Kossuth County
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Oct 16, 2026
Mark CampbellHOST
And, uh, what parish do you belong to, uh, there, Deacon?
David PentonGUEST
Yes, I belong to or minister at Divine Mercy Parish, uh, all of Kossuth County and West Bend, so we have seven churches in our parish.
Mark CampbellHOST
Wow.
David PentonGUEST
Along with being a deacon, I am the coordinator of diaconate formation here in the diocese.
Deacon David PentonGUEST
Parish.
Deacon David PentonGUEST
Yes, I belong to or minister at Divine Mercy Parish, uh, all of Kossuth County and West Bend.
Deacon David PentonGUEST
So we have seven churches in our parish.
Deacon Mark CampbellHOST
Wow.
Leisa FoxHOST
[instrumental music] Welcome to the Made in Iowa Podcast, presented by Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield.
Leisa FoxHOST
I'm your host, Leisa Fox, and recently I spent two days in Kossuth County interviewing amazing manufacturers in the area.
Leisa FoxHOST
I hope you enjoy the conversations as much as I did.
Leisa FoxHOST
[whooshing visual effect] Mike Lloyd, CEO of Aluma Trailers.
Leisa FoxHOST
Welcome to the studio.
Leisa FoxHOST
We are recording from Iowa Lakes Community College in the Teets Entrepreneurial Center.
Leisa FoxHOST
I wanna thank Kossuth County Economic Development, Todd Ferris, uh, who coordinated a two-day festival of manufacturing [laughs] here in Algona and beyond.
Leisa FoxHOST
You have 100 employees in Bancroft, and your town population is what in Bancroft?
Leisa FoxHOST
I'm your host, Leisa Fox.
Leisa FoxHOST
And recently I spent two days in Kossuth County interviewing amazing manufacturers in the area.
Leisa FoxHOST
I hope you enjoy the conversations as much as I did.
Leisa FoxHOST
Mike Lloyd, CEO of Illuma Trailers.
Leisa FoxHOST
Welcome to the studio.
Leisa FoxHOST
We are recording from Iowa Lakes Community College in the Tietz Entrepreneurial Center.
Leisa FoxHOST
I want to thank Kossuth County Economic Development, Todd Ferris, who coordinated a two-day festival of manufacturing here in Algona and beyond.
Leisa FoxHOST
You have 100 employees in Bancroft, and your town population is what in Bancroft?
Sam DenbyNARRATOR
Their economy is the fuels that envelop them, is the crops they grow, and so their spacing is dictated by the amount of people that these fields that separate them can reasonably provide for financially.
Sam DenbyNARRATOR
974 of these squares combined represent Kossuth County.
Sam DenbyNARRATOR
Of those, a full 355 are dedicated to the cultivation of soybean, while even more, 475, are used to grow corn.
Sam DenbyNARRATOR
Therefore, this county, as large as the country of Luxembourg, uses some 85% of its area for the singular purpose of growing these two crops.
Sam DenbyNARRATOR
The reason why is because Kossuth County and its neighbors are powerhouses in the world of agriculture—crucial food production resources not only for Iowa, not only for the United States, not only even just for North America, but for the entire world.
Sam DenbyNARRATOR
For a farmer living and working, say, here, a four-mile drive outside of Bancroft on an average-sized farm, the process of feeding the globe, supporting the American economy, powering the local community, and providing for their own families starts anew every spring, when they sit down at the kitchen table, flip to April in their calendar, and decide exactly when and exactly what they're going to plant.
Sam DenbyNARRATOR
Now, of the 23,195,000 acres planted in Iowa in 2021, 23 million acres were filled with soybean or corn.
Leisa FoxHOST
[upbeat music] Welcome to the Made in Iowa Podcast, presented by Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield.
Leisa FoxHOST
I'm your host, Leisa Fox, and recently I spent two days in Kossuth County interviewing amazing manufacturers in the area.
Leisa FoxHOST
I hope you enjoy the conversations as much as I did.
Leisa FoxHOST
Darin Massner is the CEO of Country Maid, and there was a time in my life that there was a very little short time that I didn't have Country Maid in my freezer [laughs].
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Leisa FoxHOST
welcome to the made in iowa podcast presented by wellmark blue cross and blue shield i'm your host lisa fox and recently i spent two days in kossuth county interviewing amazing manufacturers in the area i hope you enjoy the conversations as much as i did darren massner is the ceo of country made and there was a time in my life that there was a very little short time that I didn't have country made in my freezer.
Leisa FoxHOST
I had people coming to my door all the time selling for fundraisers.
Leisa FoxHOST
And I got the great opportunity to come to West Bend, Iowa yesterday and tour your amazing facility.
MoHOST
It's very difficult to understand where the yields are landing.
MoHOST
But, you know, that northwest, Kossuth County, central, north central Iowa, are very big producing corn regions and from corn.
MoHOST
clients of ours in that area it's average at best they were looking for 240 250 they're getting 200 so that what I'm trying to get is these yields in Iowa and Illinois for both corn and beans are holding up the average yield and I'm hearing better results out of beans, but what I don't understand is why did the corn yield drop in September to 178.5, but yet the bean yield increased 52.8 by 0.1? I don't think weather was that ideal for soybeans, so we'll have to wait and see.
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