The 2017 4-State Dairy Nutrition and Management Conference is fast approaching on June 14-15 at the Grand River Center in Dubuque, Iowa. The conference will present the latest research on nutrition and management.
The program starts on June 14 with the Diamond V pre-conference symposium. Speakers will discuss feeding and managing a herd for 35,000 pounds of milk.
Four State conference speakers include Richard Erdman, University of Maryland, discussing DCAD for lactating cows. Paul Kononoff, University of Nebraska, will talk about the importance of water and Bill Weiss, Ohio State University, will show his latest research on using TMR sampling to trouble shoot herds.
Are you interested in cost-share or rebates for energy efficiency practices such as LED lighting, ventilation, pumps/motors or milk handling? Have you wondered what the return is for the solar PV systems you may have seen your neighbor installing? Where are the contractors for all this energy work?
Find answer to those questions and many more at the Northeast Iowa Farm Energy Fair Tuesday, June 13 from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Northeast Iowa Community College in Calmar.
The event will offer workshops about technical and financial assistance available for farm energy projects and a contractor expo. The event is free and includes lunch, but attendees must register at energydistrict.org/farmenergyfair/ by June 7 so NICC can plan the meal.
Wisconsin and Iowa officials say Wisconsin State Highway 82 connecting Iowa to Wisconsin just east of Lansing is now open to traffic, including the Black Hawk Bridge at Lansing. East and westbound lanes on Hwy. 82 between Iowa Hwy. 26 and Wisconsin Hwy. 35 had both been closed since Tuesday, May 30 due to a washout caused by high waters on the Mississippi River. Wisconsin Department of Transportation crews have been working since Tuesday on filling the hole and repairing the road, and, as of Friday morning, June 2 at around 11 a.m., the road has been reopened to traffic.
As evident in the photos above and below, space in the current New Albin Fire Station is not a luxury, as emergency vehicles and equipment have grown in both size and type required since the current facility was first built in 1968. Not only does the lack of space impact emergency response but also clean-up and maintenance of equipment. Submitted photos.
The New Albin Fire Department has researched options and proposed a plan to address the limitations of its current fire station facility that houses the department's firefighting equipment, in addition to ambulance and other emergency response equipment. The current facility was constructed in 1968 and falls short of meeting today's needs of the department in regard to space and other functional considerations. Photo by Anne Falken.
by Anne Falken
The current New Albin Fire Department facility was built in 1968. It was a vast improvement over the original 1918 building, which can still be seen on Main Street.
In the 50 years following construction of the current facility, no one could have imagined how the size of fire apparatus would increase, or the amount of specialized equipment that would need to be housed and transported. The result of that growth and additional requirements has now made the current building very tight and out of date.
Clearance is mere inches to get the trucks through the bay doors, and those doors must be opened to even check the truck’s oil and provide other maintenance. Indoor washing of trucks can only be done in one bay due to limited floor drainage and no 360-degree access to the trucks in the other bays. So, the trucks are moved back and forth, increasing volunteer time after a call.
The Nation of Patriots, a volunteer organization with a mission to provide financial support to families of wounded military veterans who have made sacrifices in service to their country, brought its 2017 Patriot Tour through Waukon Saturday, May 27 to kick off its annual three-month summer tour across the country. Tour participants display a United States flag which is transferred between riders at each designated stop along the tour that will travel the contiguous 48 United States before it will finally end up back at its original starting location in Madison, WI in early September.
Artwork by area elementary school students has been on display at the Keystone Area Education Agency (AEA) office in Elkader throughout this past school year, with three local students having their work selected as a “featured artwork” piece. Such a selection means the artwork will be on display at the Keystone AEA office all summer and also on the Keystone AEA website for all to view. That website address is https://www.aea1.k12.ia.us/en/curriculum_instruction_and_assessment/othe....
The Allamakee Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) sponsored the 40th annual Conservation Education Day Thursday, May 4 in the Waukon City Park. An estimated 88 sixthgraders from Waukon Middle School and St. Patrick School in Waukon attended the event. The weather was great and the morning was filled with many fun activities, many of which are pictured in the surrounding photos.
Russ Hagen, Allamakee SWCD volunteer, taught a canoeing station with assistance from Kerry Troendle and Jeremy Leitz from the Allamakee County Farm Service Agency office. The students learned how to get in and out of a canoe safely and enjoyed floating on the Indian Springs Pond. The students had fun and no one fell in.
Tyler O'Neill (center), Waukon High School graduating senior and son of Joe and Michelle O'Neill of Waukon, was recognized by Iowa Governor Terry Branstad (right) and Lieutenant Governor Kim Reynolds (left) for outstanding academic achievement at the 15th Annual Governor’s Scholar Recognition Ceremony held April 30 at Hy-Vee Hall in Des Moines. The statewide program, sponsored by the Iowa Governor’s Office, Iowa High School Athletic Association (IHSAA) and its title sponsor, the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation (IFBF), honored 429 high school seniors from throughout Iowa at this year's ceremony. “Iowa Farm Bureau members know that by investing in our youth and communities, we’re investing in the future of Iowa,” said IFBF President Craig Hill. “We have been honored to be a title sponsor of the Annual Governor's Scholar Recognition Ceremony for the past 15 years to celebrate Iowa's exceptional high school students.
Dave Schoeberlein, Social Studies teacher at Waukon High School was recently recognized by Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate for organizing Waukon High School's and Waukon Middle School's participation in the statewide Iowa Youth Straw Poll for the 2016 general election. Seventh through 12th grade students voted on their choice of the 2016 general election candidates and the results were then totaled with results from other Iowa schools and reported on Secretary of State Pate's website at https://sos.iowa.gov/youth/poll/results.aspx.
