The Dispatch/Rock Island Argus article — Equine degrees from BHC are more than just horsing around
With two contests as freshmen and two contests as sophomores, this team has remained undefeated. For the second year in a row and the fifth of the last six years, the Black Hawk College East Campus Horse Judging Team, coached by Aaron Callahan, has brought home the title of World Champions. Following two spring contests [...]
It would be hard to have Thanksgiving dinner without the ag industry – no farms means no food. This Thanksgiving, the Black Hawk College East Foundation gives thanks to the Burns Grange #1839 for giving to the future of agriculture. After more than 70 years in existence, Burns Grange #1839 was dissolved this fall and [...]
A beat-up, 1960s-era tractor from an Illinois cornfield may help a village in West Africa harvest pineapples, mangoes and papayas. Ten Black Hawk College East Campus students spent four hours a week for eight months rebuilding a yellow International Harvester 350 utility tractor that had been languishing in a farm field. “It was a major teardown [...]
Sept. 16, 2011 – For the 30th time, livestock judges from Black Hawk College East Campus took top honors in the junior college division at the National Barrow Show Swine Judging Contest in Austin, Minn. This year the National Barrow Show celebrated its 65th year. The swine judging competition is held in conjunction with the [...]
The Black Hawk College Locally Grown Foods program will be open for produce sales and U-pick at the college’s East Campus every Tuesday and Thursday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. starting Tuesday, Aug. 16 through the remainder of the growing season. Available produce will include sweet corn, peppers, tomatoes, eggplant, cucumbers, zucchini, onions and [...]
