Jim Field speaks with Cass County Farmers Markets Coordinator Chelsea Amundson about area farmers markets and a special Cass County Harvest Market coming up.
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Jim Field speaks with Cass County Farmers Markets Coordinator Chelsea Amundson about area farmers markets and a special Cass County Harvest Market coming up.
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Police in Creston report the arrest Wednesday morning of an Adair County man. 49-year old Paul B. Pals, of Orient, was arrested at the Union County Law Enforcement Center on a warrant out of Union County for OWI/1st offense. Pals was later released from the jail on $1,000 bond.
The (podcast) Freese-Notis forecast for the KJAN listening area and weather info. for Atlantic.
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639 AM CDT THU SEP 18 2014
…AREAS OF FOG DENSE IN PLACES…
CLEAR SKIES AND LIGHT WINDS HAVE ALLOWED THE TEMPERATURE TO DROP RAPIDLY OVERNIGHT. AREAS OF FOG HAVE FORMED…ESPECIALLY IN LOW LYING AREAS AND IN RIVER VALLEYS…WITH VISIBILITY REDUCED TO UNDER ONE QUARTER MILE IN A FEW LOCATIONS. PATCHY DENSE FOG IS MOST WIDESPREAD SOUTH OF U.S. HIGHWAY 20. MOTORISTS SHOULD BE
AWARE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUDDEN VISIBILITY CHANGES AND ALLOW FOR EXTRA TRAVEL TIME TO REACH THEIR DESTINATION.
THE FOG WILL BEGIN LIFTING SHORTLY AFTER SUNRISE AND DISSIPATE BY MID MORNING.
MERWYN BROWN, 81, of Beaumont, TX (& formerly of Harlan), died Sept. 2nd, in Beaumont. An outdoor Celebration of Life gathering for MERWYN BROWN will be held at the home of Gary and Karol Robertson, of Elk Horn this Saturday (Sept. 20th), from Noon until 4-p.m. .
MERWYN BROWN is survived by:
His children – Gaige, of Harlan; & Todd, Debra and Dennis, of Castle Rock, CO.
His sister – Karol (Gary) Robertson, of Elk Horn.
His brother – Cleo (Katie) Brown, of Urbandale.
8 grandchildren and 4 great-grandchildren.
Iowa farmers are preparing to roll out their combines for harvest season but they may be hitting the fields in a few weeks with mixed emotions. A new report from the U-S Department of Agriculture projects a four-point-three bushel-per-acre increase in the corn yield nationwide. The U-S-D-A’s chief economist Joe Glauber says that much corn means only one thing. “No question, looking at lower prices as a result,” Glauber says.
Corn prices have been falling all summer and the latest projection shows another 21-percent decrease in prices in the next marketing year for corn. Soybean prices are also expected to drop 23-percent. Iowa is the nation’s top producer of both corn and soybeans so those statistics will hit especially hard here. “The question is, where does all this look once you’ve netted out the cost of production,” Glauber says. “I think the real factor there looming has been the high cash rents. We know cash rents have gone up over the last few years. In some areas, they’ve begun to come down a little bit and we’d expect with lower returns, certainly, that those will come down.”
However, what was paid for cash rent this year is what will go into the production formulas. A U-S-D-A report out last week found the average price to rent Iowa farmland has gone up slightly this year, averaging 260-dollars per acre for corn and soybean ground. That’s about five-dollars an acre higher than last year. Glauber says it may be a challenge to find places to put all of the bumper crop.
“Pressure on storage capacity is going to put pressure on transportation,” he says. “There are already problems in the transportation service, particularly in the Northern Plains, where we’ve seen bases widening, long delays.”
Glauber says the good news is — there is a market for all that corn about to be harvested as ethanol production and exports remain very strong. Iowa is the nation’s top ethanol producer.
(Radio Iowa)
LOUISE A. SMITH, 66, of Atlantic, died Wed., Sept. 17th, at her home. Funeral services for LOUISE SMITH will be held 10-a.m. Sat., Sept. 20th, at the 1st United Presbyterian Church in Atlantic. Roland Funeral Home in Atlantic has the arrangements.
Visitation at the funeral home is from 5-to 8-pm Friday, with the family present. Online condolences may be left at www.rolandfuneralservice.com.
Burial will be in the Atlantic Cemetery.
Memorials may be directed to the family for later designation.
LOUISE SMITH is survived by:
Her husband – Wayne Smith.
Her daughters – Lisa (Jeff) Metheny, & Amy (Jason) Berg, all of Griswold.
Her son – Nathan (Lisa) Smith, of Granger.
and 9 grandchildren.