Farmers make most of warm, dry September
Farmers across much of the Midwest are taking advantage of a warm and dry start to fall. Chelsea Ferrie with Practical Farmers of Iowa says a lot of fieldwork has […]
USDA sees rise in wheat production
The USDA is projecting a bigger wheat crop in 2024. Total production is seen at 1.971 billion bushels, an increase of 9% from 2023, with a lower rate of abandonment, […]
CME cash dairy prices mixed Monday
Cash dairy prices were mixed Monday on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Dry whey was unchanged at $0.5975. Five sales were recorded, ranging from $0.5975 to $0.60. Forty-pound cheese blocks were […]
Fall cover crop challenges
An agronomist says farmers are seeing challenges establishing cover crops this fall. John Pike, who’s based in southern Illinois, says herbicide carryover after late-planted soybeans is a concern. “There were […]
Quarterly grain stocks shoot higher
The USDA says quarterly old crop corn and soybean stocks were well above a year ago. The domestic old crop corn supply on September 1st was 1.76 billion bushels, up […]
Radio Iowa High School Football Poll 9/30/24
Class 5A 1. Dowling Catholic (4-1), LW #1 vs #6 Centennial 2. WDM Valley (4-1), LW #2 @ Waukee Northwest 3. Bettendorf (5-0), LW #3 vs Cedar Rapids Kennedy 4. […]
GPAC honors Northwestern and Dordt players
Northwestern quarterback Colby Duncan is this week’s GPAC/Hauff Mid-America Sports Offensive Player-of-the-Week. Duncan, a freshman from Papillion, Nebraska, had over 400 yards of offense in his first career start, completing […]
Sorghum, soybean export inspections up on week
The USDA says corn and wheat export inspections as of the week ending September 26th are ahead of what’s needed to meet projections for the current marketing year. The 2024/25 […]
Reynolds says trade mission to spark more exchanges between Iowa and India
Governor Kim Reynolds spent about a third of the month of September on a trade mission in India. Reynolds says the groundwork for her meetings was laid decades ago by […]
Hurricane impact on Iowa likely to keep things dry
The massive hurricane that blew into Florida and the southern U.S. won’t be felt directly in Iowa, but it will have an indirect impact. Iowa DNR hydrologist Tim Hall says […]
