Iowa’s most popular hunting seasons are just around the corner when more than 100,000 blaze orange clad hunters will be walking, posting, sitting and standing in Iowa’s timber and field edges hoping to tag an Iowa deer.
October’s above-normal precipitation broke a streak of drier-than-normal months that began in March, according to the latest Water Summary Update.
Failure to protect fruit trees and landscape ornamentals against gnawing rodents, rabbits and deer this fall can result in a nasty surprise next spring: girdled trunks or stems, and broken branches.
Gavins Point Dam releases will be reduced in late November as flow support to navigation ends.
The Iowa DNR is asking trappers for help with a study on Iowa’s gray fox population.“We’re asking trappers who happen to catch a gray fox alive to contact me or wildlife technician Dave Hoffman directly so we can make arrangements to equip the animal with a neck collar and release it for tracking purposes as part of a research project.
The Greenhouse and Ornamental Pest Control Continuing Instruction Course (CIC) for commercial pesticide applicators is now available.
Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig has commented on the Iowa Crop Progress and Condition Report released by the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service.
Golden Hills RC&D, the Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS), and Hungry Canyons Alliance (HCA), through the Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP), will be providing landowners in the West Nishnabotna Watershed technical assistance and cost share to implement conservation practices.This project will implement practices that are aimed to help increase water quality, increase flood resiliency, and protect public infrastructure.
Keeping grain in good condition is important for farmers’ bottom line by allowing them to sell high-grade grain and maintain all their marketing options.
The country’s largest university-sponsored organic conference will return Nov.