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Women Landowners Meeting

Farm Bureau 3rd Grade Ag Day

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Area 4 Annual Meeting

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Jacob Manternach

To find your local SWCD Office, select your county on the map by visiting the following website: http://idals.iowa.gov/FARMS/index.php/districtMap.

This year’s deadline was February 26. Scholarships chosen at the County level will go on to compete against others at the Regional and possibly State level. Awards range from $4000 for the top State, $600 in Regional and

$250 at County.

This year’s winner at County level is Jacob Manternach, who currently attends Clarke Community High School in

Osceola.

Jake received his $250 check at the awards banquet on May 18th.

CDI is partnering with local soil and water conservation

districts (SWCD) to foster the higher education endeavors of Iowa students interested in conservation and agriculture by offering scholarships.

Iowa High School Class 2016 Students pursuing programs of study in any field of conservation or agriculture qualifies for the Conservation Scholarship. While this is a wide field and many studies qualify, reference will be given to students

pursuing programs of study in conservation. The scholarship must be used for the student’s first year of

college education.

Scholarship Recipient

Each year, NACD holds a poster competition by grade (K-1st grade, 2nd-3rd, 4th-6th, 7th-9th, and 10th-12th) to choose the art that will accompany the year's theme. The poster contest is open to public, private, and home-schooled students.

This year’s theme for the 2016 Conservation Poster Contest is “We All Need Trees.” Participation was down this year due to area Spring Break during the month the posters were due, but the Clarke County Soil & Water Conservation District hopes that next year there will be a larger turnout. This year’s participants will receive a coupon for a free food item from Casey’s.

The top winner in each division is sent on to compete at the regional level. There are nine regions that encompass the 99 counties of Iowa. Region 8 is comprised of 10 counties, with only one winner from each age division being chosen. Clarke County had two district winners that were sent to compete regionally. Out of those, there was one that placed first in their age division. Regional winners were officially announced last week and will receive a certificate and a check for $35.

Alyssa Kent who was a third grader at Clarke Elementary, won in the 2nd-3rd grade division.

State winners were chosen from the regional finalists and will receive a certificate and a check for $50 and be on display at the 2016 Annual Conference in August. They will then be submitted to the national poster contest for consideration for a national award and to be displayed at the 2017 NACD Annual Meeting in February.

Congratulations to Alyssa and Clarke County SWCD hopes to see more poster entries from the K-12 students next year.