HUDSON – Come join the cows for breakfast! Tickets are on sale now for the Hansen’s Dairy annual Down on the Farm Breakfast on Saturday, Sept. 23, at Hansen’s Dairy Tour Center, 8461 Lincoln Rd., Hudson. Enjoy a bounty of local food and farm activities during this family-friendly and ...
DES MOINES – On Monday, Sept. 11, Governor Kim Reynolds signed a proclamation relating to the weight limits and transportation of grain, fertilizer, and manure. The proclamation is effective immediately and continues through October 11, 2023. The proclamation allows vehicles ...
DES MOINES – A record seven separate Tama County farm families were honored on Thursday, August 17, at the Iowa State Fair Livestock Pavilion with 2023 Heritage Farm designations. The seven farms were located throughout the northern Tama County landscape and include Abernathey Family Farms ...
DES MOINES – Tama County 4-H and FFA members exhibits were on display in the 4-H and FFA Exhibits Building at the Iowa State Fair this year. Divisions young people may exhibit in include agriculture and natural resources, creative arts, family and consumer sciences, personal ...
Overall dryness in Iowa expanded the last week of August amid unrelenting heat and a lack of rainfall and is now worse than it’s been since March 2013, according to a recent report by the U.S. Drought Monitor. Drought conditions eclipsed their previous worst of this year, which occurred in ...
BUCKINGHAM – Returning to the family farm was something Carolyn Adolphs wanted to do, but she didn’t realize it would happen when it did — after the tragic death of her parents in 1983. They had purchased the farm in 1952 and she and her husband, Ken, took over the farm in 1984. The ...
MELBOURNE – Join Tama County Women, Land & Legacy (WLL) for its upcoming event, “Fall Social: Buzzed Bee Meadery.” It will be held on Thursday, September 14 at Buzzed Bee Meadery, 1755 340th Street, rural Melbourne in neighboring Marshall County. The event will begin promptly at 6 ...
LA PORTE CITY – Clutier resident Linda Dvorak (pictured, right) kept a full Friday night schedule this summer bringing her always popular kolaches to La Porte City’s Brick Street Market. The annual farmers market was held along downtown’s brick Main Street on the west end. Dvorak ...
TRAER – Whannel Farm on the western outskirts of Traer is set to host a Practical Farmers of Iowa (PFI) field day next week focused on creating wildlife habitat on the farm. The event titled ‘Pollinators, Prairie Strips and Oxbows’ will take place on Wednesday, August 23 beginning at ...
A group of more than 30 Iowa farmers, representing 20 county Farm Bureaus, met with Iowa’s congressional delegation July 18-20 in Washington, D.C. to discuss policy issues important to the sustainability of their family farms. Among them was Tama County Farm Bureau vice-president Tyler ...