EMMETSBURG — Everything agriculture and more took over the Iowa Lakes Community College Emmetsburg Campus on Wednesday for the Farm News Ag Show. In addition to several vendors located both inside and out, show-goers also had the opportunity to listen to three agricultural experts who ...
The contents found at the bottom of a bargain box sparked a new passion and ultimately a new business for Laura Ross, of Moorland. The box was purchased a few years ago at Sparky’s Auction Services in Fort Dodge. “I think we paid two dollars for it,” Ross recalled. Inside was a school safety patrol badge and some broken pocket watch parts, she said. “It was one of those boxes no one wanted,” Ross’s husband, Terry Ross said. “She made a couple pieces out of the surprises in the box.” The pieces she creates are made from antique pocket watches. The watches ...
EMMETSBURG — Farm News is hosting its first Iowa Lakes Community College Emmetsburg Farm News Ag Show from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Iowa Lakes Community College Emmetsburg Campus, 3200 College Drive, Emmetsburg. The main show sponsor of this event is Poet Biorefining, of Emmetsburg. For those familiar with the annual Farm News Ag Show held each December, they can expect the same ag-based exhibitors showcasing their latest state-of-the-art technology in grain products, ag equipment, ag services, seed varieties, fertilizer, ag banking and home improvement. But on a ...
AMES — Trade wars. Tariffs. Widespread flooding. Delayed planting. Seems like many farmers in Iowa and beyond can’t get a break this spring, and the numbers help tell the story. “U.S. agriculture’s debt-to-asset ratio for 2019 is forecast at 13.9 percent, meaning it’s moving in the wrong direction,” said Dr. John Newton, chief economist for the American Farm Bureau Federation, who spoke at the 92nd annual Soil Management Land Valuation Conference in Ames recently. “This ratio has increased seven consecutive years, plus it’s the highest level in nearly 20 ...
LATIMER — Burtek Dry Ice, owned by Fort Dodge native Mike Kentfield, continues to expand its operations and is serving the needs of one of the largest plants in the Fort Dodge region. In 2017, Burtek Dry Ice landed a contract to provide dry ice to Prestage Foods of Iowa, according to Kentfield. Prestage’s pork plant is located south of Eagle Grove. To accommodate the needs of Prestage, a new manufacturing plant for Kentfield’s company was built in Latimer. “This also gave us the ability to expand our customer base north and east,” Kentfield said. Kentfield is a ...
Taco Tico in Fort Dodge has always done things a little differently. All the food is made in-house, said Ben Johnson, whose father brought the franchise to Fort Dodge in 1977. Now, a group of investors from Lexington, Kentucky, is betting they can copy the little store’s success. The ...
