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Officials with the Carstens 1880’s Farmstead (located between Minden and Shelby) have announced the annual potato harvest, or digging, has been postponed due to the recent heavy rainfall. Officials had announced last June that the Annual Carstens Farm Days would be postponed until 2021, but the potato harvest would go on this Saturday, Sept. 12th. However,the weather has forced the event to be delayed until Saturday, Sept. 19th.
Those who attend Carstens Farm Days know that the soil on the farm grows a large crop of flavorful potatoes each year. The public is invited to come to the farm on Sept. 19th, and gather the freshly dug potatoes.
Carstens Board of Directors President Mel Hursey says that the farm’s gate will be open to the public from 10 am – 4 pm on Saturday, September 19. Potatoes will be on the ground and on a trailer as in past years. Hursey said “The rain has been good to get but it is too muddy in the potato patch now. We’re postponing the potato digging until we’re able to take a tractor and potato digger through without getting stuck.”
The Carstens Board of Directors is asking that a donation be made to the farm by anyone who gathers potatoes. The donation will be used to help with the maintenance of the farm. Hursey added, “We’ve got a bumper crop of potatoes. We’ll welcome folks to come out, keep a safe social distance and gather a supply of good spuds.”
Clarinda – The Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has relaxed the fishing regulations at Pioneer Park Pond in Page County to allow anglers to more freely harvest fish before the pond is renovated this fall.
Pioneer Park Pond has suffered from numerous summer fish kills due to its shallow depth and significant algal blooms. The quality of the sportfish community has declined due to abundant populations of common carp and black bullhead.
Page County Conservation Board will begin to drain the pond at the end of September for the renovation project. Planned improvements include targeted dredging, construction of a forebay area to reduce sedimentation in the pond, fishing jetty construction, elimination of injurious fish including common carp and black bullhead, and fish habitat improvements.
Anglers with a valid sport fishing license may harvest all sizes and unlimited quantities of any species of fish from Pioneer Park Pond. Any number of fishing poles or jug fishing is allowed. Anglers must remain in sight of these lines at all times, and follow all other fishing regulations and area rules. Trot lines will be allowed (name and address must be attached), however lines may not be set across the entire water body.
Liberalized fishing regulations for Pioneer Park Pond will be in effect through Oct. 15. Specific regulation changes include:
Dynamite, poison, electric shocking devices or any stupefying substances are not allowed. It is illegal to sell fish or stock captured fish into public waters.
The DNR will restock the pond after the project is complete and the pond has refilled.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 8, 2020 — Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated 13 Iowa counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in Adair, Audubon, Boone, Calhoun, Carroll, Cass, Crawford, Dallas, Greene, Guthrie, Sac, Shelby and Webster counties who suffered losses due to recent drought may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
This natural disaster designation allows FSA to extend much-needed emergency credit to producers recovering from natural disasters. Emergency loans can be used to meet various recovery needs including the replacement of essential items such as equipment or livestock, reorganization of a farming operation or the refinance of certain debts.
Producers in the contiguous Iowa counties of Adams, Buena Vista, Cherokee, Hamilton, Harrison, Humboldt, Ida, Madison, Monona, Montgomery, Pocahontas, Polk, Pottawattamie, Story, Union, Warren, Woodbury and Wright are also eligible to apply for emergency loans.
The deadline to apply for these emergency loans is April 26, 2021. FSA will review the loans based on the extent of losses, security available and repayment ability.
(Radio Iowa) – The Iowa Department of Natural Resources has created a new free online database for sharing venison. Iowa D-N-R Wildlife Bureau chief Todd Bishop, says the deer exchange helps everyone share in the resource. “We have a high availability of deer tags of course — and we know there are a lot of hunters who are willing to share venison once they’ve shot enough to fill their freezer,” Bishop says.
Bishop says there have long been information networks for sharing in counties. He says sheriff departments often have a list of people willing to take a fresh roadkill deer and Bishop says this exchange is an effort to get people together who are willing to donate deer and those who would like to have some venison. It is illegal to sell the deer, the hunters have to donate it. Bishop says the exchange lets those looking for deer provide some details for both parties.
“They can use that application to contact people that are close to their county or community and figure it out from there. It is just an information exchange,” Bishop says. He says the exchange also gives the donors information on what is needed. “You can indicate whether you would take a field-dressed whole deer or if you would prefer to take meat that was bone out or ground already. Donors can also what they would be willing to provide,” Bishop explains.
He says the deer population promises to provide hunters with a lot of opportunities again this year. “Our harvest has been pretty steady the last several years. We think there will be a lot of deer harvested this fall,” Bishop says. “We see it, and we think Iowans see that as a great resource.” BIshop says anyone interested in the program should go to the Iowa D-N-R website (www.iowadnr.gov) and click on the deer hunting section to learn more. The first youth deer season opens September 19th. The first shotgun deer season opens December 9th.
MANCHESTER, Iowa (AP) — An eastern Iowa hog farmer has been sentenced to life in prison in the death of his wife, who was impaled in the back with a corn rake. Iowa District Court Judge Thomas Bitter issued the required sentence of life without parole Friday for 44-year-old Todd M. Mullis. He was convicted in September 2019 in the death of his wife, 39-year-old Amy Mullis, on the couple’s farm near Earlville.
Mullis has maintained his innocence. Prosecutors say Mullis was furious that his wife was having an affair and feared he’d lose their farm if she divorced him. The sentencing hearing was postponed four times because of restrictions related to the coronavirus.
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