Today it is a farm event that easily doubles the size of this Midwestern city. But when it began back in 1950, they simply wanted to get a few old threshing machines here for a working display…
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There’s plenty of fertile farmland along the Mississippi River at Muscatine, Iowa, but a century ago, this city was known for something else…
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The 4-H Program is now over a century old and many people recognize the familiar green clover that symbolizes those well-known clubs. But the story behind why 4-H has a clover and exactly what it means is a feature that not many people have heard…
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They were prisoners of war, yet they were paid for their work; many of them forged friendships with the locals that would last for the rest of their lives….
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One news anchored reported that this man may be responsible for saving more lives than anyone in the 20th Century. With the passing of Norman Borlaug earlier this week, we thought it would be appropriate to look back to an interview we did with him nearly 10 years ago…
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