LAND AUCTION IN MADISON, ADAIR, UNION COUNTIES

697.5 Acres Adair, Madison & Union Counties, Iowa
Friday, February 3, 2012 10:00 a.m.

Sale Site: Jackson Building, Madison County Fairgrounds, 1146 W. Summit St. Winterset, Iowa

Parcel 1: 416 acres m/l located Sec. 10 Union Plat, Adair County
Location from Macksburg: 4 1/2 miles wet on G61 (Macksburg Road) to Vinton Ave., North 1 mile.
General Description: Combination of crop and pasture. Terraced and tiled. Improvements include 1 1/2 sty. 2015 sq. ft. home. Grain storage: 10,800 bin w/dryer, 9700 bu. Bin w.fan & 7,000 bu. dry bin. Additional outbuildings plus modern home. Taxes: $7,450 Ave. CSR rating: 61.6 Predominate soil types: Sharpsburg & Shelby
FSA Info: Cropland - 376.7 Corn Base - 193.4 Corn Yield - 97 Bean Base 69.6 Bean Yield - 38 Wheat Base - 1.2 Wheat Yield - 27

Parcel #2: 74 acres located in Union County
Location from Macksburg: 5 miles west on G61 to P39, south 3 miles.
General Description: 66 acres of cropland. Taxes: $1,126.00. Ave. CSR Rating: 53. Predominate Soil Type: Colo Ely silty clay loam & Sharpsburg.

Parcel #3: 195 acres located in Madison County
Location from Macksburg: On G61 (Macksburg Road) south edge of town.
General Description: 195 acres m/l of which 148.27 acres are cropland, plus approx. 40 acres of beautiful timber & hunting. Taxes: $1,444.00. Ave. CSR Rating: 40. Predominate Soil Types: Shelby, Colo-Ely & Lamoni
FSA Info: Cropland - 148.3 Corn Base - 62.2 Corn Yield - 97 Bean Base - 28.8 Bean Yield - 38 Wheat Base - 8.0 Wheat Yield 37

Parcel #4: 12.5 acres located in Madison County
Location from Macksburg: 1 1/2 miles east on G61 (Macksburg Road)
General Description: Improvements include a single story 2 BR home, 1980 sq. ft. Built in 2004. Finished walkout basement w/ bedroom family room & bath. Att. garage, plus barn and several smaller out buildings and grain bins. 140,00 bu. grain storage: Aeration bin: 80,000 bu. (2-3 yrs. old), Aeration bin: 40,000 bu., Dryer Bin: 20,000 bu. All bins are with aeration floors, fans, spreaders, ladders, & augers!
Taxes: $3534.00 FSA Info: Cropland - 4.6 Corn Base - 2.8 Corn Yield - 97 Bean Base - 28.8 Bean Yield - 38 Wheat Base - 8 Wheat Yield -37

Terms: Cash, 10% down payment day of auction with balance due on or about February 15, 2012 at closing. Possession at closing! Farm leases have been terminated, ending February 29, 2012.

Jamison Irrevocable Trust
Daugherty Auction and Real Estate Services, Inc.
Kelly Daugherty, Chad Daugherty - Auctioneers
Adel, Iowa (515) 993-4159 Email: d_auction@hotmail.com
Website: www.daughertyauction.com

The Des Moines River Timber Ghost Chapter of the NWTF donated 32 frozen turkeys to the local food pantries and woman shelters last month. A special thanks to Fareway foods for supplying us with the turkeys.

The chapter also attented an NWTF awards banquet in Cedar Rapids and received two awards: One for the most improved banquest by % contributions. The second award was for most improved $ at a banquet. The banquet staff would like to thank everyone that attented last years banquet, without your support and contributions our success would not have been attainable. We would also like to encourage anyone to attend our next baquet on March 2, 2012 at the Webster County Fairgrounds Building.

Des Moines River Timber Ghost NWTF Chapter Staff

Over time, many types of building skills have been lost to modern manufacturing. A skill that is still used today, as it has been for generations, is bow building. If you have an interest in building your own bow with the help of an experienced instructor, this is your chance.
Gene Winter has been building bows for many years and will be sharing his skill with workshop participants on Saturday, February 4 and Sunday, February 5 from 8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. The workshop will be held at the Conservation maintenance shop, which is located behind the Conservation Department’s administrative building at 1890 County Home Road (next to the Abbe Center in rural Marion).
Workshop cost is $200 per person which includes one stave. Additional staves may be purchased for an additional cost. Registration by January 31, 2012 is required by calling
319-892-6485 for further information. The class size is limited.

Auction #1

80 ACRES OF MOL - Monroe Township
Near Beaconsfield. T-69-N, R-28-W, Section 9.
Just out of CRP, higher than average CSR -
January 12-17, 2012

Auction #2

100212 205th Street - Kellerton, Iowa
82.5 Acres MOL of prime hunting ground and CRP.
To be sold in 2 parcels: Parcel 1 is 79 acres, Parcel 2 is 3.5 acres and country home.
January 19-24, 2012

UNITED COUNTRY
CUNNING REAL ESTATE AND LAND AUCTION FARM MANAGEMENT
641-202-1234
WWW.MOUNTAYR.COM
WWW.UNITEDCOUNTRY.COM

Fishing Rod Building Series of classes
Build a fishing rod to your specifications! A fishing
rod building course will be held on February 16, 23, and
March 1 from 6:30-9:30 p.m. at Wickiup Hill Outdoor
Learning Center near Toddville, Iowa. Custom rod builder and naturalist Chuck Ungs, will lead participants through the process of building a St. Croix, Rainshadow or other brand of spinning rod. When finished with this series of classes, you will have a base of knowledge to move on to other rod-building projects. Of course you also get to keep the rod you build.
For additional information or to register, please call Chuck at (319) 892-6485 or e-mail to Chuck.Ungs(at)LinnCounty.org.
Registration and payment by January 20, 2012 is required. Class size is limited. Class cost depends on the brand and model of fishing rod blank and options selected.

This winter Linn County Conservation will again provide the opportunity to build a pair of snowshoes from a kit. Conservation Education Specialist Chuck Ungs will guide participants through the snowshoe building process. Ungs has built 30 plus of these kits to date and has lead more than 100 others in past classes, so is qualified to lead you through the process. Those who have taken the class in the past have been very pleased with the finished shoes and have enjoyed the class. These sets would make a unique gift, functional tools or would be a grand decoration.

The first class will be held the evening of Sunday, December 18. Participants should also plan to attend the other evening sessions on December 20 and 21. These evening classes will start at 7 p.m. and end at 10 p.m. at Wickiup Hill Outdoor Learning Center, near Toddville. Additional evenings will be shorter to coat the shoes with varnish at our shop near the junction of County Home Road and Hwy. 13.

Participants must pre-register and pay by December 13, so kits can be ordered. The $165 class fee includes the cost of a snowshoe kit, a binding set and varnish for each participant. To pre-register or for more details and options please call 319-892-6485 or e-mail Chuck.Ungs at LinnCounty.org . Attendance at all three evening sessions is highly recommended. Kit building typically requires the manual dexterity of someone high school age or older.

With some time invested at home, kits can be completed before New Years. After lacing is completed we will be varnishing the snowshoes on a variety of evenings at the Conservation Department shop near our headquarters. For best results, two or three of these additional evenings will be required to varnish the shoes properly. Class size is limited to 15 individuals.

It seems there is an abundance of pundits espousing their "knowledge" about environmental issues as they pertain to fishing. It's obvious there is a following of bandwagon armchair biologists (and some real biologists who have forgotten how real science works) lining up to sing the praises of lead bans in Iowa. I'm sharing the following SCIENCE-BASED article on lead in fishing. There are people lining up to take lead out of your ammunition, well they plan to do the same with your tackle box, and there is NO defensible argument for this. Read the following, It's a policy statement that is being considered by the Iowa Chapter of the American Fisheries Society. These are fisheries professionals, in the DNR, universities, and private sector in Iowa who's job it is to follow the science, promote water quality and angling. This isn't the only statement they are considering, but it is the one that is based on science and rationality. It seems that is the way it should be.

Tri-State Rod Builders Workshop
Location:
Wickiup Hill Outdoor Learning Center
10260 Morris Hills Road
Toddville , IA

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Description:
Nov 5, 2011 - Saturday

Tri-state Rod Builders Workshop 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. at Wickiup Hill Outdoor Learning Center

Come and learn about rodbuilding with many masters of the art form from throughout the Midwest at a beautiful Nature Center outside of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. We are arranging a variety of topics, demonstrations and exhibitors. Current presenters include Al Hutchison, Steve Cox, Sam Fox, Paul Rohrbacher, Dr. Garry Land, Scott Kleppe and perhaps others.

The meeting is free to anyone interested in rodbuilding from beginners to professionals and all should leave with new thoughts and ideas on how to build better fishing rods. We will take a good will donation to cover food expenses. Chuck's Venison Chili will be featured for the meal again this year. We will be drawing for a limited number of door prizes during the day. Sponsors of the event and door prizes include Batson Enterprises, Bingham Enterprises, Jann's Netcraft, Linn County Conservation Department, MudHole.com, Rodguild.com and Rodmakermagazine.com

Topics we intend to cover this year include lathe use for handles and butt caps, snake skin application, decorative weaving, rod actions explained, rod building trials and errors, and much more.

Part of the program this year will be a show and tell session with the rods folks have brought in to display their craft. We also will have a limited time at the end of the day for a swap meet so bring in anything related to building fishing rods for a bit of buy, sell or trade.

For more information or to RSVP so we can plan an appropriate amount of food please contact Chuck at (319) 892-6485 or at Chuck.Ungs@LinnCounty.org

For those who have built custom rods before - please bring a few along to display your work. We will have racks set up to display all the works of art - it is always a learning experience to see what other folks have designed. During the workshop the last several years we have had visitors here from as many as 6 or 7 states. Hope to see you here.

For directions to Wickiup Hill at 10260 Morris Hills Rd. Toddville, IA 52341 go to this address and scroll to where it says Directions and Map to Wickiup Hill: http://www.mycountyparks.com/County/Linn/Park/Wickiup-Hill-Outdoor-Learning-Center.aspx


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Contact Info:
Chuck Ungs
319-892-6489 or 6485
Chuck.Ungs@LinnCounty.org

As we jogged along keeping in shape after returning from my African safari in 09 my lovely Mrs. said "you know, if you want to get that sheep, you'd better do it while you can still get into shape to do it." Me, I'd already written it off as an impossibility. Armed with her confidence and approval, I found a trip to hunt Dall sheep in Alaska in 2010. I got a nice grizzly bear, but of the many rams I saw, none made full curl. The obsession, however, had been lit.of my wife and father to thank for fulfilling another boyhood dream.

The Iowa Sportsman website is excited to announce the launch of a video library function to all users! Within the next few days’ users of the site will be able to upload and view hunting and fishing videos from their personal collection along with being able to view other member’s videos on the site.

Filming hunts and fishing excursions is becoming more and more popular and that is why we created this. We want to give the users of the site a chance to display their experiences in a lifelike format. There is no better way in doing that than allowing you to show your hunts and fishing trips on the website.

The process to upload and view videos will be extremely easy. To get to the videos home page simply click on the tab in the upper right hand corner of the website. This will take you to a page that has all the different categories of videos that your videos can/will go into. To view the videos you will simply click on the categories you’re interested in and start watching yours’ and other user’s videos.

To upload a video you do the same process as you would to view a video. Click on the homepage video tab in the upper right hand corner of the homepage. Once you get to the landing page you will simply click on the upload tab (bottom right tab). Once at the upload page follow the instructions. After uploaded your video will go into a holding tank to get approved and to get compressed, so give it some time to appear in the category you uploaded it to.

Please give this some time to populate, as it is brand new and will take a while to get a good number of videos posted. We are excited to watch this grow and even more excited to see some great videos from Iowa Sportsmen!

Make sure to read the rules of uploading videos. If you have any questions at all please let us know at nick [at] twinriversmedia [dot] com or send me a PM.

Enjoy,

The Iowa Sportsman Staff