Accomplishments and challenges of the district are outlined in this report. The District joined with Lee, Henry, and Louisa and counties to apply for an RC&D Resource Conservation and Development project named the Geode Wonderland Project.
Deb Nace and Jeff Bergman present Dennis Petersen with Owner/Operation and Overall Award at the Ag Expo. Dennis was chosen because of his extensive timber management, tree plantings and CRP in Benton Township. This award was presented at the…
This document is a supplemental Memorandum of Understanding between the Des Moines County Soil Conservation District and the Soil Conservation Service - United States Department of Agriculture. That Memorandum establishes a basis for the cooperation…
This program attempts to set forth soil conservation and land use ·problems of Des Moines County and to state what the district desires to achieve. This document gives a history of how and when the service was started and the desire to control the…
This memorandum serves as a basis of cooperation between the new Des Moines County Soil Conservation District and the Iowa Agricultural Extension Service in the conservation of soil and water resources and the control and prevention of erosion as…
Deb Nace and Jeff Bergman present tenant Dwayne Wright with landlord/tenant award at the Ag Expo. Everett Toft, , the land owner, was not at the presentation . Everett and Dwayne were selected for the establishment of terraces, a farm pond, CRP and…
A letter from Ralph E. Dewey, District Conservationist, points out that the attached Iowa highway map for Des Moines County shows floodplain areas that would be a flooding problem without levees.
R.H. Musser, Regional Conservator of the Soil Conservation Service in Milwaukee, Wisconsin recommends this article from New Republic where H.H. Bennett points out the disadvantages of the turning plow and welcomes the advantages of new types that are…
