REINBECK – It was a picture-perfect day in Iowa for last Saturday’s 12th annual Reinbeck Art Festival and Car Show held downtown along Main and Broad streets. The festival was well-attended with many young families observed enjoying all the event had to offer including a free flower ...
DYSART – The Hayward Round Barn located north of Dysart in Tama County is one of 72 barns – and one of a record eight round barns – to be featured this weekend on the Iowa Barn Foundation’s 2023 fall all-state barn tour. The self-guided tour is set to take place Saturday, Sept.16 ...
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 – 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 ...
TAMA — U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa) made the rounds with a trio of stops in the southwest quadrant of her district last week Tuesday, August 22, and one of them was a town hall meeting at the Tama Civic Center, where she discussed government spending, agricultural issues, immigration ...
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 ...
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 ...
There was not enough rainfall in recent weeks to significantly improve dry conditions across Iowa amid and a string of hot days with no rain this past week. That’s why the federal Climate Prediction Center is less optimistic about drought lifting from most of the state in the coming ...