This year the Roughriders 4H Club had the opportunity to participate in a wonderful service project. With a grant from Iowa Select Farms and the Deb & Jeff Hansen Foundation, the club was able to provide 24 families with groceries. The packages included a pork loin, canned fruit and ...
Annie’s Project, a six-week course designed specially to help farm women develop their management and decision-making skills, is being offered by Iowa State University Extension and Outreach Marshall and Tama County. Online registration is available at www.aep.iastate.edu/womeninag. ...
Grundy County Pork Producers celebrated October Pork month by donating 100 Pork Coupons to Operation Threshold. The Grundy County food bank program distributes food and food vouchers for area families in need of assistance. Pictured are Dave Hommel, Grundy County Pork; Lisa Martinelli, ...
With 268 Century Farms now dotting the Grundy County landscape – three more added just this year – it may be easy to dismiss the designation, especially for those with no familial connections to a farm anymore. But from the point of view of Melvin Schildroth – whose rural Reinbeck farm ...
Three separate Grundy County farm families were honored on Thursday, August 18, at the Iowa State Fair Livestock Pavilion with Century and Heritage Farm designations this year including Greg and Brenda Shine of Conrad (Heritage; est. 1872); Rodney and Marcia Stahl of Wellsburg (Century; est. ...
From swine to sheep to sewing – and seemingly everything in-between – 4-H and FFA members from across Tama and Grundy counties are well-represented this year at the Iowa State Fair. The Sun Courier’s state fair photos are merely a small sampling of both the livestock entries and static ...
On Friday, July 22, U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa) visited with members of the Tama County chapter of Women, Land & Legacy (WLL) on a farm near Traer. Hinson met with Tama County WLL founder Melody Bro and farmer-member Rebecca Dostal, who opened her farm alongside her husband Calvin. ...
It was another successful staging of the Tama County Fair this past week from July 11-17 at the fairgrounds in Gladbrook. The multitude of events and shows were well attended. The weather stayed hot and sunny most days with only a few wet mornings interspersed. All shows were held this year ...
The Wayne Judge Sr. Memorial Antique Power Show was held in Garwin City Park on July 2. Featured was a vast array of antique tractors and equipment, Hit-n-miss engines, cars, and even a 76-year-old motorcycle. The annual show is sponsored by the Garwin Lions Club and is under the direction of ...
Iowa State University Extension and Outreach will hold a farmland leasing meeting for landowners and tenants on Wednesday, August 3, at 1:00 p.m. at the Tama County Extension office located at 203 W. High Street in Toledo. Meetings are two hours long and will cover a variety of subtopics ...