Creating the future, teaching to serve
Lee Burras sets his Diet Pepsi on the podium and grabs a piece of chalk off the ledge. Class is about to begin.
Renewed landscape scorched by wildfire
The hills were blackened. What was once a house, now a concrete slab.
Teaching computers to diagnose soybean stress
Iowa State University scientists are working toward a future in which farmers can use unmanned aircraft to spot, and even predict, disease and stress in their crops.
The Science of Soil: Agronomy professor works to update Iowa's soil maps
Ask any farmer and they will explain the importance of soil. While seasonal weather can be the difference from a good harvest and a worrisome one, the soil moderates the long-term productivity of that harvest.
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