CLARION --- Gary Woodley walks across the field, mud clinging to his boots with every step.

EMMETSBURG --- Jim Stillman turns to watch his brother pull the planter across a field just outside of this Palo Alto County town.

EARLING --- Once conditions were right, Denny Kenkel says he didn't waste much time getting into the field.

PERCIVAL --- David Lueth started planting corn April 19. Nearly two weeks later, he's still planting corn.

ALBIA --- Paul Belzer has seen farmers being busy this spring.

Gave him back to the dirt from which he came. Earlier his family and neighbors walk by, Looking at memories of a simple man's life. A table of photos, toy tractors and cards, Telling the story of life on the

DUNKERTON --- Northeast Iowa farmers hit by the May 25 tornado that killed seven people are in salvage mode.

It's one thing to hear Northeast Iowa farmer Mark Mueller talk about the saturated conditions that are idling planters in much of the state when fields should be bustling.

RHODES --- Chris Buck knows landscaping isn't for wimps. The wheelbarrow full of rocks nearby attests to that. But, landscaping doesn't have to be difficult.

While strong pork prices have surprised some, higher productions costs could dominate discussion at the 20th annual World Pork Expo scheduled for June 5-7 at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines.

WASHINGTON, Iowa --- For young producers, some might see Kurt and Heather Hora as old school.

While most of the attention on the new farm bill was based on President Bush's veto and Congress' eventual override, the item of most interest to Iowa farmers in the long run is likely to be the new revenue program

Iowa Gov. Chet Culver said Tuesday he is deploying 165 members of the Iowa National Guard to help out in the wake of the May 25 fatal tornado that ripped through parts of Northeast Iowa, killing seven and destroying more

Farmscape Article 2861 May 30, 2008 By the end of June, about 150 grade five, six, seven and eight students from three Prince Albert elementary schools will have had a hands-on taste of agriculture. The "Real Dirt on Farming" tours,

WEST BRANCH --- John Black called planting progress and conditions "barely fit."

DAYTON --- A.J. Blair is in a good mood today. "I think we're behind where we normally would be, but we're doing better than most people this spring," Blair says.

WAPELLO — Nestled between two flooded rivers, the Iowa and Mississippi, conditions were ideal for Warren Kemper to start planting on May 1.