The 2024 Dickens County Junior Livestock Show will have a new event this year and will kick off the show with the crowning of the Stock Show Royalty Friday, Jan. 19 at 2 p.m. at the Ag Barn at Swenson Park in Spur.
REMINDER All are invited to attend a groundbreaking ceremony for Dickens County’s newest industry, the Burksol Battery Energy Storage System project by esVolta, on Thursday, Jan. 11.
It’s livestock show time again in Kent County, a tradition that exceeds eight decades of featuring local 4-H and FFA youngsters and their animals. The show is scheduled for Friday and Saturday, Jan. 12–13, 2024, at the Kent County Stock Show Barn in Clairemont. No school classes are scheduled for Jayton-Girard ISD on Friday, Jan. 12.
In Dickens County, we’re fortunate to have quite a few experts on local history— some, from their depth of reading, others, from visiting sites of the past, and still others, from living it.
announced that agricultural producers can now enroll in the Farm Service Agency’s (FSA) Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) and Price Loss Coverage (PLC) programs for the 2024 crop year. Producers can enroll and make election changes for the 2024 crop year starting Dec. 18, 2023. The deadline to complete enrollment and any election change is March 15, 2024.