When Fort Dodge was hammered by a strong snowstorm last February, Kyle Johnson and his crew spent hours on end trying to dig out residents and businesses. “We plowed for 60 hours straight, no stopping,” said Johnson, owner of Johnson Bro’s Snow and Mow. “It was like 13 inches (of ...
LAKOTA — The farm of Eldon and Nancy Haas is located north of Lakota on the west side of U.S. Highway 169. From the highway a passerby can see the red barn with its white steel roof. It’s an indication of the significance of the barn to the farm. “That barn provided a lot of income ...
DES MOINES – Touted as North America’s largest winter swine trade show and conference, the Iowa Pork Producers Association held the 2020 Iowa Pork Congress last week, Jan. 22 and 23 at the Iowa Events Center in Des Moines. In addition to daily seminars and the youth swine judging ...
GOWRIE — The colorful silk scarves created by Karen McCubbin, of Gowrie, go through a special process before they become a finished product. The scarves are put in a bowl of water and then heated up — in a microwave. “When I tell people I make the scarves in the microwave, they ...
AYRSHIRE — If one didn’t know it was there, a person would drive right past the acreage of David C. Loomis. West of Ayrshire on the Highway to Heaven (420th St), you can find a quarter-mile long lane that, when the corn is tall, seemingly goes nowhere. Follow that lane and you will come upon the secluded acreage where David Loomis and his wife, Nuesa call home. Loomis purchased the acreage in 2007 from the Wilbur Wernimont Trust. “I was gone from the area 49 years,” Loomis said. “I joined the Air Force right after I graduated in 1958.” He spent almost 23 years in ...
ALTOONA — Is your fuel killing you? It was no accident the 2020 Iowa Renewable Fuels Summit raised this provocative question right before consumer advocate Erin Brockovich took the stage. “This is a price we shouldn’t be willing to pay, especially when there are accessible, affordable options,” said Carol Werner, director emeritus and senior policy fellow with the Environmental and Energy Study Institute in Washington, D.C., who spoke in favor of ethanol. Ethanol reduces aromatics, a pleasant-sounding term for dangerous air toxins like benzene in gasoline. Benzene is a ...
