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Iowa Farm Science: Volume 2, Issue 5
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Putting a "rider" on that lease can help save your land from costly, wasteful erosion. It's a simple one-page agreement designed to help Iowa tenants and landlords get together on a practical plan for keeping topsoil on the farm- where it belongs. It may also be used for other improvements.
This is the story of the new soybean variety Hawkeye. It is being released this year to growers in the northern half of Iowa and to those of the other Corn Belt states whre it is adapted. You may have heard meager news about Hawkeye through the "grapevine" channel.
Business continues to boom. And with it goes a strong demand for farm prodcuts. The recession that was forecast has not yet come. Both national income and farm income are setting new records.
In a state which offers so much in the way of good food- meat, milk, eggs, vegetables and fruit- it seems odd to ask "Are Iowa children really well fed?"