2006 News & Featured Stories Archive
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December 8, 2006
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.
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December 4, 2006AMES, 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.
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November 20, 2006AMES, Iowa — Jim Kliebenstein, economics professor in Iowa State University’s College of Agriculture, has been awarded the U.S.
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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, 2006AMES, 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, 2006A group of U.S.
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November 9, 2006AMES, 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.
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November 1, 2006AMES, Iowa — The University Economic Development Association has presented Iowa State University with its Economic Development Research award for targeted industrial research in southeastern Iowa. The project began in August 2004 to conduct research-
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October 31, 2006AMES, 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, 2006AMES, Iowa — The U.S.
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October 25, 2006AMES, 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, 2006AMES, 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. The grant, awarded to research part
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October 20, 2006AMES, 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, 2006AMES, 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, 2006AMES, 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. I
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September 19, 2006Ames, 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, 2006AMES, Iowa — The Iowa State University Northern Research and Demonstration Farm will celebrate its 75th anniversary Sept.