Saturday, 24 November 2012

Iowa farmers will be ‘living rainfall to rainfall’

E. Iowa grave digger woes a sign of things to come for spring

If you want to know how dry the subsoil is, ask a grave digger. “It’s dry as a bone once you get below 6 inches,” said Carl Thoresen, superintendent at Oak Hill Cemetery in Cedar Rapids. Thomas Higgins of Independence, a grave digger for 28 years, said he’s finding moisture to 2 1/2 feet in [...]

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