Farmscape for July 3, 2008 (Episode 2895) Keystone Agricultural Producers is encouraging the Manitoba government to look to Europe for strategies to address concerns related to nutrient loading issues on Lake Winnipeg. Last month, as part of his trip to

Iowa Farmer Today Publisher Steve DeWitt is a winner of Greene County's 2008 Bell Tower of Fame Award.

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.

DELHI --- Larry Shover has been milking cows most of his life and has always believed Iowa is the perfect place for a small dairy operation.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

ST. JOSEPH, MO. --- While the merits of using corn for food and fuel are being debated, many ethanol plants are making both.

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.

COLLINS --- While consumers debate whether ethanol and high grain prices are forcing food prices higher, Dave Struthers is stuck debating a more-basic point --- whether high grain prices and high farm input prices are making farming profitable.

The nation may grow billions of bushels of corn each year, but only about 10 percent of that field corn reaches the consumer's cupboard.

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

ROCK VALLEY --- Kent Pruismann feeds cattle, contract finishes hogs and runs a commercial cow herd on his Northwest Iowa farm.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) --- Floodwaters receding into the Mississippi River and its tributaries will suck billions of dollars out of the Midwest's economy, though probably not as much as the 1993 flooding that devastated the region.

FORT DODGE --- Donald Heck can't tell you the perfect mix of biodiesel for a tractor or farm truck.

DES MOINES (AP) --- An international program that helps feed children throughout the world has landed two former U.S. senators and presidential candidates the 2008 World Food Prize.