2025 Iowa Better Newspaper Contests

Coverage of Agriculture ( Class III) Back

  • Place Name: First Place
    Contestant Name: Dyersville - Dyersville Commercial
    Entry Title: Dyersville Commercial
    Entry Credit: Jake Bourgeois, Dave LaBelle, Erin LaBelle
    Judge Comment: Nice collection of people stories. Reader really gets to see the people in these communities
  • Place Name: Second Place
    Contestant Name: Kalona - The News
    Entry Title: Five agriculture stories
    Entry Credit: Cheryl Allen
    Judge Comment: Nice story telling and the use of photos that support the narrative.
  • Place Name: Third Place
    Contestant Name: Estherville - Estherville News
    Entry Title: New goat building, women in ag, overseas visitors to historic farmstead
    Entry Credit: Amy H Peterson, David Swartz, Taylor Nissen
    Judge Comment: Very community oriented in the story telling. But watch the editing, Nice voices.