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Agriculture

Registration opens for 4-H youth summer programs – all are welcome!

TAMA COUNTY – Tama County 4-H is excited to offer the following summer programs to all youth of Tama County. Find the camps and registration forms on our website at https://www.extension.iastate.edu/tama/youth-programs. For more information, contact the Tama County Extension and Outreach ...

Guthrie competes in three-day Equine Extravaganza

IOWA FALLS – Iowa State University Extension and Outreach held a three-day Equine Extravaganza at the Ellsworth Community College Equestrian Center in Iowa Falls April 12-14. Ty Guthrie, a member of Clutier Cowboys and Cowgirls 4-H Club in Tama County participated. The Iowa 4-H Youth ...

Tama County Fair Queen call for candidates

Miss Adelyn Sienknecht, 2023 Tama County Fair Queen has been representing Tama County at fair activities, parades and other activities throughout the year. Her reign will soon be coming to an end. Sienknecht, the daughter of Randy and Melissa Sienknecht, is the seventh consecutive Tama ...

Become a Soil and Water Conservation Commissioner

Want to become a Tama Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) Commissioner, give back to your community and have a positive impact on Iowa’s land, water and people? Seats for three Tama SWCD commissioner seats will be found on the November 5, 2024 general election ballot, all four-year ...

Zoning commission continues to beat around the (solar) bush

TOLEDO – The Tama County Zoning Commission’s latest meeting drew a packed house inside the supervisors’ chambers on Wednesday, April 17, at the Administration Building in Toledo. And while many of those in attendance were eager for the commission to make a recommendation on the ...

Master Gardeners ask community to ‘Grow A Row for Tama County’

TAMA COUNTY – Tama County Master Gardeners and Iowa State University Extension and Outreach in Tama County encourage farmers and gardeners to grow a little extra food again this year.  ‘Grow A Row for Tama County—Backyard Gardeners Fighting Hunger’ is a campaign to encourage ...

Rep. Wulf, Sec. Naig visit Iowa Premium

TAMA – Flanked by Rep. Derek Wulf (R-Hudson), Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig, a fellow Republican, took a tour of the Iowa Premium Beef plant in Tama with General Manager Jon Surman last Friday morning and learned more about successes and challenges at the facility, which currently ...

Free tree seedlings available May 4

TAMA COUNTY – Tama County Master Gardeners will be distributing free tree seedlings at the Tama County Extension and Outreach office at 203 W. High St. in Toledo on Saturday, May 4 beginning at 10 a.m. and going until 125 trees are distributed, or noon – whichever comes first. They will ...

North Tama FFA to provide free farmer breakfast April 20

TRAER – National Agriculture Week was recently celebrated but North Tama FFA knows that we should celebrate farmers all year long. FFA is a student organization for those interested in agriculture and leadership. Through classes at North Tama, youth learn about horticulture, animal science, ...