Offhand, you'd expect improved farms- farms with buildings- to rent for more than unimproved farms- farms without buildings. But this doesn't seem to be true.

If corn storage is a problem on your farm or if you're confronted with scarce labor and high wages, you may be interested in new labor-saving machinery- machinery which may lower harvesting and storing costs.

Using improved crop varieties is one of the quickest and most effective methods to increase crop production when other recommended farming practices are followed. Plant breeders, plant pathologists, entomologists and other members of the Argricultural Experiment Station staff are continuinally working to develop crop varieties for Iowa.

Iowa farmers will have a lot of corn on hand this fall. So will farmers in the other Corn Belt states. All told, around 800 million bushels of old-crop corn will be carried over.