A bill would bar the Iowa Department of Natural Resources from buying land at auction, with some exceptions. But its future is unclear.

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources would be forbidden from bidding on land at auction under a bill in the Iowa Legislature that faces opposition from conservation groups. Senate File 2324 would ...

Paint Creek flows through the Yellow River State Forest in Allamakee County. A bill that would limit the authority of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources to purchase land for public use was ...

A bill moving forward in the Iowa Statehouse limits how the Iowa Department of Natural Resources can purchase land to expand or create public lands.Iowa has 35.7 million acres of land, but only 3% is ...

Auctioneer Randy Stabe leads the largest land auction of his career Sept. 17 - 18 at the Hinton Community Center in northwest Iowa. Iowa farmers are seeing a drop in their income. Economists say one ...

One of the interesting things about demand for farmland is just how stable it seems to be. Iowa State University data tells ...

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 ...

Farmland values are on a historic run. After a record sale of $22,600 per acre in August, October came with a new record price as a piece of farmland in Johnson County, Iowa, brought a record $26,000 ...

Access to farmland likely will become even more difficult in the future as fewer and fewer people own more and more of Iowa farmland. The Mormon church and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates are among ...