STORM LAKE — The Lenhart family’s farm continues to add more generations to occupy the land, 108 years after it was purchased. It all started on March 2, 1911 when Frank and Sarah Lenhart purchased 160 acres near Storm Lake. The current owners of the farm, Pat Lenhart and his ...
Hopes for a more positive World Agriculture Supply and Demand Estimate (WASDE) report from the USDA were crushed on Monday when the planted corn acres estimate wasn’t lowered to expectation. “This has been a long awaited report from USDA ever since the acreage estimate for corn at 91.7 million acres back on June 28. We have been waiting for this second survey, hoping for a little more constructive number,” said Todd Hultman, DTN grain market analyst. “We finally got that today, but I am sorry to say, we don’t have much good news when it comes to corn prices for at least grain ...
Chris Staley, of Webster City, has always had a love for design. “I have been doing something in the art field my whole life,” Staley said. “I have been drawing since I could pick up a pencil.” He added, “I literally took every art class available through school.” And ...
The Messenger has donated $5,000 to the Greater Fort Dodge Growth Alliance. The money came from proceeds of the All About Greater Fort Dodge publication sales. All About Greater Fort Dodge features information on businesses, industry, housing, schools, health care and other elements of ...
LAKE CITY — It probably seemed like more of a nuisance than a serious threat when Charles Acklin scratched his skin on barbed wire one day early in 1927. But after this Lake City-area farmer contracted a tetanus infection from his injury and passed away at age 44 on March 18, 1927, ...
Whether you are a landowner looking to rent your ground or a farmer looking to expand your operation, the land leasing process could get a little easier with help from a new company that has recently expanded its services into Iowa. Started in 2017, Tillable is an online marketplace that assists landowners and farmers by using a digital platform that enables Iowa landowners to take care of their farm lease and farmers to find available land to rent. “We are the first true online marketplace for the farmland rental market and that market is around $32 billion a year in size,” said ...
