Davis County has become a leader in Iowa in the formation of grazing associations. A total of seven have been established in the state, five of them in Davis County. A grazing association is a "membeer-owned, member-operated and member-managed…
Special certificates were presented to four farmers and Iowa Soil Conservation Awards program honors were presented to three others at the annual meeting of the Davis County Soil Conservation District . Dan Murphy, Des Moines public relations and…
Davis County farmers wishing to contour their cultivated fields should contact the Soil Conservation Service Office for assistance in laying out contour guide lines, reported Richard Codes, soil conservtionist of the local office
Awards were presented to Davis County farmers for their accomplishments in soil conservation. The awards were presented at the annual banquet meeting of the Davis County Soil Conservation District held at the American Legion Hall.
Lee Barnett of Ottumwa and Roscoe Brown of Bloomfield have been named regional winners in the Iowa Soil Conservation Achievement Awards Program Division II for landlords-tenants. The region covers 13 counties. The program is sponsored by the Des…
The 1967 Agricultural Conserservation Program (ACP) aided 479 farmers in Davis County in establishing soil, woodland, water, wildlife conservation measures on 7995
acres, Vern Henderson Chairman, Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation County…
One of the largest one-year fellowships ever awarded at
Iowa State University has gone to Stewart W Melvin of rural Bloomfield, a 1964 graduate of ISU.
