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Put all ingredients in a saucepan and simmer until it’s thick. Cook it down a quarter of the way in a pan, if pan is full cook it down to 3/4 of the pan.
COUNTIES IN IOWA: POTTAWATTAMIE-MILLS-MONTGOMERY-FREMONT-PAGE; IN NEBRASKA: SARPY-LANCASTER-CASS- OTOE-SALINE-JEFFERSON-GAGE-JOHNSON-NEMAHA-PAWNEE-RICHARDSON-
DAY ONE…TODAY AND TONIGHT: SOUTH WINDS WILL GUST TO 40 TO 45 MPH AT TIMES THIS AFTERNOON. HEAT INDEX VALUES WILL TOP OUT AROUND 100 TODAY.
DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN…WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY:
THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT. STORMS MAY BE STRONG TO SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL…DAMAGING WINDS…AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN. THE NEXT CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY..
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Senate has broken a deadlock on a half-trillion dollar farm and food bill, setting the stage for a final vote on the measure this week. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Monday, announced a list of some 70 amendments out of about 300 offered to the 1,000-page bill that would set farm policy over the next five years and provide nearly $80 billion a year for the federal food stamp program. The two parties have negotiated for days on which amendments would be allowed.
The Senate bill would bring major changes to the federal safety net for farmers by eliminating direct payments to farmers, even when they don’t plant crops, replacing that with greater stress on crop insurance. The House has yet to come up with a companion bill.
Jim Field speaks with Duane Weirich about the Lewis Day Festival activities coming up this weekend.
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FOR SALE: Schmoller and Mueller spinet piano with bench and piano light $375. Queen Sleeper Sofa from NE Furn Mart, plastic still on mattress $800. Black Iron Day Bed with new trundle frame, mattresses included $350. 712-249-3152.
WANTED: Verizon pre-paid cell phone, willing to spend no more than $25. E-mail jenkins-92@hotmail.com.
FOR SALE: 1 inch real wood mini blinds, various sizes; Roman shades, natural color, various sizes. 1 large tan colored living room carpet. All in excellent condition. Call for specific sizes: 712-254-0591.
The Iowa Master Gardener program is once again offering a series of summer webinars free to all local residents with an interest in gardening. The 2012 series is titled “Garden Goodness” and will be hosted by Iowa State University Extension county offices on the fourth Tuesday of each month, May through August. The Cass County Extension Office is a local host site.
Each session will provide information about vegetable gardening, from a variety of perspectives. The second presentation in the series is scheduled for Tuesday, June 26th. From 6:30-7:30 p.m. Angie Tagtow, environmental nutrition consultant,will discuss Food Gardening and Health. From 7:30-8:30 p.m. Denise Fikes, Mills County Extension horticulture assistant, will talk about Glenwood’s Giving Garden. Participants will watch the presentation live from campus, projected onto a large screen, and have the opportunity to ask questions and discuss the topic with the presenter. There is no charge to attend the classes, and no requirements to attend the entire series. Local gardeners are encouraged to attend any session that catches their interest.
Upcoming dates, presenters and topics for the 2012 series are:
On July 24, from 6:30-7:30 p.m. Linda Naeve will talk on the Peoples Garden Project and Working with Youth; from 7:30-8:30 p.m. Cindy Haynes will discuss Edible Ornamentals. Naeve is an ISU Extension value added agriculture specialist; Haynes is an associate professor in the Department of Horticulture and an ISU Extension consumer/urban horticulture specialist. The final session on August 28, from 6:30-8:30 p.m. will feature Angela Tedesco presenting the Top Ten Sustainable Gardening Tips from Turtle Farm. Tedesco is owner of Turtle Farm, an organic vegetable, fruit and herb CSA near Granger, Iowa.
The series, in its third year, is offered by Iowa Master Gardener program in response to requests for more Iowa gardening educational opportunities. The sessions are open to all interested gardeners; participants are not required to have completed Master Gardener training to attend, however the session will fulfill Master Gardener continuing education requirements.
Pre-registration is encouraged, but not required, to allow local staff to plan for appropriate accommodations. For more information, or to register, call the Cass County Extension Office at 712-243-1132, email keolson@iastate.edu, or stop by the Extension Office at 805 W. 10th St in Atlantic.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Iowa has received some much-needed rain but the state is still dry. The U.S. Department of Agriculture says in Monday’s weekly report that Iowa received an average of 1.5 inches of rain last week. That’s above the normal of about 1.2 inches. Even so, more than half the topsoil and subsoil remains dry. The USDA says 67 percent of the corn crop, which is beginning to silk, is in good or excellent condition. That’s the same as last week.
Soybeans, which are starting to bloom, are rated 61 percent good to excellent. That’s down from 62 percent a week ago. More than half the state’s pastures and range land are in poor or fair condition. However, stress on livestock is minimal with no issues reported.
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