It may not be Iowa chestnuts roasting over the open fire this year
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10/18/2019
It may be harvest season, but Iowa’s chestnut trees don’t have much to offer as a year of wet weather decimated the crop.
Tom Wahl of Red Fern Farm in Louisa County has about a thousand chestnut trees which usually produce a lucrative crop on his diverse farm. This year, his chestnut trees produced nothing and a few of his trees, in the wettest soil, died. Wahl is confident things will average out next year.
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