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The Grimes Octagon Barn is an historic building located near West Union in rural Fayette County, Iowa, United States. It was built by Joe Butler in 1880 for M.W. Grimes. The building is an octagon that measures 65 feet (20 m) in diameter. [2] It is one of 14 known 19th-century octagon barns that still exist on an Iowa farm. [3]
Peder and Gjertrud Brugjeld and their six children left the Brugjeld farm near Balestrand, Norway in 1848. They sailed on the Dorothea to the United States. After their arrival, they lived in Dane County, Wisconsin before they settled in Emmet County. Four generations of the Peterson family owned the farm until 1996 when Maynard Peterson ...
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]
Iowa Farmer Today is a weekly newspaper, based in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, that covers Iowa for crop and livestock farmers in the Midwest. Iowa Farmer Today was launched September 8, 1984, [ 1 ] at a time when the tremors of the farm crisis were being felt throughout the Midwest.
Iowa farm sales were second only to California's at $59 billion, the data show. Natasha Wilson checks the pigs on her family farm while doing chores Monday, Feb. 12, 2024 near West Chester, Iowa.
On August 10, 1874, Herbert (known in his childhood as "Bert" or "Bertie") was born as the second child to Jesse and Hulda. Jesse's blacksmith had grown to be very successful, and in 1878, Jesse Hoover sold the practice to open a farm implement store on the corner of Main and Downey Streets. [4]
The 2022 U.S. ag census showed Iowa had lost nearly 586,000 farm acres in the five years since 2017. Over 20 years, Iowa has lost 1.7 million acres of ag land. Land for renewable energy projects ...
The farm is also famous as site of a visit on September 23, 1959, by Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev. [3] The visit was not their first meeting, and it was by Khrushchev's request. Garst's farm had been visited by Soviet officials first in 1955, as an unofficial extra when they were on an organized tour of smaller farms.