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In 1991 and 1992, the Upper Deck Company sponsored a celebrity game at the field. Executive producer Tony Loiacono, who later received the key to the city, brought Hall of Famers like Bob Gibson, Reggie Jackson and Bob Feller to take on Hollywood stars like Kelsey Grammer and Meat Loaf in a charity game. The two games raised over $100,000 for ...
The historic district is 1.2 acres (0.49 ha). The Feller family farm was once 350 acres (140 ha) but most of it has been sold to other farmers and the current farm is 40 acres (16 ha). [3] Feller sold the farmstead in 1955 and it is currently owned by Dr. Jose Angel since about 1994. [4] [5]
The original house and barn are still on the fairground's property. Other structures from the farm survived into the late 1940s when they were torn down. In 1886 the Iowa Legislature and the city of Des Moines appropriated funds and the first buildings were built. They were frame buildings that used boards and battens as exterior wall covering.
The Iowa Department of Agriculture said about 8,400 game bird pheasants, 160 chickens and 16 peafowl were on the Kossuth County farm where the infections with highly pathogenic avian influenza ...
The "Field of Dreams" near Dyersville, Iowa, has been a tourist attraction for years. It hosted an MLB game two years in a row, starting in 2021.
A local family farm was recently recognized with a prestigious honor. Sandwiched between new housing developments is Colony Acres Family Farm, 250 acres of urban farmland run by Dean and Katie Colony.
Iowa Select Farms This page was last edited on 23 December 2023, at 23:37 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...
In 2022, about 2,430 Iowa farms were selling directly to consumers ,with $30.1 million in sales, a 51% hike from 2017, the USDA said. Still, it was a small slice of the $43.9 billion Iowans ...