Members of the Mid-Iowa Youth Beef Team (MIYBT) have continued to educate, advocate, and earn accolades in recent months. The Iowa Cattlemen's Foundation recognized 27 members at the 2018 Iowa State Fair for their agvocacy (advocating for agriculture) work. The members had completed educational ...
"We'll have another new downtown business," Tama Mayor pro tem Doug Ray said Monday following the approval of a series of city programs for Ashley Aylysworth's planned new fitness facility.A pair of storefronts formerly occupied by the Second Hand Store owned by Muriel and the late Don Rank at ...
The Iowa Valley Community College District Board of Directors met in special session on Nov. 28 to approve the sale of property at 3405 S. Center St. in Marshalltown. A sale price of $285,000 with $5,000 down in earnest money and a closing date of April 19, 2019, were approved by the Board; the ...
John Kavalier, President and CEO, State Bank of Toledo announced that Donna Princehouse, Executive Vice President & Cashier, is retiring effective January 1, 2019, with over 41 years of service to the bank. Her career with the bank began August 1, 1977, working in the bookkeeping ...
"We always wanted to do something for the community," Josh Murphy said last Saturday. "We" are his father, Joe Murphy and brother, Jeremiah, and himself who have become partners to open Murph's Creamery & Grill on Business Highway 30 in Toledo."We bought it (the former Butter Cow ...
DES MOINES - Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig commented on the Iowa Crop Progress and Condition report released by the USDA National Agricultural Statistical Service. The report is released weekly from April through November."Slow but steady harvest progress continues as farmers deal ...
The Waterloo City Council gave the go-ahead Monday night, Nov. 19, to rezone 2.53 acres formerly occupied by the Rath Packing Company for a meet processing plant. The Waterloo-CedarFalls Courier reported Tuesday the plan is for an organic beef processing facility to employ 74 people with pay of ...
AMES An Iowa State University study that shows the age of Iowa's farmland owners continues to rise is now available through the ISU Extension Store.Results from the "2017 Farmland Ownership and Tenure Survey 1982-2017: A Thirty-five Year Perspective" (FM 1893) were released in June, but are now ...
From the cornfields east of Garwin - north of Toledo to the Mid-Iowa Co-Op at U.S. Highway 63 and Tama County Road E29 on Wednesday afternoon, the harvest continued in full swing last week. The latest USDA?Crop Report comes after the Chronicle press deadline for last week, but by indication ...
DES MOINES - Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig commented on the Iowa Crop Progress and Condition report released by the USDA National Agricultural Statistical Service. The report is released weekly from April through November."Farmers were again able to make good progress last week and ...