Topics of interest from the Boone County Board of Supervisors May 25

Welcomed guest was David Weaver, a Boone County farmer and official Boone County representative to the Beaver Creek Watershed Management Authority (WMA). Weaver praised the efforts of Watershed Project Coordinator, Laura James, employed since November for a three-year period through an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Farmer to Farmer Grant. They have also hired Iowa Cover Crop, a business out of the Rippey area, to assist farmers with planting and managing winter cover crops, such as rye, that stabilize phosphorus and nitrogen in the soil.