You are invited to the Southeast Iowa Agricultural Research Association's annual meeting, on Thursday, March 7, at the Southeast Research and Demonstration Farm, located at 3115 Louisa-Washington Rd, Crawfordsville.
The association, in partnership with Iowa State University, oversees the ISU Southeast Research and Demonstration Farm.
The annual meeting will feature:
Growing up on his family’s farm, Steve Schomberg learned the importance of environmentalism by his father. Conservation and sustainability remained central to Steve’s life while he worked at the University of Illinois, which is where he first learned about miscanthus and its use as a biomass crop. When searching for a third, more environmentally diverse crop to grow on his farm, Steve decided to begin farming miscanthus for the University of Iowa Power Plant.
In this video field agronomist Meaghan Anderson (Iowa State University) discusses the upcoming Crop Advantage Series with local farmer Erik Wibholm from Stratford, Iowa.
The CALS Graduate Student Field Day, put on by graduate students enrolled in the Experiences in Plant Science Extension and Outreach course, was a collaborative effort to inform attendees about the impacts of Iowa's extreme weather on the 2019 field season. Plant foliar and root diseases, and insect pests were some of the main highlights, as well as the discussion of integrated management to improve practices and prevent these diseases and pests from taking hold in future years.
Since 2015, farmers from the Iowa Pork Producers Association have collaborated with researchers from Iowa State University to plant and survey monarch habitat plots on their land. Tom Tiernan, Iowa pork producer, describes his three-year experience with the habitat project — and highlights the importance of diverse partnerships!
Angie Rieck-Hinz, Extension Field Agronomist, discusses the importance of soil sampling and demonstrates how to take a proper soil sample.
Ed Zaworski, from the Plant and Insect Diagnostic Clinic at Iowa State University, discusses the importance of sampling for soybean cyst nematode and gives examples of how to take a sample.
Check out the clinic website here: You CAN send them a soil sample! Go here for thePlant and Insect Diagnostic Clinic Nematode Sample Submission Form: https://store.extension.iastate.edu/product/3619
Melissa Irizarry details her research on Soybean Vein Necrosis Virus.
