The annual News from the Coffee Shop Crop Tour will take place on Friday, August 30, 2013.
Planned route will be determined by number of RSVP responses.
Watch the blog for more details and formal invite in the next week.
Contact Pete Burmeister with any questions or to RSVP at 319-327-0806.
Pete thanks for posting!
Gage is looking for donations anything he raises before Saturday, 8/17, Sale of Champions will be his starting bid.
The money is a tax deductible donation to support IA Foundation Agriculture Advancement Scholarships. Gage will receive 75% of final bid.
This money will help Gage keep raising these Award winning chickens!
Thanks again to anyone who has supported Gage!
Jason Lekin (@jason_lekin) tweeted at 10:36 PM on Thu, Aug 08, 2013: Congrats to Frank Albertson from Toledo, IA. Biggest boar at #iowastatefair
Camburn Shephard (@Camburnclimate) tweeted at 7:31 PM on Thu, Aug 08, 2013: After a parts drive yesterday, looks like 50% or more of ND corn is not going to be harvested for grain. Some not tassled, Aug 8th. #nocorn
Benton County, IA Listing
Clean, updated 400 Kinze Grain Cart. Bottom auger recently replaced, new sprockets & bearings.
Asking $4,500
Contact Jon Kaiser
319-560-3206
Gage Weber Reserve Grand Champion 4-H Market Broilers Iowa State Fair 2013 from Buchanan County ....donations for sponsors encouraged!
Feedstuffs (@Feedstuffs) tweeted at 7:34 PM on Wed, Aug 07, 2013: BEEF NEWS: Tyson Fresh Meats will stop purchasing cattle fed zilpaterol (Zilmax) effective Sept. 6.
Benjamin Riensche (@BenRiensche) tweeted at 6:41 AM on Wed, Aug 07, 2013: No rain last night. Dry, cool forecast for the next week. You heard it here first. Iowa has a much poorer bean crop than last year.
First, you start with a cage containing five monkeys. Inside the cage, hang a banana on a string and place a set of stairs under it. Before long, a monkey will go to the stairs and start to climb towards the banana. As soon as he touches the stairs, spray all of the other monkeys with cold water.
After a while, another monkey makes an attempt with the same result – all the other monkeys are sprayed with cold water. Pretty soon, when another monkey tries to climb the stairs, the other monkeys will try to prevent it.
Now, put the cold water away…
Remove one monkey from the cage and replace it with a new one. The new monkey sees the banana and wants to climb the stairs. To his surprise and horror, all the other monkeys attack him.After another attempt and attack, he knows that if he tries to climb the stairs he will be assaulted.
Next, remove another of the original five monkeys and replace it with a new one. The newcomer goes to the stairs and is attacked – and the previous newcomer takes part in the punishment with enthusiasm! Likewise, replace a third original monkey, then a fourth, and then the fifth.
Every time the newest monkey takes to the stairs, he is attacked. Most of the monkeys that are beating him have no idea why they were not permitted to climb the stairs or why they are participating in the beating of the newest monkey.
After replacing all of the original monkeys, none of the remaining monkeys have ever been sprayed with cold water. Nevertheless, no monkey will ever again approach the stairs to try for the banana. Why not? Because as far as they know, that's the way it's always been done around here.
And that, my dear friends… is how many farm traditions get started.
Jason Britt (@jasonlbritt) tweeted at 8:58 AM on Tue, Aug 06, 2013: Bloomberg News: Heat wave scorching crops in China. "I see in next 2 weeks the entire NCP corn belt seeing temps in high 90s to low 100s."
From Scott Hingtgen- Jackson County, IA
E.C.Iowa: cut sorghum/sudan Saturday. Baled most of it Sunday. 6/10 of rain on Monday. Definitely need the rain, we were just starting to show some signs of moisture stress. If temps would have been in the upper 80's and 90's we would have really been hurting. Everything is looking pretty good crop wise.Fungicide application has started.
