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SASES Students Attend International Annual Meeting

At the beginning of November, ISU agronomy students attended the Students of Agronomy, Soils, and Environmental Sciences (SASES) American Society of Agronomy International Annual Meeting. SASES is the undergraduate program for the […]

Agronomists Agronomy Undergraduates SASES

Transfer Learning Community Field Trip

The Transfer Agronomy Learning Community took a “field trip” around the agronomy building at the beginning of November and visited with graduate students about their projects: Ms. Yunjiao Zhu (nitrogen fluxes […]

Agronomy Field Trip Agronomy Research learning community Transfer Students

Identifying root nodules in a SNAP

Crop producers know that yield depends on a lot that occurs underground. This is true across all plants, including soybeans. Plant roots interact with a complex microbiome in the soil, […]

Root Nodules SNAP Soybean

Agronomy undergrads attend SASES meetings and competition

The undergraduate experience at the annual meeting of the Students of Agronomy, Soil & Environmental Sciences (SASES) program features a special program of sessions, contests, networking, social activities, an awards […]

SASES

Agronomy alum takes over University of Nebraska small grains breeding program

In March of 2021, a decade of hard work and persistence paid off as Katherine Frels moved back to Lincoln and into the field, not as a graduate student but […]

Barley Breeding Genetics Plant Breeding Small Grains Wheat

National USDA Mutistate Research Excellence Award: Robert Horton

Robert Horton, who holds the Charles F. Curtiss Distinguished Professorship in Agriculture and Life Sciences in agronomy at Iowa State University, is one of the senior scientists recognized by USDA […]

Awards Bob Horton Horton Research Excellence Robert Horton Soil Soil Science USDA

Pipeline study shows soil compaction and crop yield impacts in construction right-of-way

An Iowa State University study looking at the impacts of soil disturbance and early remediation practices from construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline finds significant soil compaction and gradual recovery […]

Pipeline Soil Soil Compaction Soil Disturbance

University of Buenos Aires student interns at Iowa State University

Growing up in a farming community in Lincoln, Argentina, Hernan Torres Pacin has always had an interest in agricultural production. Although his family doesn’t farm, Hernan’s interest in agriculture arose as he […]

Hernan Torres Pacin Intern

Soil study shows why nitrous oxide emissions should factor into climate change mitigation

Poorly drained agricultural soils emit enough of the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide that the resulting climate change effects could far exceed the benefits of using the same soils as a […]

Climate Change Emissions Nitrous Oxide

University of Buenos Aires student interns at Iowa State University

Growing up in a farming community in Lincoln, Argentina, Hernan Torres Pacin has always had an interest in agricultural production. Although his family doesn’t farm, Hernan’s interest in agriculture arose as he […]

Hernan Torres Pacin Intern

National FFA Organization Names Chase Krug 2021 Star in Agriscience

Agronomy senior Chase Krug won the National FFA Star in Agriscience at the national convention in Indianapolis last week. Each year at the National FFA Convention & Expo, four FFA members […]

Agriscience Chase Krug FFA National FFA Award

Iowa State University will honor Clarinda man killed in World War II

AMES, Iowa — Despite catastrophic damage to the aircraft flown by Donald T. Griswold Jr. during the Battle of Midway, he did not retreat. Griswold was born July 8, 1917, […]

Alumni Donald Griswold Veteran
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