Story County Farm Bureau

02/18/2026

🥩 Eat Beef 🥩

This morning, students at Nevada High School were able to get hands on experience with meat cutting and beef basics. With a few topics including:

🐮 Live animal to carcass weight information, shrinkage and yield percentage
🐮quick basics of retail meat cuts
🐮Yield Grades and characteristics that go into yield grades
🐮Marbling, USDA Quality Grades, and labeling

Towards the end of the class, everyone was able to cut and trim Fareway Meat Market Ames T-Bone and porterhouse steaks into their own NY strips and filet mignons (the cuts of meat we can get from a porterhouse or T-Bone!) Located in the short loin, the students had to find the direction of muscle fibers, marbling of their steaks, and grade their steaks. At the end of the day, the kids were able to take home their own steaks!

Nevada High School FFA
Central Iowa Agriculture in the Classroom

01/26/2026

Quick highlights from the 2026 Iowa Farm Bureau Young Farmer’s Conference 📸🤳🏻

roughly 500 young farmers and ag professionals gathered from across the state of Iowa to attend the conference - the event was filled with great breakout sessions, speakers, entertainment and more!

Story County Farm Bureau board members and directors were excited to attend and actively participate in planning the wonderful two days! 🗣️😃

11/25/2025

🏈Congrats to the Nevada High School Football Team on winning the State Championship!🏈

In celebration of their incredible achievement on Friday, Story County Farm Bureau Board Member and Nevada High School Board President, Marty Chitty, joined the post game festivities to present the Iowa Farm Bureau issued footballs to the team. What an amazing accomplishment! Way to go Cubs! 🥳🏅

10/28/2025

🌟 Join the journey with the Central IA Ag in the Classroom page to stay up to date on all their exciting adventures!

First up: your Story County Ag in the Classroom Coordinator! Be sure to follow along and get to know the incredible women working behind the scenes to bring ag education to life. 🌽

🌽Central Iowa Ag in the Classroom is BACK to Facebook! 🚜

We have been busy bringing agriculture to life in classrooms across our region! Tag along to our page to see what we have been up to, meet our coordinators, and see all the lessons we have in store!

We're kicking things off with a strong start -

Please meet the Story County Ag in the Classroom Coordinator - Sadie Oberbroeckling!

09/29/2025

🗣Calling all Young Farmers!

Need something to do on a Sunday Afternoon? Join us on October 5th at Deals Orchard for an afternoon of fun!

Please contact Michael or Ashley McEnany (listed) for any questions involving the event. See you all there!

09/05/2025

SCFB Voting Delegate, Derrick Black attended the 2025 Iowa Farm Bureau's Summer Policy Conference this last week in West Des Moines.

The Summer Policy Conference is the final step in Farm Bureau’s grassroots policy development process where voting delegates will determine policy direction for the organization. A voting delegate representative or President from each county is asked to participate in the policy and official business sessions being conducted.

09/05/2025

Need Sunday Plans?

Sunday, September 7th - Attend C.A.P.O.O.T. Tractor Ride!
Collins is holding their 'Collins Area People On Old Tractors' Day!

The day starts at 1:00 PM for tractor registration and Line-up on Main Street. There is a $25 Registration fee - which will include break and supper for participants!

2:00 PM - Tractor Departure! Which includes 12 mph and 15 mph Routes.

5:30 PM - Supper Time! This is held at Collins Area Community Center (219 Main St. )

free-will donation, provided by the Collins Christian Church. Benefit Event for Obria Medical Clinics. Supper is OPEN to the PUBLIC!

Loaner tractors are available - call Dave Struthers at 515-231-7955

08/06/2025

Just a few photo highlights from our 2025 Membership Appreciation Dinner held last night! We were able to recognize a few of our 2025 Scholarship Winners; Owen Johnson, John Craig and Abigail Thompson - congrats to you!

THANK YOU to Branding Iron Catering - for our fantastic food, and to Holly Schnur from Verbio for a wonderful speech!

We want to thank everyone who took the time and came to our event, it was a great turn out! 🤩

07/28/2025

REMINDER: Please RSVP to the Member Appreciation Dinner!

The Story County Farm Bureau will host their annual Member Appreciation Dinner on TUESDAY, August 5th at the Story County Fairgrounds.

Please call the office at 515-382-2451 or email story.county@ifbf.org today!

07/22/2025

✨THANK YOU✨ to everyone who braved the flooding at the Story County Fair Grounds and attended our fair breakfast on Sunday, July 20th. We are grateful to you all!

We were able to feed roughly 350 people, and sold out of all of our supplies! With your generosity, all proceeds are going towards the Story County Fair Association.

06/30/2025

Story County Ag in the Classroom Coordinator, Sadie Oberbroeckling, had the opportunity to attend the National Ag in the Classroom Conference in Minnesota last week. What an opportunity!

Take a quick look into the Traveling Tour at the University of Minnesota and a glimpse of our fun week we all had the chance of attending!

06/18/2025

We see some familiar Story County faces! 🧐

Congratulations to Story Co. Board Member Michael McEnany on being named IFB Young Farmer Chair and his wife Ashley on being named PR Co-Chair for 2025-2026!

Story County Proud! 🎉

We’re thrilled to introduce our 2025-2026 Executive Committee! 🎉

Please join us in congratulating the dedicated leaders guiding the future of the Young Farmer program:

Chair: Michael McEnany
Vice-Chair: Tyler Woodward
Secretary: Abby Woodward
PR Co-Chairs: Tim Cohoon & Ashley McEnany

Thank you for your passion and commitment - we can’t wait to see all you accomplish this year!