Jim Field visits with Department of Transportation District Planner Scott Suhr about local road projects.
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Jim Field visits with Department of Transportation District Planner Scott Suhr about local road projects.
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(FORT DODGE) – The Iowa Dept. of Corrections reports Andrew James Nielsen, who was convicted of Burglary 1st Degree in Webster County and Prohibited Acts/drug related in Fayette County, failed to report back to the Fort Dodge Residential Center as required last (Monday) night. Nielsen is a 40-year-old white male, height 5’9”, and weighing 167 pounds. He was admitted to the work release facility on July 20, 2017. Persons with information on Nielsen’s whereabouts should contact local police.
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The 7:20-a.m. Sportscast w/Chris Parks.
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The area’s latest and/or top news stories at 7:06-a.m., w/KJAN News Director Ric Hanson
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OA-BCIG hosted the Co-Ed Bob Saunders Invitational on Monday night in Ida Grove.
Girls Team
Girls Individual
Boys Team
Boys Individual
Full results: OABCIGBobSaunders2017
The Western Iowa Conference Cross Country Championships were held on Monday night at Treynor Recreation Area. Logan-Magnolia took the girls team title and Tri-Center won the boys crown.
Girls Team
Girls Individual
Boys Team
Boys Individual
Full results: WIC2017XC
Skyscan Forecast – Dan Hicks – Tuesday, 10/10/17
Today: Cloudy w/rain. High 48. N @ 10-20.
Tonight: Cloudy to P/Cdy. Low 37. N @ 5-10.
Tomorrow: Morning fog; P/Cldy. High 58. SE @ 5-10.
Thursday: P/Cldy. High around 70.
Friday: P/Cloudy to cloudy. High around 72.
Monday’s High in Atlantic was 65. Our Low this morning (as of 5:50-a.m.) was 39. 24-hour Rainfall as of 7-a.m. was .57″. Last year on this date, the High in Atlantic was 66 and the low was 56. The Record High in Atlantic on this date was 96 in 1893. The Record Low for this date was 17 in 1906.
Senator Chuck Grassley has some advice for President Trump and Tennessee Senator Bob Corker: “Both ought to cool it.” Grassley was quizzed by reporters from N-B-C and W-H-O Television yesterday (Monday) about what the two Republicans said of one another on Sunday. Trump claimed Corker decided against seeking reelection because Trump wouldn’t support him. Corker then spoke with The New York Times and unleashed a torrent of criticism, suggested Trump “may be setting the U.S. on the path to World War III.”
Grassley told the reporters in Boone yesterday (Monday) that this very public feud won’t hurt progress on issues like tax reform. “Definitely not, you see, because the president is in the executive branch and we are in the legislature branch…As long as we do our job, it’s doesn’t matter what the president does, only if he doesn’t sign what we send to him,” Grassley said. “That’s the only place where he’s involved.”
Grassley says he’s got “more important things to do” than try to referee the conflict between Trump and the Tennessee senator. Grassley spoke with N-B-C and W-H-O Television after holding a town-hall meeting in Boone.
(Radio Iowa)
The leader of the U.S. Dairy Export Council says he’s making changes to the organization’s marketing strategy. CEO Tom Vilsack says he’d like to increase export sales by five-percent, bringing the total to 20-percent of U.S. dairy production.
“To do that requires us to have more presence in some of these emerging markets, more people on the ground figuring out what the market needs, what the market wants, figuring out ways in which we can innovate appropriately to meet that market demand,” Vilsack said. Although the boost in manpower in developing markets will cost money, Vilsack is promising producers they won’t see changes in the dairy checkoff program.
“This is not about increasing the checkoff. This is about using the resources that are available from the checkoff in the most efficient and effective way possible,” Vilsack said. “And, certainly within our own USDEC budget, we are re-prioritizing to be able to put more resources, for example, into that Mexican market which is so important.”
The 66-year-old Vilsack added along with cutting ineffective marketing programs, the council will examine revenue streams.
“We also have dues-paying members, 120 members or so of our organization. There hasn’t been a dues increase for at least 10 years, so there’s a possibility that we would look at our dues structure. That’s a small percentage of our budget, but an important part of it,” Vilsack said. “And, we obviously want to make a case to the U.S. Government to continue to fund and maybe even increase the MAP (Market Access Program) funding, the foreign market development funding (and) the market assistance programs.”
Vilsack served as the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture for eight years before starting his new job with the U.S. Dairy Export Council in February. Vilsack was Iowa’s governor from 1999 to 2007. He made his comments in an interview with Brownfield Ag News at the World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wisconsin. Iowa typically ranks among the top 15 states in terms of annual dairy production.
(Radio Iowa, w/Thanks to Larry Lee, Brownfield Ag News)