DES MOINES – Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey today announced that he will be visiting Jackson, Dubuque and Delaware Counties on Thursday, July 26th as part of his efforts to visit each of Iowa’s 99 counties again in 2012.
Northey will visit the Jackson County Fair in Maquoketa, the Dubuque County Fair in Dubuque and then speak to the Delaware County Farm Bureau annual meeting in Manchester. All events are open to the press.
The details of the visits follow here:
Thursday, July 26, 2012
Jackson County – 1:00 p.m., visit Jackson County Fair, 1212 E. Quarry St., Maquoketa
Dubuque County – 3:00 p.m., visit Dubuque County Fair, 14569 Old Hwy Road, Dubuque
Delaware County – 6:30 p.m., address Delaware County Farm Bureau annual meeting, Delaware County Community Center, 200 E. Acres St., Manchester
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.
