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Be sure to attend your county fair

Times change. Even so, there are a few constants in life. One is the pleasure provided by the county fairs that continue to be a highlight of summer in Iowa. For as far back as anyone who now lives in this part of Iowa can remember, these summer festivals have been much-anticipated and ...

World Pork Expo is worth a look

The 2024 edition of the World Pork Expo is fast approaching. It will be held June 5-6 at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines. This annual event brings together pork producers, exhibitors and visitors not just from across Iowa, but also from throughout the nation. More than 10,000 people ...

May is Beef Month in Iowa

As we enter the month of May, it is worth noting that it is a time to celebrate an important meat product. May is Beef Month. For many of us, every month is a time to partake of a food that ranks high on the list of culinary favorites. It’s no secret that Americans have a love affair with ...

Ag technology advances through the ages

It is no exaggeration to say that much has changed since the first metal plow sliced into the thick, fertile Iowa soil. The annual cycle of planting and harvesting continues, but just about everything else about farming has changed. And it is technology that has caused much of that ...

The future of ethanol and SAF

To the editor: Sustainable aviation fuel or SAF is quoted as potentially being a 35 billion gallon-a-year domestic market by 2050. This I believe is incorrect because SAF presently is a blend of conventional fossil fuel and synthetic components made from renewable feed stocks, which ethanol ...

Keep Iowa’s roads safe during planting

We are quickly approaching one of those times of the year when big, slow-moving farm vehicles rumble out onto roadways dominated by faster-paced traffic. That shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone who lives in farm country. Even so, all of us should pay special heed to safety considerations as we ...

Rethinking farm policy

To the editor: After reading the latest March 8 Farm News articles by Sen. (Charles) Grassley and Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig, the capitalist ploy called misdirection was dancing its clever jig. It would take a book to unravel all the nonsense spewed by the authors of those ...

Hopes this is Kruse’s awakening

To the editor: It was great to see David Kruse writing about Javier Milei, the new president of Argentina (March 8 Farm News). It might not be Haiti, but it’s been close to the bottom with nowhere to go but up for many years. Milei describes himself as an “anarcho-capitalist,” which ...

Carbon capture — The Rest of the Story

Growing up, I enjoyed listening to Paul Harvey’s radio program, “The Rest of the Story.” To see the whole picture, this is my take on the rest of the story on carbon capture. Did you know that CO2 makes up only .04 percent of the earth’s atmosphere? Most of the world’s carbon ...

It’s time for spring — and farming

It’s getting to be that time of the year. You may have seen someone working in the fields. You may have seen a tractor rolling down a rural road. If you are a farmer, perhaps you have been looking over the fields and getting the machinery ready. All that activity means one thing — the ...