GEORGE, IOWA — Wind storms in Iowa and South Dakota on July 28 damage to communities and farms. “I was grinding feed that evening, and just before dark got done with chores and went in the house and ...
Teenagers with hand-lettered signs and pickup trucks packed with stacks of sweet corn are being seen on street corners in many Iowa cities as we’re smack dab in the middle of prime time for that ...
Fresh, locally-grown sweet corn is one of the true pleasures of an Iowa summer. On this Horticulture Day episode of Talk of Iowa, host Charity Nebbe is joined by Dan Fillius, horticulture specialist ...
Sweet corn blown down on Gary Knight's farm. (KCRG TV photo) Trees weren’t the only thing knocked down by the derecho that blew through Iowa last week. Gary Knight sells sweet corn at stands in Cedar ...
Those three words are music to the ears of most Cedar Valley residents. One of the summer’s best – and most anticipated – perks, bushels of yellow gold are showing up at farmers’ markets, on street ...
WATERLOO -- The Waterloo Center for the Arts and RiverLoop Public Market will present the second annual Iowa Sweet Corn Festival from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Aug. 8 at the RiverLoop Expo Plaza, downtown ...
BOONE, Iowa (AP) -- Sweet as a freshly picked strawberry and messy as a perfectly ripened peach, sweet corn has hit the market. While large commercial production has declined in Iowa, horticultural ...
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) -- It's a little late, but Iowa sweet corn has arrived. The ears, which usually arrive by July 4th, were delayed by a rough growing season -- a cold spring followed by wet ...