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

Alfalfa

Foraging for good value, but alfalfa losing ground doing so

(USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.)

USDA-APHIS issues CVB notice 

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

Sunflowers (Photo courtesy of Amberlyn Brown.)

Old crop sunflowers had a price rally

Close up of hands of a woman farmer. Farmer is holding a laptop on wheat field. Smart farming and digital agriculture. (Photo: iStock - Scharfsinn86)

5 ways to get on board with farm data

Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza has been hindering commercial poultry flocks for the past few years, and in March 2025, it was discovered in a number of dairy herds. (USDA Multimedia by Lance Cheung.)

Webinar discusses what happens when animal diseases cross boundaries 

Frozen turkeys at a grocery story (Photo: USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service)

High Plains region recipient of USDA meat processing grants