AMES, Iowa — Are you looking for quality native seed to plant in 2007? The Iowa Crop Improvement Association (ICIA) has published the Native Species Directory as a resource for finding quality seeds that are native to the state of Iowa.
2006 News & Featured Stories Archive
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December 8, 2006
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December 4, 2006
AMES, Iowa — A new, two-year study of air emissions from two Midwest turkey production units will get underway in March 2007, funded by a $500,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Research Initiative on air quality.
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November 20, 2006
AMES, Iowa — Jim Kliebenstein, economics professor in Iowa State University’s College of Agriculture, has been awarded the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food and Agricultural Sciences Excellence in Teaching Award.
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November 20, 2006
"Development through animal agriculture is a logical and exciting avenue to grow Iowa’s rural economies," said Wendy Wintersteen, dean of Iowa State’s College of Agriculture.
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November 13, 2006
AMES, Iowa — An Iowa State University faculty member has been awarded the annual USDA Food and Agricultural Sciences Excellence in Teaching Award.
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November 13, 2006
A group of U.S.
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November 9, 2006
AMES, Iowa — A new Center for Agricultural Law and Taxation has been established at Iowa State University. The Board of Regents, State of Iowa, approved the new center at its Nov. 8 meeting in Ames.
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November 1, 2006
AMES, Iowa — The University Economic Development Association has presented Iowa State University with its Economic Development Research award for targeted industrial research in southeastern Iowa.
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October 31, 2006
AMES, Iowa — The Iowa State University soil judging team placed second overall at the American Society of Agronomy regional soil judging contest held at Kansas State University.
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October 26, 2006
AMES, Iowa — The U.S.
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October 25, 2006
AMES, Iowa — Two men who have made important contributions to the agriculture industry were honored Oct. 20 as part of an Iowa State University Alumni Association awards ceremony.
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October 24, 2006
AMES, Iowa — Researchers at Iowa State University will evaluate the costs and benefits of ethanol expansion to rural communities in the Upper Mississippi River Basin as part of a $676,722 biofuels research grant.
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October 20, 2006
AMES, Iowa — An Iowa State University plant pathologist has been recognized for his role in helping the U.S. soybean industry better manage the risk of soybean rust. X.B. Yang X.B.
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October 12, 2006
AMES, Iowa - Are you looking for quality seed to plant in 2007?
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October 10, 2006
AMES, Iowa — Iowa State University's annual Agriculture Career Day has been filled to capacity with recruiting employers three weeks from the event on Oct. 24.
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October 5, 2006
AMES, Iowa — A tour and commemoration ceremony of Iowa State University's long-term continuous corn research plots will be Oct. 12. The plots have been planted in corn since 1915.
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September 26, 2006
AMES, Iowa — Researchers at three universities, including Iowa State University, have designed a new way to make plants resistant to the root-knot nematode, a microscopic, parasitic worm that is one of the world's most destructive plant pathogens.
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September 19, 2006
Ames, Iowa — Congress should take the best of current commodity policy and add in the best ideas from the Risk Management Agency to build a more efficient farm bill, an Iowa State University professor will tell a U.S.
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September 6, 2006
AMES, Iowa — Iowa State University will offer a master's degree in seed technology and business beginning next year. The interdisciplinary degree will integrate coursework from the colleges of Agriculture and Business.
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August 28, 2006
AMES, Iowa — The Iowa State University Northern Research and Demonstration Farm will celebrate its 75th anniversary Sept. 8.