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Friday, July 04, 2008
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- Clarinda FCCLA chapter competes in 2008 Iowa FCCLA STAR Event Competition
Members from the Clarinda Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) chapter competed in the 2008 Iowa FCCLA STAR Event Competition at the State Leadership Conference on March 31 at the Polk County Convention Complex in Des Moines. — Full Story »
- Flooding doesn't faze USDA research workers
While farmers across Iowa tally up the flood damage to their crops in terms of thousands of acres and billions of dollars, they're taking it two acres at a time on the test plots at the USDA Agricultural Research Service test plots in Ames. — Full Story »
- Master Gardener classes start in September:
ISU Extension Story and Boone County offices will be offering master gardener class beginning in September. Trainees receive more than 40 hours of instruction from ISU extension staff and specialists. Classes cover lawn care, ornamental trees and shrubs, insect, disease and pesticide safety, soil and plant nutrition, vegetable gardening, houseplants and garden flowers.< — Full Story »
- Corn checkoff referendum is July 8
Iowa Agriculture Secretary Bill Northey and the Iowa Corn Promotion Board recently announced plans to conduct a referendum Tuesday, July 8, to increase the corn checkoff by one-quarter cent per bushel. Any producer who raised and marketed at least 250 bushels of corn during 2006-07 is eligible to vote at any county extension office in the crop reporting district where they live from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. July 8.< — Full Story »
- Minburn farm site for Pioneer Seed TV commercial
They came from Kansas City with a crew; they came from Chicago with a crane; and they came from Des Moines with a helicopter and a film crew to shoot a Pioneer Seed TV commercial on Doug Repp's Minburn farm. — Full Story »
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