The 7:06-a.m. Newscast w/News Director Ric Hanson.
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Cass County: Corn $6.72 Beans $14.85
Adair County: Corn $6.69 Beans $14.88
Adams County: Corn $6.69 Beans $14.84
Audubon County: Corn $6.71 Beans $14.87
East Pottawattamie County: Corn $6.75 Beans $14.85
Guthrie County: Corn $6.74 Beans $14.89
Montgomery County: Corn $6.74 Beans $14.87
Shelby County: Corn $6.75 Beans $14.85
Oats $3.00 (always the same in all counties)
Additional information can be found here.
(Radio Iowa) – After last year’s pandemic-related cancellations, all of Iowa’s 100 county fairs are a go in 2021 and five will be held this month. “Not to beat a dead horse about last year, but it was tough. This year, everybody’s back,” says Tom Barnes, executive director of the Association of Iowa Fairs. “…We’re hearing a lot of positive talk about people wanting to get back involved, be at the fair, help with the fair.” Barnes says the “curve ball” of last year’s pandemic prompted fair managers to improvise. For example, many staged competitions for the livestock 4-H and FFA members raised last year. “I believe the count was 85 or 86 fairs in Iowa did not happen at all, but did some sort of youth show-and-go type of event,” Barnes says. “…Early fairs in June was basically the guinea pigs of trying to make that happen and our later fairs learned by what the early fairs did correctly and did not do correctly.”
Barnes is also secretary of the Howard County Fair, which starts next week. Barnes says after years of emphasizing concerns about the spread of diseases among livestock, county fairs are being proactive about the human side as well. “We still have the sprayers and the hand sanitizers and all that. We’ll be utilizing that kind of stuff here during our fair, spacing things out as best as we possibility can, but what’s really helped the fairs be able to kick off this year is the vaccination,” Barnes says. “…There were skeptics three or four months ago. Whether you believe in the vaccination or not, it did change the public’s perception of getting back into a norm.”
The Wapello and Worth County fairs start this Wednesday, June 16. The Linn, Jefferson and Howard County Fairs begin on June 23. There are 99 counties in Iowa, but 100 counties fairs since Pottawattamie County holds two — one in Council Bluffs and the other in Avoca.
(Radio Iowa) – Iowa State University Extension crop specialist, Joel DeJong, says northwest Iowa crops are showing signs of stress from the dry conditions. He says they need around 25 inches of moisture during the crop development stage. “We still need to have about 12 to 15 inches of rainfall during this season. You know, if we have slightly about average we’re probably going to reach that — otherwise, we are going to put some stress on our yield potential through the year,” DeJong says.
DeJong says stress is already showing up in the corn leaves.”If you take a look at the cornfields recently, you’ll see that almost every day we have a lot of cornfields rolling,” according to DeJong. “And it is an indicator that the root systems of those corn plants — even if there is water in that soil — the root systems right now aren’t deep enough to keep up with daily demand with low humidity and high temperature.” He says the rolling has been evident the last week in the afternoons and some mornings during the mid-90 degree days. DeJong says the humidity that we try to avoid is a good thing out in the field.
“It’s kind of unique to have 20 to 25 percent humidity and 90-some degree temperatures. That makes it seem a little more cooler for humans — but that is the opposite of what we want to see for a crop,” Dejong explains. “We want to see high humidity to go with those temperatures if they are going to be that high, because high humidity means less water demand in those plants.” The crops specialist says if the issue continues, farmers may see a drastic yield loss. The corn ear now is starting to fill in rows. “All this stress is probably reducing some of the rows we are going to have in some of those ears — might only be a few rows less, maybe it’s a few more. We still have the potential to continue to form the length of that ear all the way to the length of that corn. We’re still in that process,” he says.
DeJong says the next thirty days will be critical to the corn development as the corn begins to pollinate. He says soybeans are also showing some signs of stress, but soybeans have a way to delay the need for moisture until later in the year.
Hawkeye Ten Conference
Atlantic 13, Shenandoah 9 (Game 1)
Atlantic 6, Shenandoah 3 (Game 2)
Denison-Schleswig 8, Clarinda 7 (Game 1)
Denison-Schleswig 11, Clarinda 1 (Game 2)
Glenwood 3, Harlan 1 (Game 1)
Glenwood 7, Harlan 6 (Game 2)
Kuemper Catholic 7, Creston 6 (Game 1)
Kuemper Catholic 1, Creston 0 (Game 2)
St. Albert 8, Red Oak 4 (Game 1)
St. Albert 11, Red Oak 1 (Game 2)
Western Iowa Conference
AHSTW 12, Riverside 2
Missouri Valley 16, Westwood 11
Treynor 6, Audubon 1
Tri-Center 19, IKM-Manning 3
Underwood 13, Logan-Magnolia 1
Rolling Valley Conference
Coon Rapids-Bayard 10, Ar-We-Va 0
West Harrison 4, Boyer Valley 1
Woodbine 6, CAM 0
Pride of Iowa Conference
Central Decatur 16, Moulton-Udell 0
Lenox 11, Stanton 0
Mount Ayr 10, Mormon Trail 1
Nodaway Valley 14, Exira/Elk Horn-Kimballton 4
Orient-Macksburg 7, East Union 1
Wayne 5, Murray 3
Other Scores
ACGC 5, Woodward-Granger 4
(Radio Iowa) – House Democrats have elected a new leader and she is the first woman to serve in the post. The 41 Democrats who serve in the Iowa House met last (Monday) night and elected Representative Jennifer Konfrst of Windsor Heights as House Minority Leader. Konfrst replaces Representative Todd Prichard of Charles City, who announced on June 2nd that he was stepping down after serving in the position for three legislative sessions.
IA House Rep. Jennifer Konfrst
Konfrst was first elected to the House in 2018, reelected in 2020 and she was the second-ranking Democrat in the Iowa House this past session. Konfrst has been a full time professor at Drake University since 2013, teaching course in political communication and public relations. Konfrst released a written statement Monday night and will hold an online news conference later this (Tuesday) morning.
Hawkeye Ten Conference
Atlantic 13, Shenandoah 1 (Game 1)
Atlantic 16, Shenandoah 0 (Game 2)
Denison-Schleswig 8, Clarinda 5 (Game 1)
Denison-Schleswig 10, Clarinda 9 (Game 2)
St. Albert 12, Red Oak 2 (Game 1)
Red Oak 7, St. Albert 6 (Game 2)
Harlan 10, Glenwood 0 (Game 1)
Harlan 7, Glenwood 1 (Game 2)
Creston 7, Kuemper Catholic 6 (Game 1)
Creston 12, Kuemper Catholic 2 (Game 2)
Western Iowa Conference
Treynor 1, Audubon 0 (Game 1)
Audubon 14, Treynor 4 (Game 2)
Logan-Magnolia 8, Underwood 3
Missouri Valley 4, Westwood 3
Riverside 2, AHSTW 1 — 8 innings
Tri-Center 11, IKM-Manning 2
Rolling Valley Conference
Ar-We-Va 7, Coon Rapids-Bayard 4
Exira-EHK 5, Nodaway Valley 1
West Harrison 9, Boyer Valley 8
Woodbine 9, CAM 1
Corner Conference
Griswold 14, East Mills 0
Sidney 11, Fremont-Mills 2
Pride of Iowa Conference
Central Decatur 11, Moulton-Udell 1
East Union 13, Orient-Macksburg 0
Lamoni 9, Bedford 5
Lenox 14, Stanton 2
Martensdale-St. Marys 12, Seymour 0
Mount Ayr 20, Mormon Trail 0
Wayne 12, Murray 0
Other Scores
ACGC 12, Woodward-Granger 0
West Central Valley 10, Panorama 4
HYLA NASH, 97, of Atlantic, died Monday, June 14th, at CCMH. Private family services are being held for HYLA NASH. Visitation will be held Thursday, June 17th, from 4:30-until 6:30-p.m., at Roland Funeral Home, in Atlantic.
Burial will be in the Monroe Township Cemetery north of Walnut.
Online condolences may be left at www.rolandfuneralservice.com.
Memorials may be directed to the Monroe Chapel, in memory of HYLA NASH.
HYLA NASH is survived by:
Her brother — Dell Babbitt.
Her children — Mary (Larry) Reimer of Atlantic, Joan Siebels of Minden, Nancy (Dick) Strittmatter of Atlantic, Rick (Phyllis) Nash of Highlands Ranch, CO, and Kim (Todd) Warth of Elizabeth, CO.
10 grandchildren, 21 great-grandchildren, 3 step great-grandchildren, and 2 step great-great-grandchildren.
Sheriff’s Deputies in Montgomery County, early Tuesday morning (Today), arrested 43-year-old Justin Smith, of Villisca. Smith was taken into custody at around 12:45-a.m. on a Fremont County warrant, following a brief incident in the 100 block of 4th Street, in Villisca. He was transported to the Montgomery County Jail and held for two counts of Ongoing Criminal Conduct/Unlawful Activity. Bond was set at $50,000.
Montgomery County Deputies were assisted by Red Oak Police, Deputies with the Adams and Cass County Sheriff’s Departments, along with Red Oak Fire and Rescue personnel.