The Adair County Board of Supervisors will hold an electronic meeting beginning at 9-a.m., Wednesday. The public will not be allowed in the Boardroom at the Courthouse in Greenfield, because, officials say, social distancing guidelines cannot be followed. The session will be conducted by dial-up (call 605-313-6157, and when prompted, use access code 526272#). On their agenda, is the presentation of a contract for the mowing of the Grove Cemetery, followed by updates and discussion, with regard to COVID-19.

At around 9:15-a.m., the Adair County Supervisors will hear from Fair Board members Joe Herr and Curt Mikkelson, with regard to alcohol at the County Fair. And, at around 9:30-a.m., they’ll hear from Sheriff Jeff Vandewater, with regard to a new vehicle purchase/Trade-in.

A man from Missouri was arrested Monday evening in Clarinda, for allegedly passing counterfeit U-S currency. Clarinda Police Chief Keith Brothers reports 32-year-old Max William Shafer IV, of Maryville, MO., was arrested in the 200 block of W. Main Street in Clarinda, at around 7-p.m. He allegedly passed the fake money at various local businesses from April 3rd through the 5th.

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Shafer was arrested without incident and held in the Page County Jail on $15,000 bond. An investigation into the incidents continues. Reports have been forwarded to the Page County Attorney’s Office for review, and the filing of formal charges. Reports were also sent to the United States Secret Service, for their review.

The Atlantic Police Department reports two arrests took place Sunday: 40-year-old Daniel Murphy, of Atlantic, was arrested for OWI/1st offense. And, 33-year-old Kayla Millam, of Atlantic, was arrested for Possession of Drug Paraphernalia, Unlawful Possession of Prescription Drugs, and Driving While License Denied or Revoked. Murphy and Millam were booked into the Cass County Jail and later released.

On April 3rd, 51-year-old Janice Lewis, of Atlantic, was cited into court for Driving While License is Barred, and on the 2nd, 35-year old Payton Watzke, of Audubon, was cited into court on the same offense. Both were released at the scene.

(Radio Iowa) – A very small insect is causing big trouble in Iowa’s soybean fields and it’s spreading quickly across the continent. The soybean cyst nematode, or S-C-N, is being tracked in a survey throughout the United States and Canada every few years. S-C-N Coalition co-leader and Iowa State University Extension plant pathologist Greg Tylka says the destructive bug has traveled far since 2017. “There are 55 new counties with SCN in 11 different states in the U.S.,” Tylka says, “and then also they found SCN in a bunch of new counties in Quebec, Ontario and Manitoba.”

As odd as it may sound, he says the most common way they believe the tiny bugs are being transported from field to field and from farm to farm is by the wind, specifically in blowing dirt. “The SCN female, which fills up with a couple hundred eggs and eventually dies — a dead female full of eggs is called a cyst — that cyst is about the size of a period at the end of a printed sentence in a book or in the newspaper,” Tylka says. “It’s tiny and it very easily can be in soil particles that are blown.” The soybean cyst nematode causes a lot of costly damage.

“Even a moderately low level of SCN is probably going to take two-to-five bushels per acre out of the yield,” Tylka says. “We have scenarios in Iowa where we’ve documented 22-to-25 bushels per acre yield loss. There is a lot of money being left in the field due to the SCN.”

Tylka says another reason there’s been more detection of S-C-N is that his coalition is encouraging producers to do more sample testing. He says one way to get a handle on the insect is by properly rotating crops.

(Radio Iowa) – Nearly 630 Iowa soldiers who have been deployed to the Middle East for the past 10 months are returning home. The soldiers returning to Iowa include a group of about 110 men and women from Davenport, 130 from both Cedar Rapids and Dubuque, and 250 from Waterloo. The Iowa Army National Guard is hosting modified community welcome home ceremonies for the soldiers, who are from the 1st Battalion “Ironman” 133rd Infantry Regiment. Due to health concerns associated with the pandemic, the ceremonies will not be open to the public, but they will be live-streamed for the public to view.

The first welcome home event will be held in Waterloo tomorrow (Wednesday) at noon. Others will take place in Cedar Rapids, Davenport and Dubuque before a second ceremony is held in Waterloo on April 13th.

The Ironman Battalion supported Operation Spartan Shield in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility. According to the Iowa Army National Guard, this was the fifth federal mobilization for the Ironman Battalion since 2000, including a nearly 22-month deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from Sept. 2005 through Aug. 2007.

With News Director Ric Hanson.

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The Creston Police Department reports a local man was arrested Monday night on a Union County warrant. 30-year-old Alex Cunningham, of Creston, was taken into custody at around 9:45-p.m., on a warrant for Failure to Serve Court Ordered Jail Sentence, on the original charge of Violation of Protection Order. Cunningham was being held in the Union County Jail until the balance of his sentence is served.

An accident involving an ATV in northern Iowa’s Winnebago County, Monday night, claimed one life and resulted in injuries to another person. The Iowa State Patrol says a 2021 Can-Am ATV wad traveling through a field west of Forest City at around 10:10-p.m., when the vehicle went off of a terrace and began to roll. An occupant in the vehicle was ejected and died at the scene. He was identified as 49-year-old John Eugene West, of Forest City. The second occupant, 23-year-old Terence Jacob West, also of Forest City, suffered non-life threatening injuries. He was flown by LifeNet helicopter to Mercy Hospital in Mason City.  Neither man was wearing a seat belt.

The Patrol said it wasn’t immediately clear who was driving the ATV. The accident remains under investigation.

(Radio Iowa) – State officials say liquid manure from a cattle operation near Remsen turned the water in a nearby creek brown and killed fish for several miles downstream. Department of Natural Resources staff were on site Monday, monitoring clean-up and conducting a count of dead fish. According to a news release from the agency, Louis Pick, who owns LCNJ Farms, filled a tanker with manure Saturday night, but a valve on the tanker apparently failed.

Manure ran into a road ditch, then into a tributary of Whiskey Creek near Remsen. Pick discovered the spill Monday morning and took steps to stop the flow of manure into the ditch and recover pools of liquid manure in the area.