Le Mars Daily Sentinel (Newspaper) - March 24, 2005, Le Mars, Iowa at the CLASS C Le Mars man charged with burglary An investigation into the March 21 burglary of a Le Mars home resulted in an arrest and the recovery of a large amount of Joshua 22, 121 Fourth St. was according to Le Mars Police Department on charges third degree a Class D third degree an aggravated He was booked into the Plymouth County Jail and was still listed there as of Wednesday Jackson was identified as a suspect following an investigation into a burglary at the home of Jack 34 1/2 Third Ave. S.E. Officers were dispatched at 11:45 p.m. Monday to which he said had been burglarized earlier in the evening and cash Officers located Jackson at a Le Mars business downtown at 1:30 a.m. He was taken to the station and questioned about the burglary and the stolen money which was recovered before he was arrested on the KEYSTONE AVENUE County gets only one bid By Sue Morris Staff Plymouth County will award a contract for grading Keystone Avenue to the highest bid received - it was also the since there was only one company submitting a Mathers Construction Company of Correctionville bid for the three-mile project between Iowa Highway 3 and County Road west of Le Work is expected to start explained county with a 100-day completion Rohe told supervisors the bid was since he had upped the project estimate after delays last Grading in 2005 will be followed by paving the road in 2006, when the Highway 60/75 bypass will be Keystone Avenue and 200th Street will be the site of the new corporate owned by the Le Mars Business Initiative Road work will start in that where sections will be Part of improvements will be paid by a million RISE grant from ' the state for roads around the economic development COUNTY ZONING Complaints made about rural business By Sue Morris Staff A business selling firewood will be brought back for public hearing next month by the Plymouth County zoning been lots of Alan zoning administrator told board members at Monday's Neighbors of Josh and Peggy 22958 Highway 3, have cited concerns about the appearance caused by the woodpiles along the property by the They have also listed the risk of fire and the possibility of animals and insects among the wood See on A3 CLIMATE & CROP TRENDS Is it An Iowa State climatologist agronomist adds together the pluses and minuses of weather and history to predict that yields will likely be above trend for corn and soybeans in 2005 Dr. Taylor explains about Samuel a 19th Century farmer who published the price risk cycle in 1885. A relationship exists between Farmer price risk and crop according to The Benner cycle indicates that 2005-2010 will be a higher risk photo by Marsha L By Marsha L. Melnichak News editor How does one forecast crop yields in Dr. climatologist and water in the Gulf of Nino currents off 1855 farmer with a penchant for Ana effect in weather and its variations from in South fog in patterns in Oregon and Colorado to mention New Arkansas and the Ohio River shifts in the moisture better than in the and lack of frost in cycle in springs and dry When he stirs his results all he suggests for 2005 are expected to exceed the trend by 2 percent 42 nationally for soybean and 145 for According to who spoke at the Le Mars Area Chamber of Commerce ag luncheon March 23, conditions are seldom such that highly reliable forecasts are also according to weather indicators have proved useful in anticipating yield above and below the trend usually reliable to plus or minus 5 percent of actual With that in he predicts yields could be about 2 percent above last He also predicts that corn and soybean prices are higher now than will be at he area farmers should consider in making their selling can be managed because it has he can manage anything with What is El El Nino is the name given to the occasional development of warm ocean surface waters along the coast of Ecuador and When this warming occurs the usual upwelling of nutrient rich deep ocean water is significantly El Nino normally occurs around Christmas and lasts usually for a few weeks to a few Sometimes an extremely warm event can develop that lasts for much longer time In the 1990s, strong El Ninos developed in 1991 and lasted until 1995, and from fall 1997 to spring 1998. the least controllable of the factors that determine crop yield - but a risk that can be Taylor Taylor told his Le Mars audience that last year's high yields were no surprise to Extension were within a quarter bushel of where we drew the line in 94," he Taylor said yield trend is the basic indicator of production risk and that historical yield is the best of future yield and Widespread drought not likely in 2005 By Marsha L. Melnichak News editor are no indicators this of widespread drought developing in the Corn Belt for 2005," Dr. Taylor told a Le Mars audience March 23. a climatologist and agronomist for Iowa State University said the Corn Belt drought has followed an apparent 19-year cycle for 200 years and is transitioning into the high-risk 6-year period of that 19-year According to the Corn Belt historically has two droughts during the six years the 19-year which is a one in three in 3) risk of drought for any given The previous 12 years the 19) had a historical drought risk of one in 12. 400 percent increase in historical drought risk makes modification of risk management procedures according to El Nino also plays a factor in Taylor said there is no record of widespread drought during an El which means the historical drought risk is less than 1 in 3 2005 and 2010) if El Nino is in An El Nino strength occurred in he but it could be because of tropical storms rather than the ocean conditions usually associated with a classic El As the El Nino may not He wrote in an introduction for his audience at the Le Mars Convention are some indicators of increased crop production but there is no reason to assume that 2005 will be the wide-spread drought of the