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Peoples Credit Union is on the move

Peoples Credit Union is on the move both literally and figuratively. The Webster City-based financial cooperative has just moved its Fort Dodge office to a spacious new facility at 1717 Fifth Ave. S., the city’s booming Corridor of Commerce. This relocation is part of Peoples’ robust ...

New DI Trailer hits the market

DAYTON — With keeping safety in mind, Davis Industries LLC., of Dayton unveiled a new gooseneck trailer last week that is now available on the market. Matt Davis, owner of Davis Industries LLC., said one of the many facets of his company has been trailer manufacturing and the new DI Trailer is the latest model to hit the marketplace. This isn’t an ordinary gooseneck trailer, however. “It is a detach gooseneck trailer,” said Davis. “We are the first ones to design it and are the first ones with a patent on it. There are multiple patents coming for the trailer.” The ...

Kruse and Taylor to speak at Farm News Ag show

Back by popular demand, Elwynn Taylor, Iowa State University Extension climatologist and professor of agronomy emeritus will be speaking at the Farm News Ag show on Thursday, Dec. 5 at 8:30 a.m. Taylor will be presenting a “crop weather outlook for 2020.” Taylor said the climate cycle is not as clear-cut as the seasonal, summer/winter cycles, however it does exist. “The worst years for Midwest crops during the 1900s was the 1930’s Dust Bowl,” he said. “The early farmers of Iowa and Illinois made note of the terrible crop years around 1847. The study of tree growth rings ...

‘WIN’

David Kruse, founder and owner of CommStock Investments and Farm News columnist is planning on presenting a new commodity portfolio during his talk at the Farm News Ag Show on Wednesday, Dec. 4 at 9 a.m. WIN is the title of his speech and the commodity portfolio that Kruse said stands for ...

Active Health expands

One of the goals at Active Health Clinics is to help people live their best life, according to Dr. Josh Mason. And one of the ways the Fort Dodge clinic is hoping to accomplish that goal is through a method called regenerative medicine. “Active Health is always willing to help our ...

Brian Stevenson to speak at Farm News Ag Show

It has been announced that Brian Stevenson, general manager of B. Stevenson Associates LLC will be speaking at the 2019 Farm News Ag Show. Stevenson is scheduled to speak on Thursday, Dec. 5 at 1 p.m. and will be presenting “Grow for a purpose: join the change in agriculture.” Some thoughts to consider about his presentation, he said are for what is grown, are those products being used for its best purpose? Do they support a brand? Does it help make ag more sustainable? “I can tell you that consumers and those who own consumer brands want to get closer to the farmer,” he ...