The Linn County Farm Bureau and the Linn County Soil and Water Conservation District hosted a tour of four area farms recently. It was designed to explain modern farming and conservation practices, according to Tim Keegan, a Linn County Farm Bureau member and farmer.

"The purpose of this tour is to get some of the public who aren’t familiar with agriculture ... to see some of the practices that we’re doing," Keegan said.

While some of the...