Even if you were raised an Iowa town kid like me, you have to love the farm-rich sights, sounds, tastes and smells of the small-town livestock auction house. You’ll find the best of these at Kalona ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. I recently had the privilege of attending the Spring Draft Horse Sale in Kalona, Iowa. Less than an hour ...

An eastern Iowa sales barn is part of a "horse slaughter pipeline" that sells U.S. animals to foreign processing plants in Canada and Mexico for human consumption in countries that consider the meat a ...