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The ISU Neely-Kinyon Research Farm located south of Greenfield will be hosting a special field day on Wednesday, September 21. Activities will begin at 4:00 p.m. with wagon tours. Wagon stops will feature both pasture management and organic field crop and vegetable crop production. Featured presenters at the field stops will be Joe Sellers, ISU Extension Beef Specialist and Kathleen Delate, ISU Extension Organic Specialist. Sellers will discuss grazing management, selecting the right forage for your system and stockpiling grazing to reduce feed costs. Delate will share results of her 13 years of research at the farm on organic production. She will highlight both her work with traditional agronomic crops of corn, soybeans, and alfalfa and organic vegetable production.
Following the wagon tours there will be a weed ID contest, corn and soybean skill-a-thons, and displays at the building site along with a complimentary supper featuring pork prepared by the Adair County Pork Producers.
Field day goers also will have the chance to select one of two workshops to attend at 6:00 p.m. Dr. Ajay Nair, ISU Horticulture Department, will present information on improving soil biology. Diane Weiland of Wallace Centers of Iowa will do a workshop on Growing and Marketing Vegetables.
The field day is free and supported by the USDA-Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program. The N-K Farm is located 2 miles south of Greenfield on Hwy 25, ½ mile East on 260th Street and ½ mile North on Norfolk Ave. For more information, contact the Adair County Extension office at 641-743-8412 or 1-800-ISUE399.
Melt over boiling water:
Mix together:
Press 2/3 of this mixture into a 9 x 13 inch pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes. Spoon the caramel mixture on top and sprinkle 1 cup chocolate chips over the caramel layer. Sprinkle the rest of the oatmeal mixture on top. Bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes longer. Do not over bake. Cut into small squares to serve — they are rich.
A Red Oak man has been charged in connection with a go-cart accident that resulted in serious injuries to his son. According to Red Oak Police, 35-year old Shawn Michael Soar was taken into custody early this (Tuesday) morning, on Felony charges of Child Endangerment and Serious Injury by Vehicle. Soar was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on $10,000 bond.
Authorities say Soar and his two-year old son Ryan were riding a go-cart at around 9:15-p.m. September 5th, when the machine hit a parked car in the 700-block of East Grimes Street in Red Oak. Following the crash, the child was flown by helicopter to a trauma center in Omaha. A report on his condition is not available.
Shawn Soar suffered minor injuries and was treated at the Montgomery County Memorial Hospital.
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Rebekah Topham led the way for the Griswold Lady Tigers at the Red Oak cross-country meet. For the second consecutive meet the freshman outdistanced the field for first place and an unofficial course record. Topham crossed the finish line on the rugged course in a time of 15:13. She helped her team to a second place finish behind Shennadoah-Essex.
The Lady Tigers had six runners in the top 25. Jordyn Sindt claimed 6th in a time of 17:34. Freshman Alex Flippin faltered about half-way through the race, but gained her composure to move into 14th place. Bailey Powers took 19th; Larissa Backhaus, 23rd; and Allison Young, 25th. Molly Sindt also ran varsity for Griswold.
Shenandoah won the meet with 55 points followed by Griswold with 64 and Harlan with 69. 4th place Corning, 99; 5th Atlantic, 122; 6th Glenwood, 128; 7th Clarinda, 204; 8th Bedford, 258th. For Atlantic, Ali Krogman placed 3rd with a time of 16:39, Alex Hartwig was 17th, Alisha Hinzmann was 32nd, Liz Siggins was 34th, Katie Blake was 36th and Caroline Trewet placed 56th.
On the boys’ side Xavier Olivo medaled for the Tigers. He placed 12th in a time of 19:09. Tyrel Peters placed 37th and Zak Doty finished 39th. Jacob Maass showed remarkable improvement and came in 41st followed by Mason Anstey in 53th. Also completing for the Griswold boys were Logan Potter and Grant Haynes. For Atlantic, Tian Siggins was 16th with a time of 19:38, Josiah Williams placed 18th at 19:48, Sam Bateman was 23rd, Derek VonSeggern was 28th, Ryan McDermott was 29th, Jake Auerbach was 34th and Preston Hoye was 35th. Boys teams standings had Shenandoah-Essex first with 40 points, Harlan second with 62 points, Atlantic was third with 114, Red Oak was fourth with 126, followed by Riverside with 128, Clarinda Academy with 179, Griswold at 182, Southwest Iowa with 217 and Clarinda at 248.
Farmers along the Missouri River are getting advice on reclaiming their land from receding floodwaters. Crop specialists from Iowa State University and the University of Nebraska spoke Monday with farmers gathered at 20 computer linked sites in Iowa, South Dakota, Missouri and Nebraska. ISU Ag engineer Shawn Shouse, says, in some cases, sand may be washed too deep over farmland to be moved. “In severe cases, if the sand is extremely thick, the cost of moving the sand may get to the point where you want to consider selective abandonment of small areas that have extremely deep deposits of sand – as opposed to moving that sand off,” Shouse said.
Aside from sand, farmers along the Missouri River are clearing flood debris from their land. Paul Jasa, with the University of Nebraska, advised farmers to get a cover crop on the barren land as quickly as possible this fall to restore the soil’s microbial activity. He noted, however, seeds for those cover crops are in short supply. Jasa said a lot of cover crop seeds that are normally available in the Midwest have been sent to drought-ridden Texas. For some farmers, Jasa said recovering the farmland to productivity may take another season.
(Radio Iowa)
VIRGINIA SPIKER, 97, of Atlantic, died Mon., Sept. 12th, at the Heritage House. Memorial services for VIRGINIA SPIKER will be held 11-a.m. Sat., Sept. 17th, at the Heritage House. Roland Funeral Home in Atlantic has the arrangements.
Visitation is open at the funeral home on Wed., Thu., & Fri. (Sept. 14-16), from 8am-5pm, with the family present from 5-7pm on Friday.
A private family committal will be held at the Grant Cemetery prior to the Memorial service.
VIRGINIA SPIKER is survived by:
Her son – Steven (Jennifer) Spiker, of Raleigh, NC.
and 1 grandchild
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