w/ Jim Field
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VERN GILBERT, 85, of Scottsdale, AZ and formerly Atlantic died on April 8th in Scottsdale. Memorial services for VERN GILBERT will be held on Saturday, July 14 at 2 PM at the United Church of Christ in Atlantic.
Jim Field speaks with Jim Phillips and Bryan Hayes about a Walleye Fundraiser for Lake Anita.
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The Adair County Board of Supervisors will hold their regularly scheduled meeting Thursday morning.
On the agenda is an update on the manure management plan and an EMS Grant Final draw Down. The Board Adair Supervisors will also hear from County Auditor Mindy Schaefer about server/laptop bids. Jerry Christensen will speak to the board about courthouse windows, and county treasurer Brenda Wallace will give the treasurer’s semi annual report.
The meeting of the Adair County Board of Supervisors will be held Thursday at 9:00 at the Adair County Courthouse in Greenfield.
w/ Kate Olson talking about Sweet Corn
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Class 1-A:
District 14
Audubon 7, Ar-We-Va 1
CAM 7, Adair-Casey 3
Coon Rapids-Bayard 10, East Greene 0 (6 inn)
Exira/EHK 7, Guthrie Center 3
District 15
Walnut 5, Woodbine 2
AHST 5, Griswold 1
Logan-Magnolia 8, West Harrison 1
St. Albert 11, Riverside 1 (5 inn)
District 16
Nishnabotna 16, Villisca 6 (5 inn)
Sidney 12, Bedford 4
East Mills 7, Fremont-Mills 4
Treynor 14, Stanton 5 (6 inn)
District 13
Corning 9 Lenox 1
Van Meter 11 Iowa Christian 0 (5 inn)
Earlham 10 Orient-Macksburg 4
Madrid 6 Woodward-Granger 5
Class 2-A:
District 15
Clarinda 8, Underwood 3
Tri-Center 2, Missouri Valley 0
District 16
East Sac County 3, Maple Valley 0
Kuemper 12, OA-BCIG 1 (5 inn)
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Class 5-A Regional Finals
The House Agriculture Committee is could vote today (Wednesday) on a farm bill package. Western Iowa Congressman Steve King, a Republican from Kiron, is a member of the committee.
He says they’ve been putting it together on the House side for a long time, with hearings starting back in April. He says they will “mark up” a farm bill on July 11th. King says one of the areas of the ag bill he wants to bring under control is the spending on the program formerly known as food stamps.
He says just a few years ago, there were 19 million Americans on food stamps, and now there’s 44-point-seven (44.7) million. “We have the U-S Department of Agriculture spending millions of dollars advertising to get more people to sign up on food stamps. Now I’d rather spend that money on food than advertisement, if people are hungry then they are going to find a way to get fed. So that’s what we’re missing here, the philosophy of the U-S-D-A,” King says. “Neither do I buy the line that for every dollar worth of food stamps you hand out you get a dollar-four of economic activity. That’s not the way to grow the economy.” King says the way to grow the economy is to create more jobs. The U-S Ag Secretary is former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack and the husband of King’s Democratic opponent, Christie Vilsack. King says he hopes the full House can pass a bill before the month.
He says the goal is to get a bill done and get it to the conference committee, that way they can work on it during the month of August and have a bill ready to vote on after Labor Day “before the real silly season of politics is upon us.” Overall, the House bill would cut Agriculture Department spending by 35-billion-dollars over 10 years, or 12-billion-dollars more than the Senate. The House bill’s revenue plan would pay growers when revenue is from 15-25 percent below average, while the Senate bill would eliminate traditional subsidies such as target prices and instead compensate growers when revenue from a crop is 11-21 percent below average. In either bill, crop insurance would cover deeper losses.
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