Adams County ISU Extension & Outreach

08/25/2026

08/25/2026

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08/24/2026

Corning Gun Club and Adams County Safety Education and Shooting Sports (SESS) hosted a regional 4H shoot with participants for East Pottawattamie, Page, and Adams County on August 23rd. The results from the shoot are posted below!

Shotgun: Senior
1st Place Colin Cahill, East Pottawattamie (EP)
2nd Place Laila Sanchez, EP

Intermediate
1st Place Nash Grau, Adams

Junior
1st Place Nate McLain, Page
2nd Place Blake Scott, EP

Air Rifle: Senior
1st Place, Ellie Amdor, Adams
2nd Place, Levi Haffner, Page

Intermediate
1st Place Avery Amdor, Adams
2nd Place Brooke Bane, EP

Junior
1st place, Taylor Cahill, EP
2nd place, Ansley Becker, EP
3rd place, Braxton Inman, Adams
4th place, Elijah Cahill, EP

Archery: Senior
1st place, Jayden Haffner, Page
2nd place, Ellie Amdor, Adams

Intermediate:
1st place, Brooke Bane, EP

Junior, compound
1st Place, Ansley Becker

Junior Genesis
1st place, Arlin Grau, Adams
2nd place, Blake Scott, EP
3rd place, Braxton Inman, Adams
4th place, Stephen Burnham, Adams

08/20/2026

The office will be CLOSED until 1:00 PM on Monday, August 24th as we are collecting State Fair projects from the fair!

08/20/2026

Adams County youth had a good turnout at the State Fair this year!🍀 If you haven't made it up there yet, there's still a few more days left to go check out how talented these youth are!

08/18/2026

The office will be CLOSED tomorrow on Wednesday, August 19th.

08/14/2026

Wednesday we rounded out our day camps with sensory day! Campers explored the five different senses of taste, touch, smell, hearing and sight.

We guessed what was in our "mystery bags", played with play dough, gave stamp art a try, and finally ate some tasty snacks! It was a perfect way to wrap up our summer camps, we can't wait for next summer!!😊

08/13/2026

Preserves, jellies, and jams, oh my! Tuesday we hosted our jam making camp! Participants learned about the different types of canning, what supplies to use, and the science behind how it all works!

Campers washed and prepared the kitchen, jars and lids. They carefully cut up the fruit and mashed it all up. Then added A LOT of sugar! Once their jam was cooked, they learned how to carefully measure out the right amount of jam into jars and used the hot bath canning method to preserve it!

It was a fun (but sticky) day and each camper got to take home two jars of their very own jam! A huge thank you to Montgomery County's very own Ashley Wilson for our jam lesson!

08/12/2026

Last Thursday was a day full of fairytale adventures! Campers got to fully immerse themselves into our book by trying a tasty treat of chips and salsa.

We also got a full tour of the library from librarian Alyssa Ogburn! Finally, we colored bookmarks and tackled library bingo. It was a wonderful afternoon full of literature!

Huge shoutout and a BIG thank you to the Corning Public Library for letting us use your space!

08/05/2026

Join us this Thursday evening for more information on creating a farmland leasing arrangement. This workshop will be helpful to both landowners and tenants.

🚫 What you WON'T learn at this meeting: how much you should charge/pay per acre.

👍What you WILL learn: how to sit down with your tenant/landlord to develop a lease that works for both of you and how to keep lines of communication open. Plus you will receive a Farmland Leasing handbook with lots of examples and reference information.
Please sign up by emailing [email protected] or call 641-782-8426.