Cresco News

Iowa corn is standing tall, and tasseling has begun in some fields, but that growing prowess has caused corn prices to fall to a two-year low.

It is obviously summer and fairs are in the air! Almost every community has one in or near their town.

Plantpeddler, a Cresco greenhouse company, has been named Renew Rural Iowa entrepreneur of the month, awarded by Iowa Farm Bureau Federation.

A winner is announced for the Bullshipper Memorial Golf Tournament scholarship. Rueben Sprung of Riceville teen is the recipient of a $400 scholarship from Saturday's first ever, tournament held in Elma.

Norman Borlaug's childhood home seems to be a typical farm. But during the summer it provides a unique internship for Iowa State University students.

Irvin 'Irv' McCarville, 81, of Marion, died Tuesday, June 23, 2009, at his home following a courageous battle with lymphoma.

"What is the difference between 'damp' and 'humid'?" The reason that question is being asked in Decorah is that the summer has started out either 'damp' or 'humid,' depending on your point of view.

Thousands of high school seniors will be graduating this May, and some of those graduating classes are bound to have twins in them, but one local school is graduating a remarkable number of twins.

Genetically, it's rare to be a twin, but in Cresco seeing double seems a bit more common.

Next Saturday, May 9, the Sixth Annual Hoover-Wallace Dinner will raise money for the World Food Prize's Borlaug-Ruan International Internship Program, which has sent more than 100 Iowa high school students on food-related research assignments around the world.

An Iowa business that delivers organic produce to its customers has crossed the state border and expanded into Rochester.

Mason City, IA As unemployment climbs it seems those standby jobs are even hard to come by.

Local nursing homes would get more money under bill approved by Iowa Senate Posted: Monday, April 20th, 2009 State Senator Mary Jo Wilhelm of Cresco is praising a bill approved by the Iowa Senate that would mean additional money for Winneshiek County nursing homes.

There's been a changing of the guard at The Ankeny Klothing Exchange , the volunteer project of the Community Education Advisory Council, which makes available free clothing to those in need.

Democratic lawmakers say the state will take in no extra money under their income tax proposal.

CRESCO, Iowa -- The funeral for Lorna M. DeVries will be at 2 p.m. Friday at the United Methodist Church in Chester, Iowa, with Rev.

There is a small town in Northeastern Iowa named Cresco. By small I mean roughly 3,750 people.

Tri-County Electric Cooperative CEO Brian Krambeer is currently working as interim CEO at neighboring Hawkeye REC of Cresco, Iowa.

He was one of those who laid the groundwork of the so-called Green Revolution, the agricultural technological advance that promised to alleviate world hunger.

Amid crisis, is there a grand opportunity for Iowa? The Register posed that question to Iowa's former governors, academic experts and distinguished thinkers - Iowans and former Iowans.