DES MOINES – Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey today announced that he will be visiting Ida, Cherokee, Sioux and Plymouth Counties on Monday, July 23rd as part of his efforts to visit each of Iowa’s 99 counties again in 2012.
Northey will visit the Ida County Fair in Ida Grove, tour Little Sioux Corn Processors in Marcus, tour Van Beek Natural Science in Orange City and then visit Remsen Processing in Remsen. All events are open to the press.
The details of the visits follow here:
Monday, July 23, 2012
Ida County – 10:30 a.m., visit Ida County Fair, 2332 Hwy 59, Ida Grove
Cherokee County – 12:30 p.m., tour Little Sioux Corn Processors, 4808 F Ave., Marcus
Sioux County – 2:00 p.m., tour Van Beek Natural Science, 3689 460th St., Orange City
Plymouth County – 3:30 p.m., tour Remsen Processing Center, 230 S. Washington, Remsen
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.
