2005 News & Featured Stories Archive
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June 7, 2005Asian soybean rust will be a prime topic at the Iowa State University Research and Demonstration Farms six summer field days scheduled to begin June 23. The potential spread of the disease is a priority item among soybean producers and researchers t
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June 7, 2005
As change has occurred in the way Iowa's livestock producers operate, change also has taken place in the way Iowa State University Extension provides assistance to those producers.
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June 1, 2005
Three innovative research projects have been awarded grants by Iowa State University's Center for Integrated Animal Genomics (CIAG).
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May 19, 2005Lee Burras, associate professor in Iowa State University's agronomy department, was named a fellow of the Iowa Academy of Sciences at the organization's annual meeting. Burras joined the department in 1995.
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May 18, 2005John Niederhauser, 1990 World Food Prize Laureate, will speak at 2 p.m. on Friday at the Story County Conservation Center in McFarland Park. Niederhauser was invited to speak by the Iowa State University plant pathology department.
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May 17, 2005Iowa's reputation as a producer of high-quality beef is the basis for a demonstration project at Iowa State University to develop a brand linked to that reputation. "Iowa's high-quality beef is the result of the state's abundance of corn for feeding
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May 16, 2005Iowa State University has created an on-farm research program in Sioux, Lyon and Osceola counties. "There has been an increased interest in on-farm research.
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May 13, 2005A muffin developed by a team of graduate students at Oklahoma State University took first place in the 2005 NASA Food Technology Commercial Space Center Product Development Competition at Iowa State University. The student team affiliated with the O
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May 9, 2005The agenda is being finalized for an agricultural policy summit July 6-8 at Iowa State University.
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May 5, 2005When completed, Iowa State University's new dairy farm is expected to be one of the premier dairy education and research facilities in the nation. "We've been planning a long time for this and the new farm will bring our dairy science facilities int
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May 4, 2005Ryan Elgin herds a calf and its mother from a pasture to be tagged. Angela Beaman conducts hydroponic research on basil. Tiffany Obrecht learns the science of writing and conducting a survey.
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May 3, 2005An Iowa State University researcher has been awarded a three-year, $435,000 National Science Foundation grant to study soil bacteria.
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April 21, 2005The Iowa Chapter of the Honor Society of Agriculture, known as Gamma Sigma Delta, presented awards April 5 to Iowa State University College of Agriculture faculty and alumni. Mission Awards winners, from left, William Edwards, Joel Coats and Douglas
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April 20, 2005The Iowa State University crops team placed second overall April 15 at the North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture (NACTA) crops contest in Norfolk, Neb. The team of agronomy undergraduates placed first in the crop knowledge and lab port
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April 20, 2005A new faculty member with expertise in animal behavior has joined the Iowa State University animal science department. "My interest in the field of animal behavior was sparked when I took an undergraduate course on farm animal welfare," said Anna Jo
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April 19, 2005
Forrest Nutter, an Iowa State University plant pathologist, will be coordinating a test of the Iowa Soybean Rust Team's fast track system this week.
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April 18, 2005The road Matthew Ellinwood took to Iowa is a long and winding one. It began in Arizona, with stops in Massachusetts, Missouri, Colorado, Pennsylvania and France. Last Oct.
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April 18, 2005A banquet for students and their families will kickoff a centennial celebration in the Iowa State University Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering. The department's roots are traced to 1905 when Jay Davidson arrived in Ames from the