By Bob Streit
Columist, Farm News
Bob Streit of Central Iowa Agronomics and Vatché Keuftedjian of Pursanova, Ltd., Inc. will be interviewed on March 30, 2021 at 2pm CST by the Lifestyle Mechanic from the UK. They will be discussing the dangers of glyphosate. How it affects you, your body, the...
Spring has arrived and this year we don’t have to wonder when the snowbanks will start getting smaller. Instead, much of the upper Midwest has been having unseasonably warm weather for three to four weeks and have been able to ditch the warm jackets and start working...
Central Iowa Agronomy & Supply usually puts on a spring meeting each year but due to Covid, things have changed in 2021. The Governor’s mandated meeting protocol and crowd size restriction for holding large meetings has prompted us to hold three small meetings in...
Who would have ever believed any weather forecaster that in the middle of the two- week long period of -15 to -20 below if they had predicted temps in the mid-40s to low 60s of higher in late Feb thru early March? There seemed to be a better chance of seeing 40 below...
I spoke too soon. Just when I mentioned that the winter had been rather mild with no subzero temps that were dangerously cold, as in 15 to 25 below actual temps, one of those polar vortexes broke loose and made a break for the Mexican border and actually gots that far...
Just when we were thinking that Mother Nature was going to let us slip thru the winter without much below zero weather, we are now entering the coldest stretch we have seen to far. The temps across much of the state will drop into the minus 10 to 12 F range. A friend...
It is a new year following a year many of us hope to forget as our way of life was altered on many facets. Life for a high percent of the populace changed as the media focused 1,000 % of their time on creating fear and criticizing state and national leaders when they...
The last month of the year is nearing the end and then it’s on to 2021. We will be glad to see it over with. From the drought and the Derecho that hurt many towns, buildings, crops and trees, not seeing another big windstorm like that in our lifetimes could be okay....
The last month of the year is here as I sit writing this article. Dec, 7th is commemorated each year as it marks the anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. It was the event that pulled our country into WW2, which they had hoped to avoid. The blatant, dawn...
Sunday was November 22nd, the 57th anniversary of the assassination of JFK. I know that every person who were in any grade at school, even kindergarteners, remembers that day and of being told what had happened in Dallas early that afternoon. When discussing it with...