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![Christina Muedeking and Mark Kennett walk his Poweshiek County, Iowa, fields (NRCS photo -- click to enlarge)](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080917064647im_/http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/feature/volunteers/images/meudmed.jpg)
Christina Muedeking and Mark Kennett walk his Poweshiek County, Iowa,
fields (NRCS photo -- click to enlarge) |
Christina Muedeking Walks a Mile in Iowa
Regional Assistant Chief ― Central Christina Muedeking was in Poweshiek County,
Iowa, last week to participate in a Walk a Mile in My Boots exchange requested
by Mark Kennett on his farm near Grinnell.
Christina and Mark visited Arbor Lake, which is an Environmental Protection
Agency non-point source pollution 319 project in Grinnell; the Malcom field
office; and a number of different fields that included no-till, strip-till,
conventional-till and Conservation Reserve Program Highly Erodible Land
converted to cropland.
Mark hosted a luncheon meeting with 20 producers, implement dealers, friends;
representatives from Farm Service Agency; Cooperative Research, Education, and
Extension Service; and the local field office that gave Christina an opportunity
to learn the history of farming in this area and of the challenges farmers face.
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