February 2022

Most area beef producers are getting ready to or have already started calving. If you are not already doing so, this would be a great year to start tagging all your calves at birth with individual tags that can be matched back to their mothers. The table below shows a handy way to use the international letter codes and incorporate them into your tagging system to keep track of birth year. This is especially useful for producers that raise and keep their own replacement heifers back in the herd. As the years pass by, producers that use these letter codes are able to know the ages of their cows by simply looking at their ear tags. Additional information that should be recorded at birth would be birth date, sex of calf and whether or not assistance was provided at delivery. One area that I think northwest Missouri cow-calf producers could certainly improve on is record keeping and a great place to start would be this calving season.

GRM Networks is promoting consumer awareness about the Affordable Connectivity Program, a new program from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). This benefit will help lower the cost of broadband Internet service for eligible households. The $14 billion Affordable Connectivity Program provides a discount of $30 per month toward broadband Internet service for eligible households.

Ongoing Sewing Class at the Brookfield YMCA. Free sewing class on Mondays and Thursdays at 10 a.m.

The Linn County Commission met on Jan. 18 with Commissioners Dick King, Glen Murrain, Josh Muck and County Clerk Suzan Stephenson present. Presiding Commissioner King called the meeting to order. The agenda was reviewed.

First-ever Brookfield Disc Golf Tournament Veterans for Vets Brookfield’s first-ever Disc Golf Tournament: Veterans for Vets, will be held at the Essig Family McDonalds Disc Golf Course at South City Park in Brookfield, on Feb. 26, to benefit the Brookfield VFW.