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DES MOINES – Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey today announced that he will be visiting Sioux, Lyon and O’Brien Counties on Monday, March 21 and Tuesday, March 22 as part of his efforts to visit each of Iowa’s 99 counties again in 2011.
On Monday, March 21 Northey will be speaking to participants in Ag Education Tours hosted by Dordt College in Sioux Center and then host a town meeting in Rock Rapids. On Tuesday, March 22, he will speak to members of the Farmers Co-op Society in Sioux Center and Sheldon. The media are invited to all events.
The details of the visits follow here:
Monday, March 21, 2011
Sioux County – 12:00 p.m., Speak to High School students participating in Education Ag Tours, Dordt Campus Center, 498 4th Ave., NE, Sioux Center
Lyon County – 3:00 p.m., Town Meeting, Farm Bureau office, 710 2nd Ave., Rock Rapids
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Sioux and O’Brien Counties – Speak to Farmers Co-op Society Meetings:
9:30 a.m. – Speak at the Ridge Golf Club, 2595 Ridge Rd., Sioux Center
1:30 p.m. – Speak at Sheldon Community Center, Corner of 9th and 4th Ave., Sheldon
Northey, a corn and soybean farmer from Spirit Lake, is serving his second term as Secretary of Agriculture. His priorities as Secretary of Agriculture are promoting the use of science and new technologies to better care for our air, soil and water, and reaching out to tell the story of Iowa agriculture. |
