Farmers from the North Wyacondah area voted to submit a petition to seek assistance for a water shed under the Watershed Prevention and Flood Prevention Act. The watershed area covers 72,000 acres of which 19,000 are in Davis County, 4000 acres in…
Sweepstakes award winners in the 1962 Iowa Soil Conservation Achievement Awards are announced in 9 regions. The awards are sponsored by the Des Moines Register and Tribune and the Iowa Farm and Home Register
The local Soil Conservation District is predicting an increasing use of tile in Davis County. Donald Altheide, farmer of 10 miles southeast of, Bloomfield, is pioneering what's thought to be the "'"biggest system in existence in Davis county. The…
Raymond Howard and Clifford Winger of Ottumwa, are building a new feedlot and automatic system for feeding
1,000 or more beef cattle a year on ' a 550-acre Davis county farm six miles north of Bloomfield. It is to be one of the largest cattle…
