Registration is underway for entrants in the annual Tama-Toledo Area Chamber of?Commerce BBQ?Contest.It will be held during the Toledo Stoplight Festival on July 5 on the Tama County Courthouse Square in downtown Toledo.To get complete entry details contact Gery Hagerty, BBQ chair - ...
Promised development help for Iowa Quality Beef in the company's quest to reopen the closed beef packing plant on Tama's east side took another step forward Monday night.City council members voted 4-0 to set a public hearing on an agreement for July 1 to hear comments on the measure. Members ...
DES MOINES - Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey commented on the Iowa Crops and Weather report released by the USDA National Agricultural Statistical Service. The report is released weekly from April through October."With only 94 percent of the corn planted, Iowa has ...
MARSHALLTOWN - Marshalltown Community College has announced that its Industrial Maintenance Technology (IMT) program will be moving to the Marshalltown campus starting this fall. The program, under the instruction of Jack Aker, had been offered exclusively on the campus of Iowa Valley Grinnell ...
One berry bush at a time, Andrew Pittz, is spreading the word on aronia berries. The sixth-generation Iowa farmer is in the midst of a 99-county Iowa tour promoting a new crop - aronia berries, their health benefits and their economic potential.He stopped early last Thursday, June 13, to plant ...
One berry bush at a time, Andrew Pittz, is spreading the word on aronia berries. The sixth-generation Iowa farmer is in the midst of a 99-county Iowa tour promoting a new crop - aronia berries, their health benefits and their economic potential.He stopped early last Thursday, June 13, to plant ...
"Area farmers who experience extreme damage to their land from severe weather events should report the damage to our FSA Office" says Anna Boecker, county executive director for the Tama County FSA Office. This is done by signing the required application, identifying the damaged land on an ...
Farm Loan Manager, Jon Northrup, announced that family farmers with qualifying production and physical losses caused by severe storms, straight-line winds, and flooding from April 17, 2013 through April 30, 2013 may be eligible for an emergency loan. Applications for assistance should be ...
On a 3-0 vote the Tama County Board of Supervisors voted to recommend denial of a permit for a 4,400 head hog operation near Lincoln in northwest Tama County. The vote was Monday during the board's regular meeting. Members are Dan Anderson, rural Tama, Kendall Jordan, Toledo and Larry Vest, ...
Norton's Greenhouse, 700 West Ross, Toledo, has added a new line of organic products which promise to improve lawns and gardens through a grassroots approach.Many lawn and garden products are designed for a certain plant or issue. In a different approach, one new brand made in Iowa, Pure ...