As 2025 winds down, northwest Iowa dairy farms are taking stock of a year that brought both optimism and new pressures. Sioux County dairy producer Christina Zuiderveen says harvest conditions ...

Four of Maassen Dairy's 1,800 milk cows. The farm sells milk to Associated Milk Producers Inc. (AMPI) in Sanborn for cheese production. One of the state’s top dairy producers in northwest Iowa is ...

One of the largest dairy farms in Iowa — with a herd of about 10,000 in Sioux County — has cattle that are infected with avian flu, the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship reported ...

Travis Ties serves many roles at Holdgrafer Dairy, including the head of feed operations for the 400-cow dairy located near Bellevue, Iowa. He's been named the winner of the 2025 MILK Business ...

Technician Blake Iske looks out over farmland adjacent to the Marshall Ridge Renewable Energy Center in State Center on Sept. 18. The facility’s three anaerobic manure digesters extract methane from ...

State Ag Secretary Mike Naig says Iowa officials are taking a different approach compared to other states when it comes to bird flu testing. When a poultry flock has been hit by the virus, the testing ...

AMES, Iowa – Matt McGarry grew up on a farm near DeWitt in eastern Iowa. His family raised hogs, cattle, chicken and even peacocks – everything but the animal that fascinated him the most: dairy cows.

A northeast Iowa dairy farm modified its manure control system for an expansion of its operation without state approval and did not install a barrier to contain potential leaks, according to the Iowa ...

When the four Hansen brothers came back to the small family dairy farm in Hudson, Iowa, which had operated since 1864, things needed to expand. So, in 2004, the family built its own on-site creamery ...

ORANGE CITY, Iowa — Bird flu has been infecting dairy cows in Northwest Iowa for the past two weeks, and experts say the situation is evolving so rapidly that even they strain to keep up-to-the-minute ...

The Dec. 1 sale in Sioux County not only sets a farmer-buyer record for Iowa, but according to Jim Rothermich, it highlights fierce demand for premium ground as lower-quality farms see more no sales.