. Swine in a stall. Shallow depth of field portrait of young pig in the farm.

Iowa to have swine day July 25