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Grocery inflation has cooled in Iowa, but that doesn't mean prices have returned to normal. Here's what's getting more expensive, what's getting cheaper, and why your grocery bill still hurts.

Iowa is adding 18 hydrostations with $500,000 in federal funding, expanding real-time monitoring of soil moisture, groundwater and water conditions for farmers, researchers and emergency managers.

Growing up on a farm taught me that ownership meant fixing what you owned. As tractors become more computerized, Iowa's Right to Repair debate asks whether that lesson still applies.

Learn the best ways to pick a sweet, juicy watermelon with proven tips, a few old farmer tricks, and lessons learned from years working in a grocery store produce department.

The USDA is bringing its new National Food Safety Center to Urbandale, Iowa, shifting key food safety operations closer to the heart of farm country.

USDA confirms pseudorabies in a single Iowa commercial swine site, marking first detection in the state in over 20 years and prompting movement restrictions, testing, and ongoing investigation into the source and containment efforts.

A closer look at the numbers is raising fresh questions about cancer in rural Iowa.

Despite a difficult agricultural economy, the value of farmland across Iowa continues to climb.

From planting tips to weather predictions, its wisdom will be missed.

It’s a major blow to the local economy as another Eastern Iowa plant prepares to close.