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It’s hard to imagine a place more bucolic than the rural farming communities clustered around Kalona, Iowa — the kind of place that for generations has embodied conservative, blue-collar values woven throughout rural America. Nestled in the gently rolling...

FRYTOWN, Iowa — Warren McKenna’s Jeep SUV glides past stubbled farm fields, kicking up dust and fresh snow where only weeks ago a bumper crop of corn and soybeans filled the horizon. Among the Amish and Mennonite families who have farmed this part of...

dendroica: Johnson County’s Field of Beams For the last five years, tucked away in southwest Johnson County in the unincorporated community of Frytown, Farmers Electric Cooperative has been one of the [Iowa’s] leading proponents of solar...

State, local and national officials celebrated the opening of Iowa’s largest solar farm today. The farm is located in eastern Iowa about 11 miles south of Iowa City and six miles north of Kalona. Farmers Electric Cooperative built the facility and general...

Nationwide, less than one percent of our electricity currently comes from solar. But the Farmers Electric Cooperative in Kalona, Iowa is doing more … a lot more! MCKENNA: “Currently we purchase locally 10 percent of our power through solar.” That’s ...