DES MOINES – The Iowa Pork Producers Association (IPPA) announced the 2024 Master Pork Producers awardees at the Iowa Pork Congress banquet held on Wednesday, Jan. 22, in Des Moines. Among those honored were Josh and Megan Volante of Clutier. The award winners including the Volantes embody ...
DES MOINES – Members of the Grundy County Pork Producers recently attended the Iowa Pork Congress held Jan. 22-23 in Des Moines. During the Iowa Pork Producers Association’s Annual Meeting Luncheon, several local members received recognition including Emma Fleshner who earned the 2024 ...
WEST DES MOINES – Cordt Holub of Tama County has been named a semi-finalist in the Iowa Farm Bureau’s Young Farmer Conference Discussion Meet. Unlike a debate, the Discussion Meet promotes an exchange of ideas and explores solutions to key challenges facing agriculture. Participants are ...
GLADBROOK – Tama County Sheriff Casey Schmidt (R-Dysart) was quite possibly ‘filling’ like a million bucks last Saturday, Jan. 18, at the Tama County Pork Producers annual banquet in Gladbrook after his homemade butterfinger pie won first place in the men’s division of the best pie ...
TOLEDO – Iowa State University Extension and Outreach Tama County will host an Ag Pest Control Continuing Instruction Course (CIC) for commercial pesticide applicators on Wednesday, Feb. 12. The program, provided by the ISU Extension and Outreach Pesticide Safety Education Program (PSEP), is ...
TOLEDO – The winds of change are sweeping through Tama County government. It has been roughly three years since members of the local coalition Tama County Against Turbines (TCAT) first started asking the then three-member Tama County Board of Supervisors to enact a moratorium on commercial ...
GLADBROOK – In an update/clarification to a story first published on Dec. 27 about a possible oil leak on a Vienna Wind Farm turbine near Gladbrook, MidAmerican Energy says photographic evidence illustrates ‘lubricant residue’ – a condition the company plans to address later this ...
The Mid-Iowa Youth Beef Team completed a successful year of advocating and educating themselves and others about the beef industry and beef production. Team members participated in Cattlemen at the Capitol, took field trips, made multiple appearances on radio, presentations to consumers, ...
TAMA COUNTY – Since 2011, the Deb and Jeff Hansen Foundation has hosted Operation Christmas Meal, a hunger relief effort supporting Iowa families in need of a helping hand, especially during the holidays. Throughout the first two weeks of December, the Deb and Jeff Hansen Foundation hosts ...
TOLEDO – Join Tama County Women, Land & Legacy (WLL) for its 51st event, “Baking from the Earth: Ancient Grains.” The event will be held on Thursday, Jan. 16, in State Bank of Toledo’s Community Room (103 S. Broadway Street, Toledo). Registration and dessert will begin at 6:30 p.m. ...