Dustin and Shana Johnson of Clinton County earned the Iowa Farm Bureau’s 2017 Young Farmer Achievement Award at the organization’s annual meeting last week in Des Moines.

The annual award honors young farmers who show outstanding management ability in their farming operations and involvement in Farm Bureau and community activities.

Ben Klocke of Carroll County placed second in the Achievement Award competition.

The Johnsons farm near Clin­ton, where they grow corn, soybeans and hay, plus wheat and rye to produce seed to plant cover crops on every acre they operate and extra seed to sell to neighboring...