• KJAN, Atlantic  .12″
• 7 miles NNE of Atlantic  .09″
• Massena  .18″
• Elk Horn  .11″
• Villisca  .25″
• Clarinda  .1″

If you are looking for fresh local produce, make sure to check our stands all across the county. The Cass County Iowa Local Food, Farmers Markets, and Food Access Facebook page also shares when produce has been donated to stands.

• 208 Chestnut St. Anita

• 507 Popular St. Atlantic

• 1209 E 8th St. Atlantic

• 1020 E. 3rd St. Atlantic

• 500 Main St. Cumberland

• 100 Cass St. Griswold

• 412 W. Main St. Lewis

• 418 2nd St. Marne

• 74851 Richland Rd. Massena

• 108 Pioneer St. Wiota

(Radio Iowa) – The U-S-D-A crop report released Monday, says farmers were able to harvest five percent of the corn in the last week. That is five days behind last year but equal to the five-year average.

The report found nine percent of the beans were out of the fields and into the bins at the end of the week. The harvest rate is equal to last year and one day ahead of the five-year average.

(Radio Iowa) – Iowa Ag Secretary Mike Naig is back from a trade trip with the governor and business leaders to India. “Met with folks who could be customers of ours in India in terms of importing, food and agriculture products, but also had a chance to brag on Iowa a little bit and talk about what it’s like to do business here, and try to recruit some folks who may want to put a footprint in or make an investment in the state,” he says. Naig says India has a lot of potential.

“The largest country by population, over one-point-four billion people,” Naig says, “and from a food and agriculture standpoint, there are so many things that they need in order to meet that demand. They’ve got a rising middle class, a middle class that will exceed 500 million people.” Naig says there are some key Iowa products that could fill the void there. “We think that there’s tremendous opportunity for us to supply feed to their livestock sector. They’re also looking to improve and increase the amount of ethanol that they’re blending into their fuel. And so ethanol is a very, very real possibility for us to have significant exports to that country,” he says.

Mike Naig (Iowa PBS photo)

Naig says feed and ethanol are just a couple of the items that could be exported. “There are just opportunities abounding there for the things that we produce and have so much in abundance here in the state of Iowa,” Naig says. Naig says they did sign two memorandums of understanding with India. “One with the sort of the livestock and feeding grain sector to explore ways that we can work together, and the other was with a research institute to look at ways that we can work together in terms of research on crop and renewable energy,” he says, “also, how do we prepare the next generation with the skill set that they need to take advantage of the types of technology that we have here in the United States.”

Naig says the trip is part of the effort to lay the groundwork for longer term trade. “I think what we want to do is be positioned to have an opportunity to enter that market and do so in a big way, but it’s going to take some time for that to develop,” he says.

Naig joined the governor, and directors of the Iowa Economic Development Authority and Iowa Finance Authority on the ten-day trip to India.

(Area News) – ISU Extension in Adair, Audubon, Cass and Guthrie Counties will host a free, one-hour learning session for private well owners on Wednesday evening, October 9th (2024) at 6-p.m. The program will help attendees understand their well’s water quality and connect them to resources to manage their well. A representative will also be on hand from the Guthrie County Environmental health department, which provides services to all four counties to offer free well-water testing.

Did you know that Iowa has a unique funding source for free or low-cost annual testing of private wells? Or that some water pollutants are odorless, tasteless and will not be removed by boiling water? If you’re curious about the answers to these questions, then take advantage of the upcoming learning session which will detail how to test your well and who can help, common contaminants, and factors that affect well water quality.

The program will be taught by Catherine DeLong, Water Quality Program Manager for ISU Extension and Outreach. According to DeLong, “About 230,000 Iowans rely on private wells as their home’s main water source, yet many do not know they should be testing once a year and that Iowa has a unique funding source to help cover the cost of testing.”

The free program will take place on Wednesday evening, October 9 from 6:00pm –7:00pm at the Anita Community Center, located at 805 Main Street in Anita. While there is no charge to attend, pre-registration is requested for seating and materials. To RSVP contact the county Extension office in Adair (641-743-8412), Audubon (712-563-4239), Cass (712-243-1132) or Guthrie (641-747-2276) county, or email keolson@iastate.edu. Information about this and other upcoming programs can also be found online at www.extension.iastate.edu/cass.

(Des Moines, Iowa) –  Officials in charge of Iowa’s state parks invite you to lend a hand this Saturday, Sept. 28 for Statewide Volunteer Day. Several state parks and forests will host events that include picking up litter, trail maintenance, prairie seed gathering and more. No experience is necessary. The Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) invites you to come out and enjoy the outdoors! The list of state parks and forests where volunteer help is needed can be found HERE.

In southwest Iowa, that includes: Lake Anita State Park, in Anita; Springbrook State Park, in Guthrie Center, and Waubonsie State Park, in Hamburg.

You can learn more about specific events, on the DNR’s Volunteer webpage

(Iowa News Service) – Advocates for a fair, sustainable and healthy food system have released a report showing that nearly all of the corn seed in Iowa is controlled by just four companies. Economists say concentrations that large can lead to market manipulation. Farm Action’s report shows nearly 90-percent of the corn seed in Iowa is controlled by Corteva and Bayer. AgReliant and Syngenta control the rest. Farm Action President Angela Huffman says that kind of control and concentration is happening all the way from seeds to the consumer’s plate, and she warns it makes market conditions ripe for abuse.

The same type of consolidation is happening in ag operations where livestock are raised in large confinements, and manure runoff is known to damage the air, ground and surface water in rural Iowa.

SALO, FINLAND – AUGUST 22, 2015: Line up of four John Deere agricultural tractors, 6115R and 7340 on the left, at Puontin Peltopaivat Agricultural Harvesting and Cultivating Show.

Operators have said they’re always looking for more efficient and environmentally friendly ways to raise livestock.

Huffman argues that monopolies like this can lead to collusion, price fixing and other types of market manipulation. She and other advocates have called on lawmakers in Congress to address the issue in the pending Farm Bill.

The current Farm Bill, which was supposed to expire in September of last year, has been extended – but debate still hasn’t started on a new version.

(Radio Iowa) – Iowa’s bumper crop of buzzing cicadas this year may lead to a population boom in another, much-smaller insect known as the oak leaf itch mite. St. Louis-area entomologist Tad Yankoski says the mites are tiny, but there are many, many millions of them emerging in Missouri, and Iowa could be next.

Unlike mosquitoes, these weensy mites don’t seek people out, but he says if they find you, you’ll know it.

Those mite bites can leave annoying welts that might persist for days or even weeks.

Cicadas (Photo by Ginny Mitchell at Iowa State University’s Insect Zoo)

Cicadas can grow one to two inches in length, and they’re insect giants compared to these mites.

Iowa saw emergence’s of both the 13- and 17-year cicada broods this spring, with large populations in both northeast and southeast Iowa.

Asa Lucas, Chris Parks, Christian Adams, and Matt Mullenix take a look at 8 area high school football games each week throughout the season. We try to provide some insight into the match-ups while competing for top prognosticator and the Whosman Trophy.

Who’s Gonna Win? is brought to you again in 2024 by Rush CPA & Associates and Fareway.

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Matt Mullenix 7-1
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Chris Parks 22-2
Chrisitan Adams 19-5

Asa Lucas 19-5

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KJAN Sports Asa Lucas’ weekly discussion with Atlantic Head Football Coach Joe Brummer. This week we talk about the Week 3 win against Greene County and look ahead to a road trip at Winterset.

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