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Career Development Events gives FFA students a chance to get involved with something they’re interested in and they can build a career out of it. These competitions are super beneficial for new members to get engaged, see what their interests might be, and give them that agriculture exposure. It’s an amazing career exploration experience.
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2/21/24
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Results from 2023 Mississippi Valley Fair 4-H and livestock competition
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8/15/23
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River Valley Coop executives join North Scott agriculture students, and staff Monday to present a $100,000 contribution to the district's Regional Innovation Center, under construction on Eldridge's South First Street.
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10/25/23
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Substantial rainfall last week over a wide area near Cedar Rapids helped alleviate the worst drought conditions in the state, according to a U.S. Drought Monitor report on Thursday.
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Iowa Capital Dispatch
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10/25/23
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About 16% of Iowa’s corn and 24% of its soybeans have been harvested so far this year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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Jared Strong, Iowa Capital Dispatch
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10/4/23
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Earlier this year, Oregon Democrats pushed through state legislation that allows local governments to require setbacks between neighbors and factory farming operations. The law prohibits farms from drawing unlimited amounts of free groundwater and requires farmers to apply for a permit before applying manure to their fields.
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Kevin Hardy, Stateline
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10/4/23
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A large swath of Iowa received rainfall this week reducing the days suitable for fieldwork to 5.3 during the week ending September 24, 2023, according to the USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service.
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9/27/23
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In January, subscribers to the American Society for Nutrition’s email listserv received an ad from the National Pork Board. The organization, which promotes the pork industry, wanted funding requests for research that would help “advance understanding” of pork’s role in “healthy diet patterns” and as an “environmentally sustainable protein.”
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Talia Duffy, Investigate Midwest
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9/27/23
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McCarty’s Corner Farm and RaDar Farms will host National Alpaca Farm Days Sept. 23 and 24 at McCarty’s Corner Farm, 21060 240th St., Eldridge. Admission and parking are free.
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9/20/23
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Farmers so far have reported average or better corn yields despite this year’s drought, according to Iowa State University Extension field agronomists.
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9/20/23
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Forget about the color of the ribbons.
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Mark Ridolfi, NSP Managing Editor
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9/5/23
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Rilynn Buesing left the Mississippi Valley Fair Aug. 7, pumped up about showing the grand champion market hog and the reserve champion market gilt.
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Mark Ridolfi, NSP Managing Editor
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8/22/23
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Ila Mae Feuerbach prizes the last rose blooms of the season brightening the autumn collage surrounding her Cedar County farmhouse just north of Durant.
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Mark Ridolfi
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11/1/23
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Fun at the Mississippi Valley Fair
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Glimpses of the 2023 fair through the cameras of NSP editor Erin Gentz and managing editor Mark Ridolfi
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Erin Gentz and Mark Ridolfi
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8/9/23
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Rachel Ehlers has been crowned the 2023 Scott County Pork Queen.
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8/1/23
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Iowa’s corn and soybean crops were buoyed last week by above-normal rainfall and are now in their best shape since the middle of June, according to a U.S. Department of Agriculture report on Monday.
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Jared Strong, Iowa Capital Dispatch
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7/19/23
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Van Buren County has a trove of classic barns featured in this year’s Iowa Barn Foundation tour, June 24-25.
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6/7/23
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The North Scott Agriculture spring banquet on May 7 celebrated a year of FFA achievements and successes, which included pulling off the banquet through a power outage.
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5/24/23
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Safety first on the farm. That’s the lesson North Scott FFA students preached last week to dozens of classmates who have zero farm exposure.
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Mark Ridolfi, NSP Managing Editor
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5/23/23
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Generous weather conditions for field work last week allowed Iowa farmers to make substantial planting progress — they seeded about 41 percent of the state’s corn crop and about 33 percent of soybeans.
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Jared Strong, Iowa Capital Dispatch
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5/10/23
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