Iowa is sitting slightly below the 5 year average for corn and soybeans while many factors are the reason why this is happening, the cost of diesel only makes things worse for farmers.
Iowa has a very heavy dependence on trucking with it being the main way of transporting cattle, store products, and overall goods. More than half a million of Iowa’s cattle is transported everyday whether it be from farm to farm, farm to slaughterhouse, or to another state.
Iowa is a key state in the US for meat production. Iowa is the #1 state in pork production and supplies the US with about 17% it’s red meat coming from Iowa.
Iowa Select Farms is Iowa’s biggest producer of pork producing around 1 billion pounds of pork annually.
