The gates open at the Iowa State Fairgrounds at noon today in advance of tonight’s appearance by President Trump. He’s expected to offer some details about plans for the year-long celebration of the nation’s 250th anniversary, culminating one year and one day from now. What’s being billed as a “monumental celebration” is planned on July […] View Full Story
Iowa native astronaut Peggy Whitson and her three-member crew are now halfway through their two-week research mission aboard the International Space Station. This is Whitson’s fifth visit to the orbiting laboratory, while her teammates — from India, Hungary and Poland — are all rookies. The 65-year-old from Beaconsfield was asked in an Axiom Space interview […] View Full Story
Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook calls for the likelihood of near- or above-normal temperatures and rainfall across most of the country. Cooler-than-normal conditions will be confined to portions of the central and southern Plains. Meanwhile, drier-than-normal weather should be limited to an area stretching from the Pacific Northwest into Nevada, Utah, and northern […] The post Sub-average temps, with a wetter pattern still ahead for much of the Heartland appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story
Across the Corn Belt, warm, mostly sunny weather is promoting a rapid pace of corn and soybean development, with a portion of both crops moving into the reproductive stage of development. By June 29, corn reaching the silking stage or beyond had reached 19% in Missouri and 9% in Illinois, with progress in other Midwestern […] The post Largely favorable, early-July weather covers much of the Heartland, centered on the Corn Belt appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story
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