Kelby Kiefer and Dave Flewelling join Jamie to talk about the Iowa LICA Field Days coming up on July 26 & 27 in Melbourne, Iowa. The Water Table Podcast will be there with our mobile recording studio to get in on all the action. Find out why Iowa LICA chapter is one of the biggest and best in the country and hear about the farm they’ve owned for 20 years. They’ve used 80 acres to clean up a 1000 acre watershed and want to share their practices with you!
The LICA Farm:
https://ialica-my.sharepoint.com/:v:/p/director/EdUXGtODslhKun8n3oByicMBnlQpOaAWJVbO6s68qWOmig
Attend LICA on July 26th and 27th:
https://www.facebook.com/IALICA/
Chapters & Episode Topics:
00:00 Intro
00:32 This week on The Water Table…
00:57 Welcome Kelby and Dave
02:00 What’s so different about Iowa?
03:30 It’s all about loyalty…
04:45 …and passion
06:10 A fraternity of relationships
07:20 The Iowa LICA Farm
08:30 See conservation practices first-hand
09:15 Terraces, wetlands and buffers, oh my!
10:25 All the testing and all the results
12:00 80 acres cleaning up 1000 acres
13:10 Field day! July 26 & 27
14:10 Come play in the dirt…
15:30 This year – tiling, saturated buffers, grading…demos galore!
17:40 Schedule info
19:00 EVERYONE is invited
20:20 Three goals
21:00 The Water Table on the road!
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About the Guests:
Kelby Kiefer has been the Iowa LICA Executive Director since May of 2022. She grew up in Southeastern Iowa in the Wellman/Kalona area where she still resides. She has been employed by the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics for the past 16 years and has been in the Department of Emergency Medicine as part of the Education Leadership Team for the past 7.5 years. She is a Program Coordinator for their Physician Assistant Residency and six departmental Fellowships (Emergency Medical Services, Emergency Ultrasound, Medical Education, Medical Toxicology, Research, and Social Medicine). She also serves as Division Coordinator for their Divisions of Emergency Medical Services and Medical Toxicology.
Dave Flewelling has served on the Iowa Land Improvement Contractors Association board for the past 10 years and currently serves as the state president. Dave developed a true passion for building conservation structures while growing up in a small family-run multi-generational earthmoving company from Northwest Iowa. After taking over the business in 2007 and joining the Iowa LICA Association shortly afterwards, he realized how important it is to belong to a group that has a strong impact on the industry and has made it his goal to help educate the next generation of contractors how to conserve the earth for future use.
