Iowa Public Radio

Land values hold steady in Iowa after a year of uncertainty for farmers

For more than 60 years, Iowa State University has sponsored an annual land survey. This year shows a small increase that lags behind inflation.
The Gazette

Who owns Iowa farmland?

Farmland in Clinton County on May 11. The nearest fields make up some of the land sold at auction in DeWitt earlier the same day. (Nick Rohlman/The Gazette) Buy Photo DEWITT — Fewer than half the ...
Des Moines Register

Iowa tightens foreign-owned land law, but misses farmers' main concern: access to land

Iowa Rep. Mike Sexton says no foreign residents, companies or groups should own any of Iowa’s rich farmland. “If they do, they’re breaking the law,” says Sexton, a northwest Iowa Republican. The Iowa ...
The Journal

New report unpacks foreign interest and land leases in Iowa farmland

As foreign interest in U.S. farmland has grown in recent years, new research-backed insights are available in the July edition of Ag Decision Maker for landowners to stay informed on this evolving ...
The Gazette

Most foreign investment in Iowa farmland is for wind leases

Jay Carson stands last Monday on farm land he and his family farm in rural Center Point. Carson rented the land for more than 20 years before a German family that owned the land sold it to him in the ...
Iowa Public Radio

Iowa Supreme Court hears oral arguments in land survey case against Summit’s carbon pipeline

CO2 pipeline opponents rally outside the Iowa State Capitol to show support for Kent Kasischke, a landowner challenging Summit Carbon Solutions' access to survey his property without his consent. The ...
Des Moines Register

Iowa couple locked in legal battle to stop company from surveying their farm for carbon capture pipeline

Vicki Hulse says she's fighting Navigator CO2 Ventures' plan to build a carbon capture pipeline across her northwest Iowa farm because her husband, Bill, a Vietnam veteran in poor health, no longer ...