2012
LOGAN COUNTY FARM OUTLOOK MAGAZINE. LINCOLN DAILY NEWS.com October 23, 2012
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In August, at the Logan County Fair,
Rawlings approached Lincoln Daily News
and talked about one of the requirements
for his project: sharing his findings with the
public. Rawlings asked if LDN would help in
this area by publishing his article in one of
our daily editions.
LDN discussed the project with Rawlings
and his mom, Tracey. We
immediately knew that we
would want to feature the
article in our fall farm special
edition, but were concerned
about time limits for the
project. Rawlings and his
mom assured us that waiting
for this special feature would
be OK.
By putting it in the fall
feature, it is easily printed on
regular letter-sized paper so Rawlings will
be able to print the article and include it in
his final project submission.
Rawlings said he chose to do his project
on genetically modified organisms because,
living in the New Holland area, he was in
close proximity to the Monsanto production
plant in Mason City.
He took a tour of that plant and talked
to people there about genetic advances in
the soybean industries. He also used
several Internet sources to supplement
his research.
In August, he submitted his project at
the Logan County Fair, and it did very
well. It was then submitted at the Illinois
State Fair, and it did well there also.
The next step for Rawlings was to
submit what he had done thus far to the
challenge program. He did that right after
the state fair.
On Oct. 12 Rawlings
stopped by the LDN offices
to offer an update on
where he is on meeting the
challenge.
The purpose of the
challenge is to help young
4-
H’ers learn how to take a
topic and dig deeper, learn
more and achieve more
with their work.
Rawlings said his first submission to
the Clover Challenge has been through
the review process and has come back
to him with notes on where he could and
should dig deeper into his research.
Rawlings said he would be returning
to the Monsanto plant. He had plans
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