The negative impacts of drought, high nitrogen prices and other high prices associated with pasture management have left some pastures in the state in lessthan-ideal condition. As the 2023 growing season approaches, Aaron Saeugling, field agronomist with Iowa State University Extension and Outreach, discusses important considerations when improving thin or over-grazed pastures.
Keep Iowa Beautiful invites Iowans to join the Great American Cleanup and an estimated 3 million volunteers across the nation by removing litter from public areas during Pick-Up Iowa from April 15, through July 31.
The recent discovery of a sabertooth cat skull in southwest Iowa is the first evidence the prehistoric predator once inhabited the state. The chance of finding any fossilized remains from a sabertooth cat is slim, said Matthew Hill, an associate professor of archaeology at Iowa State and expert on animal bones.
Morton-James Public Library is sponsoring a free performance of The Commedia: Pinocchio. The York University Traveling Children’s Theatre will perform in Nebraska City on Saturday, April 22, at 10 a.m.
with Nancy Middaugh New books and movies await the patrons of the Hamburg Public Library. A Wyoming game warden discovers a frozen and mutilated body while tracking wounded elk.
If you have pain on the bottom of your foot at the heel, especially when you take your first steps of the day, you likely have plantar fasciitis. One of the most common causes of foot pain, plantar fasciitis pain can subside with time, but sometimes the pain keeps people from doing what they love, whether that be running, walking, or other pleasures of life. I once saw a young woman suffering from plantar fasciitis who got some relief from an injection. A few years later she returned wanting another injection so she could dance pain-free at her own wedding.
Q: How are you working to improve the nation’s organ procurement system? A: Nearly two decades ago, I started looking under the hood of the system Congress created in 1984 to regulate the nation’s organ procurement system with passage of the National Organ Transplant Act. That federal law provided the framework for the national organ donation, recovery and transplant system.
In 2019, the United States became energy independent for the first time in 62 years – a major milestone for our nation’s energy and national security. That same year, according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA), the price of a gallon of gasoline averaged $2.60 nationwide and just $2.49 in the Midwest while household electricity bills averaged $115 for American families.
On Tuesday, April 18, Tarkio Tech will be hosting a Job Fair for its 2023 graduates and it is open to the public. Fifty-two companies from the region have been invited to send representatives. Many of these companies will be arriving with contracts in hand. The event will begin at 1 p.m. and will conclude at 4 p.m. This is a come and go fair, so you can work around your schedule. Companies will be set up on the first and second floor of Thompson Learning Center.
Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig is encouraging school-age students to participate in the 2023 Choose Iowa Calendar Contest hosted by the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship. Artwork submitted should feature at least one aspect of Iowa agriculture, with an emphasis on food, livestock or crop production.