GRUNDY CENTER – For Kinzee Hemann, a rising junior at Gladbrook-Reinbeck High School, this summer’s county fair season has been nothing short of extraordinary. A longtime 4-H and FFA member, Hemann showed four pigs at the Grundy County Fair last month and came away with some ...
TOLEDO – Tama Soil & Water Conservation District (SWCD) is pleased to announce Abe Dieleman of rural Toledo and Ryan Hosek of rural Traer have been selected to each receive a $1,000 local college scholarship through the SWCD’s outreach programming. Dieleman is a Green ...
Grundy County livestock exhibitor, Delany Schafer, is pictured here with the Market Beef Champion and will advance to the finale in Oskaloosa this Sunday.
IOWA – Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig recently announced construction is starting on a “batch and build” water quality project in Grundy and Tama Counties. This project, led by Heartland Co-op, will include the installation of 14 saturated buffers and four bioreactors. These ...
LYONS, Neb. — As solar energy projects continue to grow across the U.S., a fact sheet from the Center for Rural Affairs outlines how new development can be designed to protect soil health, reduce erosion, and maintain long-term agricultural productivity. The newly released fact sheet, ...
GRUNDY CENTER – The Grundy County Fair Board successfully hosted the 2025 All-American Grundy County Fair last week beginning Monday, July 21, on the fairgrounds in Grundy Center. “A huge shoutout to our amazing 4-H, FFA, and Clover Kids – you poured your hearts into your animals, ...
Sun Courier Note: This story will publish in the Friday, Aug. 8 print edition of the newspaper. TOLEDO - This week's Tama County Board of Supervisors meeting saw a pivotal turn in the epic wind turbine saga. After years of fighting, litigation, and back-and-forth, the supervisors agreed to ...
DES MOINES – Six Iowa farm families will be recognized as recipients of the 2025 Way We Live Award at the Iowa State Fair including the family of the late Kenneth Hatch who farm west of Gladbrook. Nominations for the annual award include descriptions of how living on the farm and choosing ...
TOLEDO – There are very few folks involved in Tama County 4-H/FFA and agriculture in general who don’t know Frank Albertsen of rural Toledo. But now, the greater population of Iowa will have the opportunity to learn all about him, too, as the county’s 2025 Iowa 4-H Hall of Fame ...
GLADBROOK – The first annual Bacon Buddies Show at the Tama County Fair was held on Friday, July 18, at the fairgrounds in Gladbrook following the 4-H Swine Show with half a dozen buddies participanting. Bacon Buddies, now in its sixth year at the Iowa State Fair, “gives individuals ...