2013 News & Featured Stories Archive
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August 20, 2013
AMES, Iowa –– Registration is open for the 2014 Entrepreneurship Agribusiness Executive Conference, which is hosted by Iowa State University’s Agricultural Entrepreneurship Initiative.
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August 20, 2013
AMES, Iowa — The late-summer field days at Iowa State University Research and Demonstration Farms beginning Aug. 28 will deal with crop production issues as harvest approaches.
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August 9, 2013
AMES, Iowa — Iowa State University economists are cautioning farmers to be prepared for a potential downturn in the values of commodities and land.
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August 9, 2013
AMES, Iowa — The National Science Foundation has funded an industry-university cooperative research center that will explore new strategies for managing insect pests that devastate crops and harm human health.
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August 7, 2013
Ames, Iowa — A field day will be held on Aug. 30, hosted by the Iowa State University Agricultural Engineering/Agronomy Research Farm, rural Boone, from 9 a.m. to noon with lunch following the program.
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August 1, 2013
Jeremy Dow, an intern with the George Washington Carver Internship Program, is searching for a better natural alternative for insect repellent.
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July 31, 2013
AMES, Iowa— This summer nearly 80 Iowa agriculture teachers will be certified to help students advance in math and science with the leadership of Michael Retallick, Iowa State University agricultural education and studies associate professor.
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July 26, 2013
George Washington Carver intern Mara Cuebas is studying Colony Collapse Disorder in bees.
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July 26, 2013
Jessica Thomson, an intern who is part of the George Washington Carver (GWC) Internship, is studying wasp development.
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July 26, 2013
A group of five George Washington Carver interns from Tuskegee University are studying sudden death syndrome in soybeans.
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July 25, 2013
George Washington Carver intern Susanna Huggenberger is helping in the search for a HIV vaccine.
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July 24, 2013
Llewin Froome is a summer intern in the George Washington Carver Internship Program studying soil.
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July 24, 2013
AMES, Iowa — Turfgrass specialists who work with golf courses, athletic fields and lawn care services will meet at 8 a.m. Aug. 1 for an annual field day at the Iowa State University Horticulture Research Station.
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July 24, 2013
AMES, Iowa – Teaching, research and extension programs focused on farming are featured in the latest issue of STORIES in Agriculture and Life Sciences from Iowa State University.
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July 23, 2013
George Washington Carver intern Jacinda Dunn is spending her summer studying the fat composition of meat.
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July 23, 2013
AMES, Iowa — An Aug. 1 field day at the Armstrong Research and Demonstration Farm near Lewis includes topics of interest to crop producers in southwest Iowa.
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July 23, 2013
NEWELL, Iowa – Insulated portable dwellings used for thousands of years by nomadic people in central Asia have found another creative use on an Iowa State University research farm: keeping baby pigs comfortable.
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July 19, 2013
AMES, Iowa — Niche market swine producers may soon have data to precisely match the nutrients in feed with the needs of their pigs.
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July 18, 2013
AMES, Iowa – Iowa State University is part of a team that has received the 2013 North Central Region Excellence in Multistate Research Award presented by the North Central Regional Association of State Agricultural Experiment Station Directors.