2014 News & Featured Stories Archive
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December 18, 2014
Ames, Iowa – Average Iowa farmland value is now estimated to be $7,943 per acre—a drop in value of $773, or 8.9 percent, per acre.
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December 17, 2014
They call themselves the Gung-ho Globies and appropriately so, the Iowa State University student team was chosen as one of 10 teams worldwide to compete for $10,000 in seed money for developing an innovative idea to feed the world.
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December 16, 2014
Ankeny, Iowa — Leading Iowa farm organizations, agribusinesses, state government and Iowa State University have developed comprehensive action steps to help harness the power of agricultural data to the benefit of farmers.
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December 10, 2014
AMES, Iowa — Animal scientist Donald Beermann has been named the chair of the Department of Animal Science at Iowa State University.
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December 4, 2014
AMES, Iowa — A news conference will be held at 10 a.m. on Dec. 18 announcing the results of the 2014 Iowa Land Value Survey conducted by the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development at Iowa State University.
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December 4, 2014
AMES, Iowa — A federally funded climate initiative, that includes Iowa State University, has launched a new online decision support tool to help farmers and farm advisers manage the application of in-field nitrogen for maximizing crop yields and m
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December 3, 2014
AMES, Iowa — The Iowa Board of Regents today approved the National Science Foundation Industry & University Cooperative Research Center for Bioplastics and Biocomposites.
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December 3, 2014
The Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust of Muscatine, Iowa, has committed $1.5 million to Iowa State University to create a research discovery endowment for instrumentation in the Roy J.
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December 1, 2014
AMES, Iowa –– Registration is open for the 2015 Entrepreneurship Agribusiness Executive Conference, hosted by Iowa State University’s Agricultural Entrepreneurship Initiative.
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December 1, 2014
AMES, Iowa — A national program leader with the U.S. Department of Agriculture has been named the new director of the Center for Sustainable Rural Livelihoods at Iowa State University.
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November 24, 2014
AMES, Iowa — Making forestry curriculum relevant and applying land management concepts and skills to real-world situations has been the role of Iowa State University’s annual forestry camp since 1914.
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November 21, 2014Thank you video from the Iowa State University College of Agriculture and LIfe Sciences
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November 14, 2014Horticulture volunteers plant bulbs for spring.
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November 3, 2014
AMES, Iowa — Iowa State University is part of a team of 20 land-grant universities that has received a national award for water conservation research.
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October 31, 2014
AMES, Iowa -- An Iowa State University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences faculty member has received the annual U.S. Department of Agriculture Food and Agricultural Sciences Regional Excellence in Teaching Award.
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October 23, 2014
(Editor’s note: Photos of John Pesek, the award presentation and portrait are available by contacting Melea Reicks Licht.)
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October 22, 2014
Max Morris is the new chair of the Department of Statistics at Iowa State University. He succeeds Kenneth Koehler, University Professor, who served as chair since 2003 and remains on the faculty.
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October 22, 2014
AMES, Iowa – The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Iowa State University recognized its scholarship recipients for the 2014-15 academic year.