Fewer people own more Iowa farmland. But Iowans are finding solutions — from "patient money" to finding non-family members to ...

In the 1850s, Iowa had 23.3 million acres of prairies, according to the Government Land Office's original public land survey of Iowa. That accounted for 65 percent of the land cover.

The Future Land Use Map outlines where and how the city should grow in the coming decades. City officials have spent the last year gathering feedback and input from residents online and at in ...

Capriccioso said that previous versions of the future land use map classified the entirety of the North End and downtown as “downtown residential” land use, stretching from Mesquite Street in ...

Iowa has tightened restrictions on foreign land buyers, which own 1.6% of the state's acreage. Lawmakers missed a bigger threat, farmers say.