Fireworks in Sioux Center on July 4

Independence Day Fireworks in Sioux Center will be on Friday, July 4 at 10 p.m. Fireworks will be launched from the south edge of the Ridge Golf Course. The public […]

Soybeans, corn firm, wheat mixed ahead of July 4th

Soybeans were modestly higher on short covering and technical buying, padding the weekly gains slightly. Unknown destinations bought 226,000 tons of old crop U.S. beans ahead of the open, along […]

A good year for the potatoes

A central Illinois potato grower says it’s been a good year. Kelsey Bess manages Neumiller-Sproule Farms, which grows over 1,000 acres of potatoes on the sandy, irrigated soils of Mason […]