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Iowa farmland values hit all-time high despite concerns about higher inflation, interest rates

One year after skyrocketing 29%, the average value of an acre of Iowa farmland jumped another 17%, or $1,660, to $11,411 per acre. The nominal value of an acre of farmland is again higher this year than at any point since Iowa State University began surveying values in 1941. When adjusting for inflation, the 2022...

The DeeZee Spirit By Darrell Zegers (from his book “The Best of DZ” printed July 2002)

I once had the sad experience of having to put my old German Shepherd to sleep. I bought him 13 years before when he was six weeks old. He would fit in a bread box when I brought him home. One and a half years later he weighed 140 pounds and would barely fit into the...

Gloria Billingsley, 77

Gloria Jean Billingsley, 77, of Prairie City, passed away Monday, Dec. 26, 2022, at The Comfort House in Pella. Funeral services were held Friday, Dec. 30, at 10:30 a.m. at Coburn Funeral Home in Prairie City. Burial was at Waveland Cemetery. Memorials may be directed to Hospice of Pella Comfort House and condolences may be...

Irene Roose, 85

Irene Roose, 85, passed away Dec. 26, 2022. Inurnment will be at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 14, at Evergreen Cemetery, Leighton. Memorial service will follow at 1:30 p.m. at First Church, 603 Broadway Street, Pella. Memorials have been designated for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Janice Irene (De Hoedt) Roose was born Oct. 19, 1937,...

Iris Plummer, 75

Iris Plummer, 75, of Sully, went home to be with the Lord a little after 7 p.m. Dec. 30, 2022, at The Comfort House in Pella surrounded by her family. Funeral services were at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023, at Sully Community Church. Interment was in Sully Cemetery. Memorials have been designated for The...

Peyton Wade

Michael and Haley Bruck of Sully are the parents of a son, Peyton Wade, born Dec. 28, 2022. He weighed 7 pounds 11 ounces and measured 21 inches long. His siblings are Lailah age 7, Emery age 5, and Wyatt age 3. Grandparents are Denny and Kris Vos of Sully and John and Janet Bruck of...

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Iowa farmland values hit all-time high despite concerns about higher inflation, interest rates

The DeeZee Spirit By Darrell Zegers (from his book “The Best of DZ” printed July 2002)

Gloria Billingsley, 77

Irene Roose, 85

Iris Plummer, 75

Peyton Wade

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