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The Central City Sportsman’s Club, in collaboration with the Merrick County 4-H Trap Team, hosted its fourth annual gun show last weekend at the Merrick County Fairgrounds. The event drew a significant crowd of firearms enthusiasts, collectors, and community members eager to explore a diverse array of offerings.

The Central City High School FFA Chapter celebrated its newest members and recognized achievements during a special ceremony held Monday, Nov. 18. The evening included the presentation of FFA jackets to new members, as well as the awarding of Chapter and Greenhand Degrees. The event highlighted the chapter’s commitment to fostering leadership, personal growth, and career success in agricultural education.

Comrades, community, and charity. These are the values the St. Michael Catholic Church hold dear to themselves. This is the fifteenth year the church will be hosting their annual community Thanksgiving dinner at the St. Michael Parish Hall.

Guns, grub, and good times are on the horizon this weekend, as the Central City Sportsman’s Club along with the 4H Trap Team are putting on their fourth annual gun show. Instead of putting on a gun show in front of the mirror, come down to the fairgrounds for a far superior one. The club will have a hundred tables set out for the event, filled with marvelous firearms of all shapes and sizes. Even a few custom knife makers will be selling and showing off their wares at the event. In addition to firearms and knives, meals are being cooked and provided by the wives of the club members. Patrons are encouraged to bulk up on this fine cuisine, so their gun shows in the mirror can almost match the caliber of the actual event.

Kappa Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma Society International met on October 17, 2024, for a short meeting and day of annual project work. Members gathered at Palmer’s St. John Lutheran Church at 9:30 for rolls, coffee and brief conversation, before the business meeting.

As the 2024 growing season comes to an end, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) will contact producers nationwide to gather final yearend crop production numbers and the amount of grain and oilseeds stored on their farms. At the same time, NASS will survey grain facility operators to determine year-end grain and oilseed stocks stored in commercial facilities.

There were 212,714 farms with 53.1 million irrigated acres, which included 81 million acre-feet of water applied in the United States, according to the 2023 Irrigation and Water Management Survey results, published today by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). In 2018, the irrigation survey results showed that there were 231,474 farms with 55.9 million irrigated acres, which included 83.4 million acre-feet of water. The results show that the number of farms irrigating, the amount of land irrigated, and the total water used for irrigation decreased between 2018 and 2023.