DYSART – On a recent Thursday morning in July, in the soggy back parking lot of Union Middle School, Tama-Benton Cooperative general manager and school board president Ben Schemmel convened a group of agriculture, business, school, and government leaders, but not to talk corn, beans, or ...
TOLEDO – Tama Soil & Water Conservation District (SWCD) is pleased to announce Abe Dieleman of rural Toledo and Ryan Hosek of rural Traer have been selected to each receive a $1,000 local college scholarship through the SWCD’s outreach programming. Dieleman is a Green ...
IOWA – Drought conditions improved statewide due to above-normal precipitation totals in July, according to the latest Water Summary Update. With more than double the expected precipitation, last month ranks as the second wettest July in 153 years of records, behind July 1993. Drought and ...
IOWA – Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig recently announced construction is starting on a “batch and build” water quality project in Tama and Grundy Counties. This project, led by Heartland Co-op, will include the installation of 14 saturated buffers and four bioreactors. These ...
IOWA – The Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is looking for help with the annual wild turkey production survey. During the months of July and August wild turkey sightings are recorded to estimate this year’s nesting rates and nest success. Participation is easy – just note the ...
DYSART – If a green thumb is genetic, Vicki Behrens certainly added to the evidence this past June by receiving the Dysart Garden Club’s ‘Blue Ribbon Flowers of the Month’ less than one week after her older sister Donna Young received a similar designation from the Tipton Chamber of ...
IRVINE PRAIRIE – More than 100 students from Union High School closed out the school year last month with a trip to Irvine Prairie – a nearly 300-acre ‘prairie-in-progress’ roughly five miles northeast of Dysart as the crow flies and stewarded by UNI’s Tallgrass Prairie Center ...
CLUTIER – If you plant flax, folks will certainly come when the field starts blooming. For nearly 40 years, Bill and Janet Wilson have farmed the field located at the corner of V-18 and 220th St. in Oneida Township northeast of Clutier, but it’s certainly never caught the attention of ...
KELLOGG – Iowa Learning Farms, in partnership with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR), Pathfinders RC&D, and Grinnell College, will host a prairie and pollinator habitat field day Tuesday, June 24 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Conard Environmental Research Area (CERA) near ...
OTTER CREEK LAKE & PARK – It’s almost summer and that can only mean one thing – GET OUTDOORS! The Tama County Conservation Board is inviting the public to enjoy a FREE canoeing day at Otter Creek Lake and Park on June 14 in celebration of national “GET OUTDOORS DAY.” ...