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2026 Iowa Grain Harvest webinar is Sept. 21

AMES — The Iowa State University Extension and Outreach Agriculture and Biosystems Engineering team will hold the 2026 Iowa Grain Harvest webinar at noon on Sept. 21. Planned for grain producers and anyone with an interest in this fall’s grain harvest in Iowa, the webinar will feature segments discussing grain quality concerns and potential issues, harvest losses and equipment set up and planning for successful grain storage. Gretchen Mosher, professor of agricultural and biosystems engineering at Iowa State who leads the Grain Testing Laboratory, will explore grain quality ...

Editorial roundup: The Washington Post says Trump’s inflation plan is to extort the Fed

President Donald Trump’s preferred monetary policy is simple. Is the economy sluggish? Cut interest rates. Is it heating up? Also cut interest rates. Now there’s a new addendum: If his handpicked Federal Reserve chair won’t play ball, hold the economy hostage. At least, that’s what Trump threatened on Friday on Truth Social. He wrote that if the Fed doesn’t “get smart” and lower rates, he will halt trade entirely with any country that maintains a trade deficit with the United States. That would include China, Mexico, Canada, Vietnam, South Korea and dozens of others — in ...

COMMUNITY CALENDAR

Sept. 12 Marshalltown Garden Club Plant Sale, Marshall County Farm Bureau, 9 a.m. to Noon Farmers Market - Cartwright Downtown Farmers Market, 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Storytime with Maddux Bennett, Gilman Public Library, Gilman, 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Free Kids' Art Class, Hope United Methodist Church 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. The Write Club, Marshalltown Public Library, 1:15 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. Author Visit with Sara Jordan-Heintz, Marshalltown Public Library, 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. MCT Presents: "110 Stories" by Sara Tuft, Orpheum Black Box Theater, 220 E. Main St., 7 p.m. to 9 ...

CORRECTION

Time CORRECTION on "The Iowa Plays" on Oct. 10 at Homestead Village Church Museum. Doors will open at 2:30 p.m., with the performance beginning at 3:00 p.m.

ALMANAC

LOCAL GRAINS The prices paid for cash grain in central Iowa at the close of trade on Sept. 11, 2026. Corn: $4.80 - 4.81 Soybeans: $12.46 - 12.48 Weather Reporting Guidelines Temperatures Yesterday's High 81 Yesterday's Low 58 Last High 84 Last Low 54 Precipitation Through 7 a.m. 0.00 inches Year-to-date 35.31 inches Last year-to-date 33.97 inches Barometer Today at 4:00 p.m. 29.87 Daylight Sunrise Tomorrow 6:49 a.m. Sunset Tomorrow 7:25 p.m. River Level Yesterday at 4 p.m. 9.79 ft. (flood stage is 18 feet for low-lying areas of Marshall County.)

The best of us: 25 years later, reflecting on windows of hope

For those who remember the way savagery shattered serenity on Sept. 11, 2001, the last 25 years haven't dimmed the memory of the evil that occurred that day. One remembers the photos of the missing, murdered plastered on Manhattan's buildings and street poles and The New York Times obituaries -- bunches each day -- of those pulverized in the wreckage. One remembers the footage of some in the Middle East honking cars, distributing sweets and firing guns into the air, celebrating the killing of Americans. But you also remember the breathtaking heroism of the first responders, so many of ...