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Fall allergens and pollen can be especially problematic for individuals during harvest season. Is there a treatment? On page 10A, read about an upcoming presentation at Greater Regional Medical Center.
PLAYOFF BERTH Creston/O-M football team earns home playoff berth with 35-20 victory over Harlan. The win marks only the program’s fifth win over Harlan.
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USDA ups expected record corn harvest DES MOINES (AP) — The expected record corn and soybean harvest will be slightly bigger than previously estimated, the result of late summer warmth that helped fill cornstalks with ears and soybean plants with bean pods, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Friday. Farmers are expected to bring in 14.5 billion bushels of corn, up 80 million bushels from the September estimate. It’s the third consecutive month the USDA has increased its estimate of the corn harvest as favorable weather helped the crops develop. And soybean farmers will harvest an estimated 3.93 billion bushels, up 14 million bushels from last month’s estimate. ■ Farmers It’ll be a banner year for are expected corn, with farmers expected to harvest a national average to harvest of 174.2 bushels per acre, a a national significant increase over the average of record of 169 set in 2009. Though the USDA lowered 174.2 bushthe number of acres planted els per acre, by 1 percent to 90.9 million a significant acres, the increased yield pushed the total expected increase over harvest higher. the record Twenty-two states expect of 169 set in a record high corn yield for 2014, and 10 states will set 2009. a benchmark for number of ears, including Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, and Ohio. Sixty percent of the corn crop was mature at the end of September, 10 percentage points behind the five-year average, but only 12 percent of the nation’s crop was harvested because while the crops are in good shape they were planted late and aren’t quite fully mature. That’s slightly ahead of last year but 11 percentage points behind the five-year average. Soybean farmers will see records fall, too, as 12 states will set new yield benchmarks, including Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio. The national average yield was boosted to 47.1 bushels per acre, up from the record of 44 set in 2009. Just 10 percent of soybeans have been harvested, seven percentage points behind normal in most places, and more than 10 percentage points behind in Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska and the Dakotas.
CNA photo by JAKE WADDINGHAM
Fall fishing: A fisherman navigates his boat near the western shoreline of Twelve Mile Lake where the trees provided a colorful backdrop Friday afternoon.
Playback Movies open on Elm St. By SARAH BROWN
CNA staff reporter sbrown@crestonne.com
The former Video Escape, a video store with an eclectic mix of movies, reopened Oct. 2 under the moniker Playback Movie Rentals. The store, 202 N. Elm St., is now owned by Brandi Garner and co-managed by her husband Lucas Smith, both of Creston. T h e business, which has c h a n g e d Smith ownership a number of times over recent years, holds a special p l a c e in Garner and Garner Smith’s heart. “This is the place I used to rent from when I was a kid,” Smith said. Smith, 33, said he remembers visiting the video store at
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Playback Movie Rentals, 202 N. Elm St., offers eight genres of movies for the whole family. The store also features a childrens’ room so that children can play while parents browse more than 4,000 titles.
its former location on Russell Street and renting laser discs with his parents when he was six years old. Today, Playback Movie Rentals offers about 4,000 titles on DVD, which are categorized into the following genres: family, kids, action, drama, horror, science fiction, comedy and classics. The bankruptcy of Blockbuster and limited selection of Red Box have actually
been beneficial to Garner and Smith. Smith said it was their inability to find a new release at two Red Box rental locations in Creston that lead Garner to contact Video Escape and ultimately purchase the business when she learned it was no longer operating. “When we went to go look at it, six people came by to see if it was open,” Smith said. “It was a good sign.”
At Playback Movie Rentals, customers can expect to pay $3 per day for a new release or $1 a day for all others. Overstock of videos are available for purchase and range from $3 a piece to four for $10, unless indicated otherwise. Playback Movie Rentals is open 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday to Thursday, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday.
I-35 south of Des Moines to close Beekeepers focus on awareness overnights OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Beekeepers in Iowa and Nebraska are joining a national movement to encourage farmers and gardeners to avoid new pesticides which kill bees and to promote the health of bees as integral to food production. It’s just one priority of a group of beekeepers who hope to launch a public awareness campaign to save bees, the Omaha World-Herald reported Sunday. They hope to capitalize on the trend of consumers be-
coming more interested in buying food from local producers and desiring more information about how food is grown. “People started to care more about being more conscious about the earth,” said Todd Jensen, secretary of the Nebraska Beekeepers Association and a part-time beekeeper from Lincoln. “It seems like today, there’s a lot more community-based support.” Bee enthusiasts said honeybees need help as they face
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two big threats to their survival: pesticides and disease. Chris Ruhaak, who lives in Council Bluffs, is one of about 1,500 beekeepers in Iowa. “Through our efforts, we could help them, but if we don’t, they all could die,” Ruhaak said. “As beekeepers, we do what we can to nurture them and keep them as healthy as possible.” Keeping bees healthy is something that should matter to everyone, beekeepers say, because soybeans, strawberries, asparagus, carrots,
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apples, almonds and olives, to name a few rely on pollination by bees. Ruhaak, Jensen and other beekeepers say they hope that more interest in honeybees and the local honey they produce will help keep them alive. Beekeepers encourage farmers, gardeners and other plant growers to avoid using a fairly new family of pesticides called neonicotinoids, which kill bees along with the nuisance insects for which they were designed.
DES MOINES (AP) — Motorists are being warned that part of Interstate 35 just south of Des Moines will be closing overnight for the next several days. Des Moines television station KCCI reports that the stretch will be closed starting at 6 p.m. Sunday until 6 a.m. the following morning. It’s expected to be closed again overnight Monday and Tuesday. The Iowa Department of Transportation says the closures will allow crews to demolish a bridge over the interstate at Warren County Road G14, at exit 65. The work is planned at night to limit disruption for drivers. A detour is planned using the on- and off-ramps at the Warren County Road G14 interchange.
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