We spent considerable time and effort this winter cleaning up and out the home where we raised our children. It was time to let the house become “home” to another generation. Anyone who has moved can relate to the way every room in a home comes alive with memories. A farm parent might ...
NORTHWOOD — In a creative merging of two separate worlds, arts and agriculture come together in northern Iowa to offer visitors the opportunity to enjoy culture while surrounded by cropland. Art Farm Iowa happens to be a nonprofit arts and agriculture destination outside of Northwood ...
With mesh bags in hand, their heads mostly looking down, and a keen desire to find the motherload of morels, a secretive band of hunters is about to hit the woods in central Iowa. Will this be the year when the sometimes elusive morel mushrooms are abundant for those willing to trek into ...
I’ve discovered that some things age better than others. Bourbon and cheese are examples of things that improve with time while bread and my short-term memory have fleeting … um, what are the words? Oh, yeah! Expiration dates. Many things are deemed useless once they attain a certain age. ...
It may be a surprise that last year’s biggest ag story — tariffs — was swept off today’s front pages by even bigger news: a Middle East war, its sharply higher fuel and fertilizer prices, and the near certainty of another multi-billion dollar farm aid package. Then again, it’s not ...
Spring planting fieldwork prep has started across the state, but concerns about the cost of rising expenses could prompt producers to shift acres from corn to soybeans, which is already evidenced in the latest prospective planting report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. In fact, in ...
Early in this nations’ developmental history, as they shaped where they thought that U.S. boundaries should be located, presidents Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and James Monroe all envisioned the shared opinion that the inclusion of Cuba was “indispensable.” This was back when founders ...
NEWS *The Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York entered a consent order against Peken Global Limited, a company incorporated under the laws of the Turks and Caicos Islands, that operates the KuCoin exchange, for allowing ...
Our little granddaughter visited us not long ago. It’s an hour’s time or so between our driveways, so drop-in visits don’t happen very often. Still, we are grateful no one has to board a plane for a visit. Connecting flights confound me at times — in the same way that finding only ...
AMES — The 17th president of Iowa State University departed North Dakota and headed back to his old stompin’ grounds of Ames. Dr. David Cook, an Ames native and Iowa State alumnus, officially stepped into the president’s role at ISU the first of March. From May 2022 to February ...
