Winterset

And right now in the Des Moines Metro, we have 44 degrees.

Winterset, 42.

Ames, 40.

Spencer, 39.

Yeah.

So you're, um, practicing in Winterset and Greenfield, is that correct?

Yes.

I'm in, um, Winterset on Monday, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, and I go to Greenfield on Tuesdays, see patients in the morning, do surgeries in the afternoon over there on Tuesdays.

Okay.

So now that you've been practicing in these smaller communities, what have you enjoyed most about coming back to this rural medicine?

That's so nice.

So let's talk about treatment in rural communities.

Gusts tomorrow could get up to around, uh, 35 degrees, so it'll be football weather tomorrow night.

Temperatures right now in Winterset, 57.

Marshalltown, uh, light rain moving in, and 59.

Rain and 48 in Spirit Lake, 55 in Mason City, and here at our studios in West Des Moines, we've got 58.

And those prices have put new acreage out of reach for farmers like Jake Bigelow.

He's a livestock farmer who runs Bigelow Family Farms in Winterset, Iowa.

And Jake says there's not enough land to go around for new farmers or small farmers looking to expand what little they already have.

[gentle music] Farming is, is a way of life, and it's kind of bred into certain people, I feel like.

It's the next generation that's getting the big squeeze because they're, they're not even getting the access to that.

They're coming in and they're saying, "Well, I'm gonna be a hired hand, and that might be all I get to do."

Farmer Jake Bigelow lives in Winterset, Iowa.

Now, there is an interesting difference between the high cost of housing, which most of us are familiar with, and the high cost of land.

She's traveled near and far to speak on the importance of being set up for success.

Currently residing in Winterset, Iowa, Elli and her family enjoy raising purebred Charolais.

Elli, welcome to Cattlemen and Veterinarians.

Thank you.

So that's kind of how ReproScan started.

And then, um, with that foundation, they were up in Lethbridge, Alberta.

In 2018, we ended up moving everything here to Winterset, Iowa, and we've just grown since then.

It just developed as that simple, durable, affordable equipment with, you know, the big, the big thing in this industry, customer service.

And coming up on Saturday, sunny with a high near 86.

Right now in the Des Moines Metro, we have 62 degrees, Des Moines 61, Winterset 59, Ames 60, Spencer 56, and Fairfield 60 degrees.

My name is Aidan Pugh, and that's your central Iowa forecast on the Catholic Morning Show.

Grateful to have you with us this morning here on the Catholic Morning Show.

Right now in the Des Moines Metro, we have 52 degrees.

Winterset, 49.

Ames, 47.

Spencer, 45.

When, uh, we were raising kids, I was at home with my kids for a lot of that time, so part of the frugality was out of necessity since we were living on one income.

And here's Jake in Winterset, Iowa.

He's a 46-year-old farmer.

Sometimes the perspective that the older generation gives or makes me feel is that, "Well, you're just not working hard enough," or, you know, an ungrateful millennial.