The Iowa State women fell 78-77 at Kansas State on Wednesday night.
Gabby Gregory hit two free-throws with 2 seconds left to seal the Wildcat win. Maggie Espenmiller-McGraw made a three at the buzzer to provide the final margin.
Lexi Donarski had 18 points, Ashley Joens scored 17, Nyamer Diew 14, and Denae Fritz 12 for Iowa State.
The Cyclones drop to 15-5 and will face Baylor on Saturday.
(Radio Iowa) – As egg prices bound, backyard chicken flocks are gaining in popularity, but the practice of chicken keeping demands plenty of planning and patience before it pays off. Christa Hartsook, the small farms program coordinator for Iowa State University Extension and Outreach, says the amount of money you have to invest to get started depends on how large an operation you want to launch. “Your basic costs are going to be in a little bit of equipment,” Hartsook says. “You’re going to need specific waterers and feeders for baby chicks. You’re going to need a specific area to keep them in that you can keep them nice and enclosed, and definitely very warm while they are in that early stage of life. Your biggest costs are going to be in the chick itself and in the feed.”
Most chicks range from three to six dollars each, but before you start counting your chickens, Hartsook says you’ll need to make sure you can legally keep the birds in the backyard. “I always recommend that folks check with their community first and foremost, so that they can determine what particular regulations are guiding their community,” Hartsook says. “It may be in terms of the overall number, a community may not allow roosters, you may have property setback limits, so definitely check and read your community ordinances.” There are all sorts of breeds from which to choose, and you’ll also need to decide if you want chickens for eggs or for meat. Plus, if you’re going to be raising them in Iowa, certain heavier breeds are better able to withstand the state’s frigid winters.
Hartsook says she’s getting a lot of calls lately about backyard chickens, as spring will arrive March 20th. “People are just very concerned about the rising costs and we use eggs a lot in our daily diets,” Hartsook says. “Another great thing about chickens is it’s a relatively easy enterprise to get started with. It doesn’t cost a whole lot, then it’s a great way for folks to make that connection back to their own food source, and then maybe even provide some responsibility for kids.” For the same reasons egg prices are inflated, supply chain issues are pushing up the cost of chicken feed — and the cost of chicks, too.
“Chicks are a little higher because we are seeing a lot of interest in getting started with backyard chickens, so you’re definitely not going to get chicks tomorrow and then see eggs the next week,” Hartsook says. “You’re not going to see any kind of return really on chicks until fall. It’s five to five-and-a-half months before a chick is mature enough to have egg production.” If you’re considering starting a backyard flock, there’s a free online course through the I-S-U Extension: https://store.extension.iastate.edu/product/15129
(Radio Iowa/KJAN) – January is usually the coldest and driest month of the year, but State Climatologist Justin Glisan says the numbers went against the averages this year. “Little over 24 degrees is the average temperature for the state and that’s about five degrees above average so top 30 warmest Januarys on record,” he says.
KJAN weather records for the month of January in Atlantic, show that we were on average, 4-degrees warmer than normal, 8-degrees warmer on the Low side of the thermometer, and thanks to rainfall and four days of snowfall, we ended-up slightly more than six-tenths of an inch wetter than normal. The Average High for Jan. 2023 in Atlantic was 33.6 degrees (the norm is 29.4). The Low averaged out to 15.5degrees (9.3 is the norm), and we received 1.47-inches of precipitation (rain/melted frozen precip.). We would normally be much drier, at .84-inches. Snowfall amounted to 1.9 inches. The warmest day was January 10th (49-degrees). The coldest day (24-hour Low) was Jan. 30th, at -5 degrees. The snowiest day was January 27th (.8″).
Justin Glisan says January in Iowa saw more rain and snow than normal. “We’re about an inch above average — we came in at just under two inches of precipitation snowfall in any rainfall that fell — and preliminarily in the top 10 wettest Januarys on record.”He says half the state saw more snowfall than normal. “As January is the driest month it doesn’t take a lot to be above average, but definitely above average snowpack across the northern half of the state anywhere from five to 10 inches above average. You look at southern Iowa in a snow drought so below average snowfall for that portion of the state,” Glisan says.
The severe weather in January was not limited to snow and blizzards, as two tornadoes touched down in eastern Iowa. “Very weak tornadoes, E-F-zero, E-F-one, on the ground for 10 minutes five mile track. Some damage along that path, but nothing catastrophic,” he says. The tornadoes were rare and record-breaking. “The earliest calendar day tornado for the state of Iowa. So we broke a record there. And it was these were the first tornadoes that we’ve seen across the state since January 24 1967, when we saw 13 tornadoes in eastern Iowa, which was a part of a larger tornado outbreak across Missouri, Illinois and Iowa,” Glisan says.
Glisan says the early short-term outlook for February is slightly warmer and wetter.
Those hoping for big changes in the offense of the Hawkeye football team will be disappointed after head coach Kirk Ferentz addressed the issue Thursday.
The Iowa offense was one of the worst in the country last season and relied heaving on the defense in its wins. Ferentz’s son Brian — who is the offensive coordinator — has been a big focus of the criticism. But Ferentz says the program’s history has not been to fire coordinators, and that is not going to change.
Ferentz says the program has had some down time, but they always bounce back. And he says they had eight wins last year and 10 wins the year before despite the low scoring offense.
Hawkeye Athletic Director, Gary Barta, also met with the media and backed up his coach.
Under the U-I system, Barta personally evaluates Brian Ferentz since he is Kirk’s son.
Barta also indicated changes in the players will make a difference this coming season.
The Hawkeye offense finished 130 out of 131 F-B-S programs and had the worst average yardage per game since 1978.
Iowa girls will make history today (Thursday) in Iowa City. More than 400 girls will take to the mats in the first ever state wrestling tournament sanctioned by the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union. Participation numbers have rapidly increased the past several years and the officials and coaches association held a state tournament. The numbers more doubled after the Girls Union announced it would sanction the tournament. The girls will compete in 13 weight classes, with the tournament wrapping up Friday.
Listen for live reports from KJAN’s Jim Field throughout the event.
Today: Partly cloudy. High 27. SW-N @ 15-25 mph.
Tonight: Fair to P/Cldy. Low -5. N @ 5-10.
Tomorrow: Mostly sunny. High 22. SE @ 5-10.
Saturday: P/Cldy, windy & warmer. High 44.
Sunday: P/Cldy. High 46.
Wednesday’s High in Atlantic was 41. The Low was 13. Last year on this date the High in Atlantic was 16 and the Low was -4. The Record High on this date was 66 in 1992. The Record Low was -36 in 1905.
The six-ranked University of Iowa women take on eighth-rated Maryland tonight (Thursday), in Carver Hawkeye Arena. Hawkeye coach Lisa Bluder has praise for the Terrapins.
Bluder says Maryland comes in with a lot of momentum. “They’ve had five straight wins now they have almost four people in double figures so they’re hard to guard,” Bluder says. She says her team will have to be sound.
Maryland comes into the 7:30 game at 18-4 overall and 9-2 in the conference. Iowa is 17-4 overall and 9-1 in the conference.
(Radio Iowa) – The Iowa House has unanimously voted to increase the annual budget for grants from the Iowa Veterans Trust Fund by more than a third. The grants are to help low income veterans cover unexpected expenses like car repairs. The 500-thousand dollar allotment for the current budgeting year ran out last fall. Representative Martin Graber of Fort Madison says there would be 800-thousand dollars in grants available each year if the bill becomes law.
“Anytime there’s an issue that deals with veterans I’m for it as long as it’s fiscally responsible and does the right thing,” Graber says. “I believe this bill does those things.”
Earlier this week Governor Reynolds used her authority to transfer 440-thousand dollars in federal pandemic relief funds to finance Veterans Fund grants that had been approved, but not awarded.
(Radio Iowa) – A bill introduced in the Iowa House would require that school library catalogs be posted online and teachers would have to list all the instructional materials they plan to use. The concept was considered in the House and Senate last year, but did not become law. Melissa Peterson of the Iowa State Education Association says parents should have access to school curriculum, but the bill would prevent teachers from adding new material that would benefit students.
“The number of things that can occur on a daily basis, if not an hourly basis, that could have relevance in the classroom,” she says, “that really would help connect whatever is happening from an instructional material standpoint to what is happening in the world around us.” Supporters of the legislation say parents have a right to know what materials will be used in their child’s classroom and opt out of anything they object to. Another House bill calls for a fine of up to five-thousand dollars against a school district that violates the ban on teaching certain ideas about racism and sexism.
Under a 2021 state law, schools are not allowed to teach that Iowa or the United States are fundamentally racist. Republican Representative Steven Holt of Denison says setting up fines would send the message that the law must be followed. “It would appear to us that this hasn’t been complied with in some school districts, that it has been blatantly ignored in some school districts or that they are just simply trying to play word games and keep doing the same thing.”
If the bill becomes law, the Iowa Department of Education would field any complaints that a school is teaching those concepts and determine if the district should be fined.
TIM SELLERS, 76, of Atlantic, died Wednesday, February 1, 2023, at his home. No funeral service or visitations are planned at this time for TIM SELLERS. Memorials may be made to the family for later designation. Roland Funeral Service is assisting the family.
Condolences may be left at www.rolandfuneralservice.com.
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