CLARENCE, Mo. --- A woman leans out the farmhouse door yelling, "Are you selling it? Because there is a guy on the phone who wants to buy it."

FLOYD --- Pam Johnson says new advances in corn-trait technology will bring about savings to companies and corn growers.

BOONE --- USDA Secretary Ed Schafer confirmed what many farmers had suspected this summer --- rules for the 2008 farm bill are unlikely to be completed before the Bush administration leaves office in January.

SPENCER) --- If you visit the Clay County Fair Website (http://www.claycountyfair.com), you will know exactly how many days, hours, minutes and even seconds there are left until the gates to the 2008 Clay County Fair swing open.

BOONE --- Sustainability has become mainstream and is moving from South America to North America.

As the temperature hangs around 85 degrees, officials are already predicting higher natural gas prices for the upcoming winter heating season.

DES MOINES (AP) --- Iowa labor officials on Aug. 22 accused meatpacking plant Agriprocessors with 31 new and repeat safety violations.

ZEARING (AP) --- A manmade "forest" of wind turbines is rising in a roughly 48-square-mile area between Zearing and Colo.

It's no secret farmland rental rates jumped this past year. The 2008 Iowa cash rent survey proves the point, showing a historically large jump from a statewide average of $150 per acre to $177/acre.

Billed as "The World Series of Swine Shows," the NBS showcases many of the top breeding boars and foundation females in the country, and all eight major breeds, according to a news release.

DES MOINES (AP) — State legislators don't seem eager to wade back into the hot-button issue of regulating giant livestock production centers despite pleas from environmental officials for help.

DES MOINES (AP) --- A Dallas County farmer plans to appeal the decision of a panel that denied him permits for two large hog confinements.

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.

Gave him back to the dirt from which he came. Earlier his family and neighbors walk by, Looking at memories of a simple man's life. A table of photos, toy tractors and cards, Telling the story of life on the

Monte Shaw said what many ethanol industry leaders were thinking when the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced this past week it was denying a request from Texas Gov. Rick Perry for a waiver from the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS).

A lawsuit by the state alleges a Jesup convenience store owner fraudulently sold less-expensive E85 fuel labeled as regular unleaded and 10-percent ethanol blends at two Northeast Iowa convenience stores.

PELLA --- The new farm bill could be a factor for landlords trying to decide whether to change tenants this summer and fall.

Flooding earlier this growing season prompted concerns about having enough corn to supply the market for livestock, ethanol, exports and other markets.

ST. LOUIS (AP) --- Monsanto Co. is unloading a controversy with its $300 million sale of the Posilac cow hormone to drug maker Eli Lilly & Co. Posilac was never been a big part of Monsanto's future growth plans, but

Two significant deadlines are looming for crop-protection assistance, the Farm Service Agency reminds farmers.