AMES, Iowa — Farming in Iowa comes down to dirt. And how healthy it is. A new study with Iowa State University College of Agriculture’s agronomy department researchers shows how […]
Originally written By Whitney Baxter Iowa State researchers are working alongside farmers to discover the optimum rate of nitrogen to apply to fertilize fields and to develop a new tool […]
In most of Iowa’s fields, three out of every four acres, farmers rotate annually between planting corn and soybeans. Barely any fields see soybeans year after year, a practice discouraged […]
Several agronomy graduate students participated in the Iowa Soybean Research Center’s first ever research day on September 5 at Reiman Gardens. The event was an opportunity to showcase ISU student […]
Agronomy undergraduate student Zion Bloom participated in the Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium on August 1. Bloom presented on “Identifying the Transition from Measurements of Soil Roughness to Vegetation Optical Depth […]
The Iowa Soybean Research Center (ISRC) and the AI Institute for Resilient Agriculture (AIIRA) hosted a research day for 25 Iowa Soybean Association farmer board members and research staff at […]
Congratulations to the agronomy faculty and staff who received awards during the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Spring Awards Program March 27. Rick Cruse was honored with the Dean […]
Andrew Hokanson, a senior in agronomy, recently returned from a research trip to Honduras. He received project funding through the CALS Office for Academic Innovation and the Office for Research […]
“Everything starts with an idea,” according to Sotirios Archontoulis, professor of agronomy at Iowa State University, who will co-lead a five-year, $16 million project to explore some big, interconnected questions […]
Meyer Bohn and Bradley Miller released the LE-DSM for north central Iowa. This map is the next generation of digital soil maps designed to meet the needs of the digital […]
Efforts to breed more adaptable crops benefit from testing locations with wide ranges of weather, according to a research team led by an Iowa State University professor. The recent study published in […]
Van der Laan and Di Salvo Named 2023 Outstanding Graduate Students The Agronomy Graduate Student Club would like to recognize Liza Van der Laan and Juan I. Di Salvo for being […]