Iowa planting makes big progress with a dry weather week

Iowa farmers took advantage of dry weather this past week to get a lot of planting done. The U.S.D.A.  report shows soybean planting more than double last week, reaching 27%, compared to 11% the previous week. Soybean planting is now 9% behind what had been planted at this time in 2025. The amount of corn […]

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