The USDA proposes moving a large seed bank for corn from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to the central Iowa city of Ames. There’s concern the move would endanger the climate-controlled 100,000 samples of corn, some of them a century old, in addition to being redundant and very expensive. Iowa U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley says […]
More than one quarter of the Iowa corn crop remains to be harvested
Last week started out wet, but farmers were able to get into the fields this past weekend to continue the harvest.
