July 5, 2013: This ear of corn on the Coon Rapids welcome sign on Iowa Highway 141 slowly rotates.
Coon Rapids is best known for being the site of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev’s visit to Iowa in 1959. Farmer and seed corn developer Roswell Garst invited him to come. There was a 50th anniversary celebration of the trip in 2009.
This harvest is the last for Garst brand seed. Syngenta is rolling it into Golden Harvest.