(Radio Iowa) — The 2019 Iowa legislative session will likely end this weekend — and many lawmakers are farmers, itching to get out of Des Moines and into their fields. Senator Tom Costello of Imogene says the soil is warm enough for planting in southwest Iowa. “I’ve got about 250 acres of soybeans I need to get planted sometime here,” Costello says.

Representative Ross Paustian of Walcott farms 15-hundred acres of cropland with his son. “Hasn’t been dry enough to plant and…it was too windy to spray, so we’re not getting anything done,” Paustian says, “so I hope to be home — Saturday?” Senator Annette Sweeney says it’s calving season on her farm near Alden.  “It’s always exciting every time you see a new baby calf,” Sweeney says. “During the really bad and cold weather, we started calving then, so it’ll be great to go home and see those calves on green pastures and I can’t wait.”

The 2020 legislative session will begin 262 days from now, on Monday, January 13th.