There’s a cooperative in the Midwest with 55 retail outlets that touch 34 states. The co-op has a different spin on e-commerce, is reimagining its health and wellness program for farmers and is manufacturing and distributing sustainable green fertilizer.

Since January, land values have made modest gains in eastern Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota and Wyoming, but it's a different story in Iowa where the value of cropland has declined 2.4%.

To receive the funds, all of a farmer's ground was required to be insured, including marginal land that might not have been planted with crops but was still considered part of the farm's total acreage.

Norma “Duffy” Lyon was more than OK with being known as the “The Butter Cow Lady.” Afterall, for nearly a half century, she sculpted the butter cow and other creations at the Iowa State Fair.