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Iowa early News Headlines: Tue., 6/11/2019

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June 11th, 2019 by Ric Hanson

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:40 a.m. CDT

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — President Donald Trump and Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden are both spending Tuesday in Iowa. Trump begins his trip in Council Bluffs to speak at Southwest Iowa Renewable Energy, which produces and sells the corn-based fuel additive ethanol. He will later address an Iowa GOP dinner in Des Moines. Biden is coming to Iowa two days after nearly 20 Democratic rivals were in Iowa for a state party dinner. Several took veiled shots at his absence.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Iowa’s court system has blocked public access to online court records from Gov. Kim Reynolds’ 2000 drunk driving arrest, saying they inadvertently exposed her sensitive personal information. The records contained the governor’s Social Security number, driver’s license number and other information that should not have been public under court rules. After an inquiry last week, the judicial branch removed public access to the files after determining they should not have been available.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A seed developer from the Netherlands credited with introducing high quality disease-resistant vegetable seeds to more than 60 countries including the Philippines, Thailand and Indonesia is the 2019 recipient of the World Food Prize. Simon Groot, a sixth generation seedsman, began his search to create better vegetable seeds to help farmers in Southeast Asia in 1981. Groot’s award was announced Monday at the U.S. Department of State.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Farmers in Iowa and Nebraska finally got a break in the weather last week to catch up on planting, but the U.S. Department of Agriculture says both states remain significantly behind average seasons in crop development. The USDA reported Monday that Iowa farmers have planted 93% of the corn crop, about three weeks behind the five-year average. In Nebraska, 94% of corn is planted, compared with the average of 99%. For soybeans, the Iowa crop is 70% planted and in Nebraska, 79% has been planted.