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Integrated Crop Management Website Update

February 25, 2025
Content Author: Rebecca Vittetoe , Erin Hodgson

The Iowa State University Extension and Outreach Integrated Crop Management website has recently undergone a redesign for a new “look and feel.” While the site’s URL remains the same (https://crops.extension.iastate.edu), this is the first major update since 2017. The redesign enhances navigation, improves access to key resources, and ensures safety and compliance with university requirements.

The homepage for the Crops Team now features:

  • A timely topics stream displaying the latest Integrated Crop Management content, including news, events, and publications.
  • A button linking to upcoming crops-related extension events across the state.
  • A menu bar along the top which includes a "People" option to help users find their regional field agronomist or other campus and statewide specialists.

Additionally, the site introduces dedicated landing pages for Crops, Soils, Pests, Weather, and Equipment. Each of these pages provides specialized content, including ICM News and Blogs, encyclopedia articles, and valuable tools and resources relevant to each of the landing pages.

If you have previously subscribed to receive email alerts about ICM News or Blogs, you will continue to get those alerts. New subscribers can sign up by going to: https://crops.iastate.edu/subscribe. 

We invite you to explore the updated Integrated Crop Management website and make it your go-to source for crop production and management information.

Links to this article are strongly encouraged, and this article may be republished without further permission if published as written and if credit is given to the author, Integrated Crop Management News, and Iowa State University Extension and Outreach. If this article is to be used in any other manner, permission from the author is required. This article was originally published on February 25, 2025. The information contained within may not be the most current and accurate depending on when it is accessed.

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Rebecca Vittetoe
  • Field Agronomist in EC/SE Iowa
Rebecca Vittetoe works with farmers, landowners, and ag retailers to answer agronmy-related questions. Her areas of expertise include general agronomy, crop diseases, corn, soybean, and forage management, cover crops, integrated pest management, and crop scouting. Vittetoe received her B.S. in agronomy along with a journalism and mass communications minor from Iowa State University in 2014. She earn her M.S. in agronomy from Iowa State University in 2019.
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Erin Hodgson
  • Professor
  • Extension Entomologist Specialist
  • ANR Crops Team Leader
Dr. Erin Hodgson started working in the Department of Entomology, now the Department of Plant Pathology, Entomology, and Microbiology, at Iowa State University in 2009. She is a professor with extension and research responsibilities in corn and soybeans. She has a general background in integrated pest management (IPM) for field crops. Dr. Hodgson's current extension and research programs are focused on improving corn and soybean production by using IPM tactics to protect yield and increase overall farmer profits. Among other projects, she oversees insecticide efficacy evaluations for soybean aphids, Japanese beetles, and aphids in corn. Erin also helps manage emerging field crop pests and invasive species.

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