Well it has been a while since our last blog. Since our last post we have been non stop, visiting new hosts in Ames and the Davenport which is in the Quad Cities.

In Ames we visited the home of the US Special Olympics, Becker Underwood (a world leader in polymer paints and seed treatment), Iowa State University (including the meat lab), Lincoway Energy (which is a large ethanol plant) , a number of feedlots and the Ames Rotary Club.

We then spent a number of days in Davenport which included visiting the John Deere Harvester Works, the sale barn and meat works and the art gallery and museum which were on the Mississippi River.

The attached photos tell the story...!