Abundance Of Rain Interrupts Planting Season

JIM OFFNER jim.offner@wcfcourier.com, The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier
Wed, 05/04/2016 - 1:00pm

DES MOINES – The rainiest week of the young planting season slowed fieldwork down considerably last week, state agriculture officials said.

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