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Normally, they are shipped out within a day or so of hatch, anyway, to rivers, backwaters and -- in some cases -- holding ponds to grow larger.

If you were to ask most Iowans what the Iowa bottle bill is about, they would probably answer: It's about bottles, cans and nickels.

The National Weather Service in La Crosse has posted a Winter Storm Watch for parts of northeast Iowa.

When you think of outdoor winter activities, something involving snow or ice probably come to mind.

Ninety percent of Iowa's topsoil and subsoil is still considered short of moisture, despite January precipitation of slightly less than 1 inch that fell on Iowa in the form of 3.6 inches of snow and some rain.