Jim Field visits with Megan Hansen, Iowa Farm Bureau Young Farmer Advisory Committee Chair and Pottawattamie County Farmer, about the Young Farmer Conference at the Iowa Events Center in Des Moines January 27-28, 2023.
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(Creston, Iowa) – Officials with the Creston Police Department report the arrest at around 12:30-p.m., Monday, of 28-year-old Darren McCay Wilker, from Creston. Wilker was arrested at his residence on two counts of Domestic Abuse Assault. He was taken to the Union County Jail, and later released after seeing the Magistrate.
Des Moines, Iowa – A reminder to farmers and ranchers: The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) will spend several months gathering information about farm economics and production practices from farmers and ranchers across Iowa, as the agency conducts the third and final phase of the 2022 Agricultural Resource Management Survey (ARMS). Greg Thessen, director of the NASS Upper Midwest Regional Field Office, says “ARMS is the only survey that measures the current financial well-being of Iowa producers and
their households as a whole. The results of this survey will help inform decisions on local and federal policies and programs that affect Iowa farms and farm families.”
In an effort to obtain the most accurate data, NASS will reach out to more than 35,000 producers nationwide, including 1,600 in Iowa, between January and April. The survey asks producers to
provide in-depth information about their operating revenues, production costs, and household characteristics. The 2022 ARMS survey includes a version of the questionnaire focused on farm
costs of production and expenditures for wheat producers. The survey also includes questions to help measure any impacts of COVID on farms, farm and household finances, and off-farm
employment. 
Thessen says “In February, our interviewers will begin reaching out to those farmers who have not yet responded. We appreciate their time and are here to help them with the questionnaire so that their information will continue supporting sound agricultural decisionmaking. Completing this questionnaire fulfills your 2022 Census of Agriculture requirement.” Information provided to NASS is kept confidential, as required by federal law. The agency only publishes data in aggregate form, ensuring that no individual respondent or operation can be
identified.
The expense data gathered in ARMS will be published in the annual Farm Production Expenditures report on July 21, 2023. That report and others are available at nass.usda.gov/Publications. More reports based on ARMS data and more information about ARMS are available at ers.usda.gov/arms.
Iowa State head football coach Matt Campbell announced today the addition of transfer wide receiver Jayden Higgins.
Higgins, a 6-4, 215-pound play-making receiver from Eastern Kentucky, joins the Cyclones as a junior after compiling 87 receptions for 1,151 yards and 13 touchdown receptions in two seasons for the Colonels.
The South Miami, Florida, native, had a breakout sophomore season in 2022, catching 58 balls for 757 yards and 10 touchdowns. The 10 receiving touchdowns tied for 15th nationally in FCS as EKU finished 7-5 and ranked third nationally in passing offense.
Higgins had three multi-TD games and two 100-yard receiving games as a sophomore.
He earned All-Atlantic Sun Second-Team honors from Phil Steele.
(cyclones.com)
(Radio Iowa) – As 2023 looms, the experts say about eight in ten New Year’s resolutions are broken by the second week in February. One popular vow that’ll be made on Saturday night is to lose weight. Nutritionist Heather Rasmussen says for Iowans who are positively committed to eating right and getting off the couch, they can absolutely get on course to better health. “It should be done all year ‘round but the new year gives people an opportunity to reevaluate what they’re doing both diet-wise and physical activity,” Rasmussen says, “and maybe to change their mindset and create some goals surrounding their health including diet and exercise.”
Anytime you form a goal, she says it allows you a chance to pause, look over your situation and make changes to your lifestyle, even if the change is temporary. Rasmussen says permanently changing dietary habits is extremely difficult, so for those trying to stay on the diet wagon, a slow-and-steady approach may be ideal. “People get overwhelmed and say, ‘Okay, I’m never going to eat pizza again in my entire life,’ and then they just don’t do it because it’s too much,” Rasmussen says. “Thinking about my patients, what are your short-term goals? I know you want to lose 50 pounds but what do you want to do for this month, or this week?” 
If you find yourself slipping on your nutritional mission, it might help to scale back long-term goals in favor of more short-term ones. Good habits, especially ones drastically different from typical lifestyles, are hard to start and even harder to keep. Research shows that on average, it takes about 66 days for a habit to become automatic.
(Radio Iowa) – Licenses for a chance to snag one of the state’s most unique fish are now on sale. The D-N-R’s Missouri River fisheries supervisor, Chris Larson, says paddlefishing licenses are on sale through January 7th.”It’s one fish per license that you can purchase two licenses of there’s some available after January one,” he says. The season starts February 1st and runs through April 30th on the Missouri and Big Sioux Rivers. The paddlefish season returned in 2015 and Larson says there are still many who like to participate. “It’s kind of remained pretty steady the last few years, it’s been around 300 to 400 licenses sold per year. Most of the non residents only sell out — there are 50 non-resident licenses — but we have plenty of resident licenses available,” he says.
Paddlefishing stopped in 1986 to protect fish numbers, and Larson says they have done okay since things restarted. “They’ve remained stable over our sampling. We did some sampling back in the middle 2000s and Nebraska and Missouri also look at their populations,” Larson says. “They’re all pretty steady as far as the numbers go, and paddlefish move all up and down the river. They go from Gavin’s Point Dam up north of Sioux City, all the way down to Tennessee and back.”
Paddlefish are snagged on the bottom of the river with heavy duty rods and 50 to 100 pound test line. Larson says you need to physically be ready because snagging involves more work than simply dropping a line in the water and waiting — but he says it’s also not that difficult to do. The drought has left water levels lower in the Missouri — which Larson says may be a good thing for those seeking the paddlefish.
Paddlefish catch(DNR-photo)
“It should probably help concentrate the fish into the deeper pools. So yes, it could be an advantage advantageous season depending on what Mother Nature does with snowfall and snow melt and stuff,” he says. I know in the past I’ve heard from different paddlefish anglers that they do better earlier in the season before the fish start moving up river. And sometimes they do better later in the season because it’s been too cold and the fish aren’t moving yet. So it kind of varies from year to year.”
A resident paddlefish license costs 25-50 and a nonresident license is 49 dollars. You must also have a valid Iowa fishing license. For more information about Iowa’s special paddlefish season, visit www.iowadnr.gov/paddlefish.
(Shenandoah, Iowa) – A traffic stop at around 10-p.m., Sunday, in Shenandoah, resulted in a man’s arrest on drug charges. Authorities report a vehicle was stopped for an equipment violation in the 800 block of W. Nishna Road, and upon further investigation, the driver, 51-year-old Richard Jay Wells, of Fort Madison, was arrested for Possession of a Controlled Substance/Methamphetamine, and Possession of a Controlled Substance/Marijuana. Wells was also cited for Failure to Provide Proof of insurance (non-accident related), and Open Container. Additional charges are pending.
Today: Partly cloudy & windy. High 32. S @ 15-25 mph.
Tonight: P/Cldy. Low 25. S @ 10.
Tomorrow: P/Cldy. High 47. S/SW @ 15-25.
Thursday: Mostly cloudy. High 47.
Friday: Mo. Cldy. High 42.
Monday’s High in Atlantic was 15. Our Low was -5. Last year on this date the High in Atlantic was 35 and the Low was 21. The Record High on this date was 65 in 1946. The Record Low was -21 in 1924.
Iowa safety Kaevon Merriweather is opting out of the Music City Bowl but tight end Sam LaPorta says he is all in. The Hawkeyes play Kentucky in Nashville on New Year’s Eve.
LaPorta says they discussed the rising number of players opting out of bowl games at a team meeting before leaving for Nashville.
LaPorta had his knee scoped after tearing a meniscus in a win at Minnesota. He missed the season finale against Nebraska.
Senior corner Riley Moss says opting out was not an option for him.
Moss says after a loss to Nebraska the Hawkeyes are looking forward to the opportunity to end with a victory.
(Carson, Iowa) – Officials with the City of Carson said Monday that the City experienced a loss of water pressure Monday morning, due to a broken water main. The leaking main was isolated. Residents were reported to have water, but the water pressure may be low.
Officials say “It will take some time for the water tower to restore regular water pressure,” and they apologized for the inconvenience. As a precaution, the City of Carson remains in a boil order for the entire community until further notice. The water conservation declaration remains in place. Residents should boil water as a precaution. Bring all water used for drinking, making ice, brushing teeth or preparing food to a boil, let it boil for one minute, and let it cool before using. Or, use bottled water. Boiling kills bacteria and other organisms in the water. Tap water can be used for bathing and similar purpose. 
For more information regarding the boil order and water conservation declaration visit www.carsongov.com.
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