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Monthly Archives: July 2011

Cover Crops on the web

Check out these three recent posts about cover crops. Storm Damage is Opportunity for Cover Crops from Wallace’s Farmer website [...]

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RAGBRAI Rolls through Templeton, Practical Farmers of Iowa gives away FREE local produce

On Monday, over 500 riders detoured through the Practical Farmers of Iowa (PFI) tent in front of PFI members Art [...]

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Organic Beef, Sheep and Dairy

Dan and Bonnie Beard and family hosted approximately 50 people on their farm on Saturday, July 16th. The Beard family [...]

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Food-Handling Practices Field Day

On Sunday, July 10, Jan Libbey and Tim Landgraf hosted a field day at their One Step at a Time [...]

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Managing Farm Labor

What do you do when your business is growing and you realize you need more hands around to get all [...]

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Special Funding Available for Winter Hardy Cover Crops

Farmers in 29 north central Iowa counties must apply by Aug. 1 to receive special financial assistance for planting winter [...]

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Yoder Field Day

Approximately 60 people spent Friday Afternoon at the farm of Robert and Luella Yoder outside Bloomfield, IA.  Robert and Luella [...]

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Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) wisdom from Elizabeth Henderson on members as partners

Hundreds of CSA farm opportunities are available to consumers in Iowa and perhaps many thousand farms around the country. There [...]

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Growing peppers like a master

John Whitson of Sunrise Produce near Woodward has been growing peppers for twenty years. John specialized in habanero production until [...]

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