Iowa farmers are seeing a drop in their income. Economists say one of the last indicators of a failing farm economy is land ...

As mortgage rates climb to 20-year highs, near 8%, current high-interest rates are eating away at the housing market. This year is currently on pace to see the fewest home sales since 2008. However, ...

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources would be forbidden from bidding on land at auction under a bill in the Iowa Legislature that faces opposition from conservation groups. Senate File 2324 would ...

A bill moving forward in the Iowa Statehouse limits how the Iowa Department of Natural Resources can purchase land to expand or create public lands.Iowa has 35.7 million acres of land, but only 3% is ...

The value of good Iowa farmland continued to rise in the first quarter of the year and scored double-digit gains in every area of the state year over year, according to a report from the Federal ...

Not to sound like a broken record, but we have another record for farmland sales. In Sioux County, Iowa, 73.19 acres of high-quality farmland sold for $30,000 per acre during an auction on Nov. 11.

DES MOINES — A bill that would limit the authority of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources to purchase land for public use was shelved on Wednesday ahead of a key legislative deadline. The House ...

Story by Katie Peikes. Video by Lucius Pham. At a recent farmland auction in Jesup, Iowa, a couple dozen farmers and landowners drank coffee, ate cookies and chatted before filing into rows of chairs ...

LE MARS, Iowa -- A farm in Plymouth County sold for $25,000 an acre on Friday, a price more than twice as high as the average in the county. Bruce R. Brock, whose Brock Auction Company conducted the ...

After a month without confirmation of an avian flu outbreak in Iowa, the state lifted an order Thursday that prevented live bird exhibitions or gatherings and kept live birds from being sold at ...

Higher corn and soybean prices and improved profits have helped drive Iowa farmland values up 21% this year, the second-largest increase in the nation, a new U.S. Department of Agriculture report ...

The land, between Remsen and Marcus, Iowa, went up for auction Monday. Bidding took 15 or 20 minutes, auctioneer Bruce R. Brock said. Three bidders pushed the price to $25,000, then two bidders ...