03/24/2026
Iowa Ag Fact of the Day! 🌽
Did you know Iowa’s farms rank #1 nationally, producing more corn, pigs, eggs, ethanol, and biodiesel than any other state in the country.
Iowa also ranks #1 nationally in several conservation practices used to protect soil and water quality, such as water quality wetlands, bioreactors, saturated buffers, grassed waterways, filter strips, buffer strips, pollinator habitat, conservation tillage, and terraces.
Additionally, Iowa ranks #2 in soybean and oat production, #4 in cattle on feed, #7 in turkeys, #9 in sheep and lambs, and #11 in milk production, according to the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS).
More than 416,000 acres of wetlands have been restored thanks to Iowa’s farmers, and more than 3.8 million acres of cover crops were planted in 2023 to protect Iowa’s soil and water. According to the most recent U.S. Census of Agriculture (2022), Iowa ranks second nationally in cover crop acres.
Learn more at ConservationCountsIowa.com.
