"Don't put off getting your family business affairs in order." That's the suggestion of Marcena Ver Ploeg and Frankie Schwenk. It really isn't so hard, they say. All family business affairs fall under three headings, and they outline a system for organizing family records and documents.

This month's report of research at your experiment station tells of a search for the causes of barren corn stalks, of tests on diseases of wildlife, of the causes of pheasant losses, and of regional potato-tomato late blight forecasting.

Advances in agricultural technology have helped make Iowa farmers among the most productive in the world today. The average Iowa farmer can now produce food for 30 or more people.

In its 35-year life, the Soil Conservation Experimental Farm in Page County has provided information on water runoff, soil loss, erosion control, and watershed management and production problems of beef cow herds.