No More Kitty LitterI got tired of buying cat litter. To top that, I pay our garbage company to take my recyclables. I decided to shred all important papers and also some of the newspapers we recycle anyway. For awhile, I mixed the shredded paper with the cat litter to get our cats used to ...
BySenator Charles GrassleyQ: What can Iowans do to help increase farm safety?A: National Farm Safety and Health Week is September 20-26, and provides an excellent opportunity to promote and inform the general public about issues related to farm safety right as the harvest season begins. ...
Dear EditorSeptember is honeybee month! Bees give us delicious honey. People might think honey is all they contribute to our lives. However, honeybees are very important to everyone, Honeybees are pollinators and they enable plants to produce fruits and nuts by carrying pollen from one plant ...
Who knew that sitting in a nice, dry car in a rainstorm, watching people flee from the parking lot, would be so entertaining? My husband and I wanted to see a movie one evening. Through a strange series of events that involved a DVD return, a box of Cheerios, and some ink cartridges, we ...
$18 Million Available for Value-Added Producer GrantsLyons, NE - The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently announced that $18 million is available for the Value-Added Producer Grant (VAPG) program. The deadline to apply is November 30, 2009.Agricultural producers, businesses owned by a ...
Cool CoffeeWhenever there is leftover coffee in the summer, I try to freeze it in an ice cube tray. When I make iced coffee (usually from leftover coffee), I have coffee ice cubes that won't water down my coffee and help it taste that much better. I stole that trick from an expensive espresso ...
ByLaura SynderFrom all accounts, when I was a little girl, I was, like most little girls, made of sugar and spice and everything nice. Of course, when I became a teenager, I was made of sarcasm, drama, and everything hormonal. You tend to mellow out a tad after all of your friends abandon ...
DES MOINES Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey today commented on the Iowa Crops and Weather report released by the USDA National Agricultural Statistical Service. The report is released weekly from April through October. "The persistent cool weather remains a concern as development ...
Des Moines-After only one year, a pilot program designed to measure patient quality of care shows significant clinical outcomes and health care cost reductions. The Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield 2008 pilot was a quality improvement program for Iowa and South Dakota physical medicine ...
The Trash Tells Secrets!Look in your garbage to see what you are throwing out. I realized I was throwing away a lot of paper towels. So I bought a bunch of white wash clothes and use those to clean. I can throw them in with any load of laundry, and I line dry them. The same was true with ...