Franklin County
Bucket/Bottle Calf Workshop

 

For those enrolled in the Dairy & Meat Goat project ares!!!!

May 25-26, 2013

Davis County Fairgrounds - Bloomfield, Iowa

The NEW Cooperative Foundation is pleased to announce that the 2013 Scholarship Program will award at least five $2,000 scholarships to area students.  To qualify, the student must be a dependent of a NEW Cooperative member or full-time employee and must be pursuing an agricultural college degree.  The scholarships are open to graduating high school seniors, college freshmen, sophomores and juniors.  Award recipients will be selected based also on their academic achievements, leadership potential and desire to pursue a future career in agriculture.

AMES, Iowa — Iowa State University Forestry Extension is offering the Iowa Community Tree Steward Program to the residents of Webster and all surrounding counties beginning May 15. The class will be held on Thursday evenings from 6 to 10 p.m. and one Saturday, June 8th from 8 to 5.

Research shows that children who get everything they want grow up to be greedy, materialistic, self-centered adults. However, parents can raise their children to focus on other things. Join us in December and view a podcast!

Giving to grandchildren doesn’t have to involve money or gift-wrapped packages. As the grandkids head back to school, consider sharing nutrition tips or a love for lifelong learning, said Malisa Rader, a family life program specialist with Iowa State University Extension and Outreach. These types of gifts, along with taking an interest in children’s school activities, can contribute to their success in school.

You have heard of “Sweating to the Oldies” -- well, how about “Sweating in the Garden” this year at the 2012 Home Demonstration Garden Field Days?  Sorry – but sweating in the garden is bound to happen this year with all our heat, even with evening field days. There is nothing like a little bit of “truth in advertising” right?  But seriously, finding truth in advertising is what this series of field days is all about.  Every year several ISU Research Farms host field days that showcase different vegetables and annual flowers to the public.  We pick the plants and themes for the garden in the winter while perusing various gardening catalogs and websites.  All we have to go by for selecting these plants are the pretty pictures and short paragraphs touting the novelty of each plant.  So, we select some of the newest and most unusual and test them at each garden – six gardens this year.  This means we can test for ourselves how accurate those descriptions really are for Iowa gardens.

Early spring weather sped up plant, tree and shrub growth, making them vulnerable to several nights of cold temperatures this week. Fruit plants and trees were especially hard hit by freezing temperatures.