AMES — Iowa Learning Farms will host a “Conservation On Tap” event from 5:30 to 7 p.m. on July 30 in partnership with the Iowa State University Brew Lab located at 1951 Food Sciences Building on campus in Ames. The event, which is available at no cost, will provide local farmers, ...
I have heard it said that farmers should not make too much of their own cropping conditions when making assumptions about U.S. crop production as a whole. They shouldn’t make too much of conditions, good or bad, in their own backyard. We report what our corn crop conditions and production is ...
AMES — Midwest commercial vegetable growers can access two new resources from Iowa State University Extension and Outreach on napa cabbage and eggplant production. The publications, which are available for download at no cost from the Iowa State Extension Store, provide research-backed ...
Every year, families from one side of Iowa to the other gather at the Iowa State Fair to celebrate their farm’s heritage — whether a Century Farm marking 100 years of ownership by the same family, or a Heritage Farm, recognizing the incredible feat of 150 years of ownership by one ...
I don’t even remember when I became one of those garden ladies. I don’t have a ton of memories of tending to a garden when I was growing up, though Mom remembers it plenty. Given that, I don’t recall how it became part of my own DNA. We knew a guy who once told my husband that they ...
SANBORN — Saving time and money, and protecting a farmer’s investment in cattle are all reasons to embrace technology that will support those things, according to Erin DeHaan, assistant professor in the Department of Animal Science at South Dakota State University, and extension beef ...
Searching for ticks following an outing is something many don’t do, but should, according to Angela Horvath, a doctoral student in occupational and environmental health at the University of Iowa. Horvath researches vector-born disease under U of I Professor Kathryn Dalton. Ticks begin as ...
This is the time of year when Americans traditionally embark on extended journeys with their loved ones. Some of these journeys are so long that by the time they end there’s a good deal of fantasizing about leaving said loved ones at the next roadside gas station. It’s family vacation ...
In the ongoing, years-long group text between my four brothers and sister, there was a brief exchange the Saturday before Memorial Day between me, son Paul, and my next younger brother Perry. I had forwarded Perry a message from Paul, a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy serving on a ...
LAKE PARK — Isolated straight line winds tore through parts of Dickinson and Osceola counties during the early morning hours of June 30, leveling farm buildings, damaging homes, uprooting trees and knocking out power. No injuries were reported, and there was no confirmation of a ...
