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EMMETSBURG --- Jim Stillman turns to watch his brother pull the planter across a field just outside of this Palo Alto County town.

CLARION --- Gary Woodley walks across the field, mud clinging to his boots with every step.

PERCIVAL --- David Lueth started planting corn April 19. Nearly two weeks later, he's still planting corn.

EARLING --- Once conditions were right, Denny Kenkel says he didn't waste much time getting into the field.

WAPELLO — Nestled between two flooded rivers, the Iowa and Mississippi, conditions were ideal for Warren Kemper to start planting on May 1.

DAYTON --- A.J. Blair is in a good mood today. "I think we're behind where we normally would be, but we're doing better than most people this spring," Blair says.

WEST BRANCH --- John Black called planting progress and conditions "barely fit."

ALBIA --- Paul Belzer has seen farmers being busy this spring.

ALBIA --- When Junior Gardner started working in an office, he was not as comfortable as being on his farm. So, he moved part of the farm into his office.

Before the 2007 Iowa Corn Indy 250 in Newton, Arlington farmer Tim Recker did not know Iowa had the most auto race tracks per capita.

It's one thing to hear Northeast Iowa farmer Mark Mueller talk about the saturated conditions that are idling planters in much of the state when fields should be bustling.

Most of the attention of the flooding effects on Iowa agriculture has been focused on crop damage.

While the ethanol industry was building plants at a rapid pace in the past few years, the attention has turned to improving the efficiency of plants.

While hikers who listen to the musical group Genesis have known the dangers of Giant Hogweed since 1971, the Weed Science Society of America is warning every one of the dangers of the weed.

Excessive rains have led to a flood of farmers at the lobby of one crop insurance office.

JOHNSTON --- State officials worked Monday to coordinate response efforts to flooding throughout Iowa, providing hundreds of thousands of sandbags, pumps, generators and technical assistance to help communities struggling to hold back floodwaters and those already inundated.

Fresno Yosemite International Airport (FYI), the major air transportation center for the City of Fresno and the San Joaquin Valley, along with WorldWater & Solar Technologies Corp. (OTC BB:WWAT.OB), developer and marketer of proprietary high-power solar systems, announced that a

Washington, DC - As American agriculture continues to face a serious and worsening labor crisis, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) urged...

Farmscape for July 16, 2008 (Episode 2907) The Western Feed Grain Development Co-op says the August 1 elimination of kernel visual distinguishability requirements in the registration of wheat will open the door to the development of new high yielding varieties