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Archery is experiencing a wave of popularity thanks in part to the Hunger Games series and to Iowa?s expanding archery in the schools program, according to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources.In conjunction with the release of ?Hunger Games: Catching Fire? on Friday, the Iowa DNR will be giving away a brand new Matthews Genesis Bow valued at $200.To enter the drawing, watch the movie, save the ticket and ...

Another holiday season has arrived, and it won?t be long before the red kettles of The Salvation Army appear in front of the Fairfield Hy-Vee and Walmart stores.Since Thanksgiving comes as late as it can this year, organizers are hoping to have the kettles available for volunteers to ring bells beginning Saturday and continue from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays, excluding Thanksgiving Day, through ...

Vickie Malloy, left, presents the baby quilt her husband, Fairfield Mayor Ed Malloy, crafted during a recent Fairfield 1st Fridays Art Walk, to NEST Coordinator Lynne Johnson at the Jefferson County ISU Extension Office. Judie Herzog of the Northside Strippers Quilt Club explained three competitors selected their own material and sewed their own quilt. Art walkers voted on their favorite by dropping donations in ...

BIRMINGHAMThe Over 50 and Fabulous Red Hat Ladies met recently for lunch at the Birmingham Lions Building.Seventeen were present. The guest, Zina Hardin, gave the program.Hardin has been in charge of Christmas for Kids in Van Buren County for 31 years. She makes sure each child and family has toys and food boxes for Christmas.Donna Corry won the door prize.The Lions served the lunch. Barb Anderson and Donna ...

Iowa pheasant hunters can expect to find the best bird numbers in northwest, north central and central Iowa and while the number of birds in the field is well below peak years, good hunting opportunities do exist.?Even with low counts some hunters will have excellent hunts and plenty of opportunities and others will be able to flush a bird or two and put one in the bag,? said Todd Bogenschutz, upland wildlife ...

DES MOINES ? Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey is encouraging Iowans to consider visiting a local apple orchard this fall.Apples are maturing, so now is a great time to visit an apple farm or pick some up at the local farmers market.?While the cool, wet spring challenged many Iowa farmers, it has been near perfect weather for Iowa?s apple trees and the result is many orchards are reporting a bumper ...

An estimated 50,000 archery deer hunters will climb into tree stands in Iowa, and an untold number will fall.One in every three hunters who hunt from a tree stand will fall at some point in their hunting career, and of those, 75 to 80 percent occurs while ascending or descending the tree.Nationally, 300 to 500 hunters are killed annually in tree stand accidents and another 6,000 will have tree stand related ...

Avoid fall plowing to leave food, cover for wildlife Fall tillage practices, even reduced tillage techniques such as disking and chisel plowing, can eliminate waste grains and crop residue that provides important food and cover for species such as pheasants, quail, partridge, turkey, and deer.Studies of harvested untilled crop fields show wildlife consume 55-85 percent of the waste corn and soybeans between ...