Jim Field visits with Phil Sklar, Co-Founder and CEO of the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum in Milwaukee, WI.  They are introducing a pair of new Herky bobbleheads.  Find out more at:  www.bobbleheadhall.com.

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Friday:  Isolated showers before 8:00 am.  Partly sunny, then gradually becoming sunny, with a high near 82.  East northeast wind at 5 mph.
Friday Night:  Clear, with a low around 55.  East wind around 5 mph.
Saturday:  Sunny, with a high near 83.  South wind at 5 mph.
Sunday:  A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms.  Partly sunny, with a high near 78.
Monday:  A chance of showers and thunderstorms.  Mostly cloudy, with a high near 71.

The 41st Annual Carstens Farm Days is this Saturday and Sunday, September 9th and 10th.  The Carstens 1880 Farmstead provides a look back in time to life on the farm in the late 1800’s.

Each year, the show focuses on a different tractor manufacturer.  Board member Terry Torneten say’s this year it’s Farmall.

All tractor colors are welcome.  Torneten says there will be lots of steam and gas demonstrations, crafts, a quilt show and of course plenty of food.  But, he says the highlight is the daily parade.

Breakfast is available each morning and they have a healthy crop of farm-grown potatoes for sale.  Admission is $10 per day for those nine years old and up.  And, the farm is easy to find.

All proceeds help to maintain the farmstead project.

Jim Field visits with Terry Torneten about the 41st Annual Carstens Farm Days this weekend at the farm near Shelby.

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Republican presidential candidate Doug Burgum says carbon capture technology can spark what he calls “the golden age of agriculture.”

Burgum is the governor of North Dakota and the proposed Summit Carbon Solutions pipeline would ship carbon from Midwest ethanol plants to underground storage in Burgum’s state.

Burgum says the Biden Administration is hurting the U-S economy with a crazy level of spending in support of the electric vehicle industry.

Experts say over seven billion barrels of oil could be pumped from the Bakken (BAWK-en) oil fields in Burgum’s home state and Burgum says it’s time for the U-S to focus on liquid fuels.

Burgum campaigned in southwest Iowa yesterday (Tuesday) and toured the Great Plains plant in Shenandoah. The company is involved in a joint venture with United Airlines and a pipeline operator to develop an ethanol-based aviation fuel. Burgum’s campaign is hosting events in Harlan and Denison today (Wednesday).

Jim Field shares information on the Iowa State Nursery fall seedling program.

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Today:  Widespread haze after 7am. Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with a high near 78. Breezy, with a northwest wind 15 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
Tonight:  Widespread haze. Mostly clear, with a low around 49. North northwest wind 5 to 10 mph.
Thursday:  Sunny, with a high near 80. North northeast wind around 5 mph.
Friday:  Sunny, with a high near 83. East wind around 5 mph.
Saturday:  Sunny, with a high near 85.
Sunday:  A 40 percent chance of showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 79.

(Radio Iowa) – The Iowa Utilities Board hearing for the proposed Summit Carbon Solutions pipeline has entered its third week. Summit’s chief operating officer is on the witness stand. James Powell is in charge of design, construction and operation of the pipeline. He says Summit’s project is about ensuring ethanol plants that connect to the pipeline make a profit.

Brian Jordy, a lawyer for pipeline opponents, suggested the Utilities Board is being asked to pick pipeline investors as winners and property owners who don’t want the pipeline on their land will be the losers. Powell responded.

Powell says the company has rerouted its proposed pipeline 15-hundred times in Iowa.

Under questioning, Powell said he does not know the slate of investors in Summit Carbon Solutions. However, Powell did tell attorney Brian Jordy the pipeline company is a spin off of Summit Ag Group, which is owned by Bruce Rastetter, an entrepreneur who’s made investments in the pork and biofuels industries.

Summit Carbon Solutions is seeking eminent domain authority so unwilling landowners would be forced to grant the company permanent access to more than 900 parcels, or sections of property. Landowners opposed to the project testified during the first two weeks of the Utilities Board hearing, which is being held in Fort Dodge.

(Radio Iowa) – The Iowa Utilities Board hearing for the proposed Summit Carbon Solutions pipeline has entered its third week — and the company has a list of 15 witnesses scheduled to testify. Property owners who object to having the pipeline run through their land testified during the first two weeks of the hearing. The company’s witnesses are scheduled to testify this week. Summit is seeking eminent domain authority so unwilling landowners would be forced to grant the company permanent access to more than 900 parcels, or sections of property. The route for the proposed Summit pipeline stretches about 680 miles through Iowa and would carry carbon from ethanol plants in five states to underground storage in North Dakota.

Today’s (Tuesday’s) first witness is James Powell, the chief operating officer of Summit Carbon Solutions. Powell previously worked for a company that owned and managed pipelines. The second witness is Summit’s chief commercial officer, who has experience in the biofuels industry.