Top ranked Winfield-Mount Union opens the 8-Player playoffs at home on Friday mnight against Belle Plaine. Winfield-Mount Union senior star Cam Buffington has combined for more than 14 hundred yards of rushing and receiving and says as the top ranked team the Wolves know they have a target on their back.
Buffington says they are focused on tonight and not their long-term goal.
In the class 1A playoffs fourth ranked MFL-MarMac is at home against Hudson. The Bulldogs won the title in a loaded district three and coach Dan Anderson says a tough regular season schedule has them ready.
Anderson says Hudson is a tough first round draw.
Hudson has been competitive against some quality foes.
An automatic playoff bid in at stake in Class 3A, District 2 as #8 Webster City hosts Humboldt at Lynx Field. The Lynx beat Algona 47-0 last week in a game where Webster City coach Bob Howard says the conditions were perfect for his team’s style.
Howard says the strength of this Humboldt team is in its skill position players.
Humboldt is coming off their own marquee with a 34-0 shutout over previously undefeated Clear Lake, a performance Coach Derrick Elman called gritty.
After a 2-2 start, the gelling of a young offensive line and the return of running back Lance Coon has brought success in district play.
A Great Plains Athletic Conference showdown in Orange city on Saturday finds top ranked Northwestern hosting 22nd ranked Dordt. Northwestern coach Matt McCarty says it is a big game for both teams.
Dordt leads the league in rushing at more than 240 yards per game and McCarty says the Red Raiders will need to control the line of scrimmage.
McCarty says the turnover battle will be big.
Jim Field visits with Farm Credit Administration Board Member Glen Smith of Atlantic about the recently passed Young, Beginning and Small Farmers and Ranchers program designed to assist young farmers in securing seed money to get into the business.
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(NWS/Des Moines, Iowa) – The latest U-S Drought Monitor report from the National Weather Service in Des Moines, shows drought conditions improved in portions of northern and eastern Iowa during the past week. The report, issued Thursday, Oct. 19th, showed none of Iowa’s 99 counties are in an Exceptional Drought (D4). Portions of eastern Iowa are in an Extreme Drought (D3). Severe Drought (D2) conditions are found outside those counties in an Extreme Drought, and extends across much of southern and west central Iowa, to include the extreme northern, western and southwestern portions of Cass County, all of Pottawattamie, Harrison and Shelby Counties, and portions of Audubon, Guthrie, Adair, Mills, Montgomery and Adams Counties.
Moderate Drought (D1) or Abnormally Dry (D-O) conditions exist in areas of the State not already covered by the D2, D3 or D4 Drought conditions. Officials say the 30-day precipitation totals are now above normal for much of northwest Iowa and eastern portions of the State. The largest deficits are across southern Iowa. The seven-day precipitation forecast call for dry conditions this weekend, with an increasing threat of rainfall into next week.
The eight-to 14-day outlook indicates a better chance of below normal temperatures across Iowa, with near normal precipitation during that time frame. The bottom line: Drought conditions are expected to persist across Iowa through the end of this month.
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(Shenandoah, Iowa) – The Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is partnering with Optimal Aquafeed and Page County Conservation Board to stock rainbow trout at 9 a.m. this Saturday, October 21 in RAPP Park, outside Shenandoah. Approximately 750 rainbow trout ranging from 0.75 lbs to 4.0 lbs. from Optimal Aquafeed will be stocked by Iowa DNR staff in a small borrow pit on the RAPP Park property. A second stocking of approximately 500 rainbow trout is planned for November.
Anglers must have a valid fishing license and pay the trout fee to fish for or possess trout. The daily limit is five trout per licensed angler with a possession limit of 10. Children age 15 or younger can fish for trout with a properly licensed adult, but they must limit their catch to one daily limit. The child can buy a trout fee which will allow them to catch their own limit of five trout.
Rainbow Trout (DNR Photo)
This is the third year of this successful partnership that provides a unique fishing opportunity to southwest Iowa anglers.
(Radio Iowa) – Alpaca farmers from all across the Midwest will be bringing their animals to central Iowa this weekend for a large convention, show and competition. The president of the National Alpaca Owners Association, Jennifer Hack, says the Fall Alpaca Spectacular will be the first-ever “mega” alpaca show in North America, as it’s combining five competitions into one.
There will be some 350 alpacas shown at the Iowa venue, which is free and open to the general public. Unlike most other livestock, alpacas aren’t raised for meat, but rather for their fleece, which Hack says is truly unlike that of any other creature.
The event runs today (Friday) through Sunday at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines.
(Radio Iowa) – Iowa State University and Alliant Energy dedicated a solar farm on the south side of Ames Thursday. The Dean of the I-S-U College of Agriculture, Daniel Robison says it’s an agrivoltaic project that combines agricultural use with the production of voltage or electricity. The solar panels are up higher and can rotate to allow for the planting of fruits and vegetables around them.
ISU Solar farm (ISU photo)
Robison says I-S-U received a two-point-two million dollar grant from the U-S Department of Energy to study how the crops do in a solar field. He says that type of research isn’t very abundant in the Midwest. They also have planted pollinator plants like prairie grasses around the solar farm and will have beehives as well so they can harvest honey along with the electricity produced by the solar panels.
Sheriff’s Deputies in Montgomery County, Thursday, reported the arrest of 25-year-old Dawson Allen Dawson, of Red Oak. He was taken into custody at around 12:11-p.m. in the 100 block of E. Reed Street, on a Montgomery County Magistrate warrant for Contempt/Resist Court Order. Dawson was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on a $300 bond.
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