A recent traffic stop on Interstate 80 in Cass County resulted in at least one arrest and the recovery of 14 pounds of marijuana. Cass County Deputy Tyler Shiels and his K9 partner conducted the traffic stop. Additional information is expected from the Sheriff’s Office, later.
We’ll have Class 1A Boys First Round Tournament action tonight on KJAN from Guthrie Center. In Class 1A Distrtict 14 CAM will face Riverside in the first game of the night at 6:30pm. Adair-Casey takes on Guthrie Center in the second match-up at 8:00pm. Catch all the action tonight on KJAN AM 1220 and FM 101.1. You can also listen live online at kjan.com or on the KJAN mobile app.
The State Wrestling Tournament will be held Thursday through Saturday at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines. We will have updates throughout each day on KJAN with results and then bring you the finals live on Saturday night. Check back for a full list of report times on KJAN.
2016 State Dual Team Wrestling Schedule
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Iowa Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds today (Monday) announced a series of STEM school visits across Iowa to discuss the importance of giving students a world-class education in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Reynolds is co-chair of the Governor’s Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Advisory Council along with Dr. Chris Nelson, president and CEO of Kemin Industries. The STEM Council’s overarching goal is to increase STEM interest and achievement and to regain Iowa’s historic legacy as a leader in education and workforce development.
The tour will begin with stops in February and will continue through April. Locally, the schedule for the tour includes:
Friday, March 18, IKM-Manning School District: 1:15 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. at the IKM-Manning High School, 209 10th St., Manning.
AMES, IOWA – Iowa’s cattle producers are asking their fellow Iowans to help find Iowa’s Best Burger in 2016. In this year’s quest, the Iowa Beef Industry Council (IBIC) and the Iowa Cattlemen’s Association (ICA) are encouraging you to nominate your favorite burger, whether it’s gourmet or down-home style. This is the seventh year the two groups are holding the annual Iowa’s Best Burger contest, which officially kicks off February 15. All nominations must be in the IBIC office by 5 p.m. on March 9, 2016.
Katie Olthoff, Director of Communications for the ICA, says “We are in search of Iowa’s Best Burger. To qualify to be named Iowa’s Best Burger, the burger must be a 100% beef burger and served on a bun or bread product.” In order to recognize these great burgers, IBIC and ICA are asking Iowa consumers to nominate their favorite burgers for the award, and those nominations can be made by mail, text, or online.
Details about the contest rules and nomination forms are available on the Iowa Beef Industry Council’s website, www.iabeef.org. Burger lovers can also find a link to the online nomination form at the Iowa Beef Council Facebook page; or by texting BEEF to 313131. Photos of your favorite burger can be shared socially using #IABestBurger.
The nomination period ends March 9, 2016. The top 10 restaurants with the most votes are eligible for the title of Iowa’s Best Burger. The top ten finalists will be announced in March 15th. Finalists will receive a certificate and will be eligible for the secret taste-test of contest judges. The 2016 Best Burger in Iowa will be announced on May 2 and will kick-off May Beef Month.
In 2015, more than 4,000 nominations for 286 restaurants were received in the contest. The final winners in previous years are: 2015 – The Cider House, Fairfield; 2014 – Brick City Grill, Ames; 2013 – 61 Chop House Grille, Mediapolis; 2012 – Coon Bowl III, Coon Rapids; 2011 – Rusty Duck, Dexter; 2010 – Sac County Cattle Company, Sac City.
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Maytag Dairy Farms is voluntarily recalling Maytag Raw Milk Blue cheese due to possible contamination with Listeria. According to a press release, the recalled product was packaged on January 6th in 4- and 8-ounce wedges, 2- and 4-pound wheels, and 5-pound crumbles. The lot included 896 pounds of cheese and was distributed to Fareway in Newton, HoQ restaurant in Des Moines, the Bear Restaurant in Ankeny, Wine Experience in West Des Moines, and Lomar Distributing, Inc. in Des Moines or was purchased directly from Maytag Dairy Farms in Newton.
Consumers should not eat the recalled cheese as Listeria can cause serious illness and death. The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship’s Dairy Products Control Bureau discovered the possible contamination during routine testing. There have been no reported cases of Listeria since the product was packaged.
(Radio Iowa)
Students, teachers, administrators, parents, and members of the Davenport school board are in Des Moines today (Monday) for their annual lobby day. The board recently gave its support to superintendent Art Tate, who wants to spend more money next year than the state funding formula allows. Despite having millions of dollars in reserve funds, the Davenport district is forced to spend much less per student than nearby districts. School board president Ralph Johanson says they have a very specific goal in mind at the lobby day.
“What we really need is a fundamental change to the funding formula,” Johanson says. “We’re looking for some legislators who have the fortitude to do what’s right and to make some of those changes, even if it takes a long time.” As they did last year, students from Davenport will wear t-shirts saying, “I’m Worth Less,” when they meet with the governor and legislators.
(Radio Iowa)
ARDEN MARCO, 87, died Sunday, Feb. 14th, at Myrtue Medical Center, in Harlan. Services for ARDEN MARCO are pending at the Pauley-Jones Funeral Home, in Harlan.
A research specialist with Practical Farmers of Iowa is calling on all row-crop farmers who raise cattle to use cover crops. Sarah Carlson has been studying cover crops since 2008. “There’s multiple places where cover crops and cattle just make so much sense,” Carlson said. “For example, in the fall, you fly on a cover crop into standing corn. You harvest that corn and have the green material out there with those corn stalks. That green material is really lush, so it’s going to help that cow eat even more corn stalks.”
The corn stalks are full of carbon and the green, nitrogen-rich cover crop helps cattle digest and eat more stalks, therefore saving on hay costs. Carlson says, as the cow processes all the carbon, that leads to more benefits. “It deposits its manure, so the end credits that you could take going back to corn (like corn following corn) you could be able to reduce nitrogen and not take the yield hit we see in corn on corn because the cow would’ve processed all that carbon,” Carlson explained.
She says fall grazing of cover crops should be a “no-brainer” for cattle producers, and there are ways to work around some of the challenges of spring grazing, like compaction from the cows.
(Brownfield Ag News)
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