Agri News, MN
09-25-07
Iowa news and notes
Tri-State ag lender's seminar to meet in Dubuque
DUBUQUE, Iowa -- The Tri-State Agriculture Lender's Seminar will be 9:45 a.m.
to 3 p.m. Nov. 1 at the Midway Best Western Hotel in Dubuque.
The focus will be on market outlooks for livestock, grains and dairy.
Robert Cropp, University of Wisconsin-Extension dairy marketing specialist, will
present a dairy outlook and policy update; Joy Kirkpatrick will discuss
Transferring the Family Farm; Larry Tranel will present Milking Systems from
Low Cost Parlors to Robotic Milking; Brenda Boetel will give an livestock
marketing update; Kevin Bernhardt will present the DuPont Financial System;
and Robert Tigner will give a Grain Marketing and Risk Management Update.
The cost of the program is $40 by Oct. 25. To register, contact Larry Tranel at
ISU Extension in Dubuque County at (563) 583-6496.
Iowa manure applicators must get certified
AMES, Iowa -- Iowa manure applicators should be certified now.
Manure applicators who haul or handle manure from a confinement site facility
with more than 500 animal units and all commercial manure applicators are
required by Iowa law to be certified.
"Producers with new facilities, expanded facilities and in particular producers with
newly built confinement beef barns are reminded to check their animal units and
meet certification requirements, if necessary,'' said Angie Rieck-Hinz, Iowa
State University Extension program specialist.
Confinement site applicators must attend two hours of annual training to maintain
a three-year license.