Wallaces Farmer is an agricultural newspaper based in Des Moines, Iowa.
The newspaper's lineage can be traced back to the 1850s and two separate publications, the Northwestern Farmer and Horticultural Journal and the Iowa Farmer and Horticulturist, which merged in 1861 to become The Iowa Homestead and Northwestern Farmer; the name eventually shortened to The Iowa Homestead.
[1] Henry Wallace became editor of The Iowa Homestead in 1883, and James M. Pierce purchased the paper in 1885.
Conflicts between the two over the paper's philosophy caused Wallace to leave.
The first issue of the combined Wallaces Farmer and Iowa Homestead came out in October 1929, as the stock market began to crash.