In the webinar, “What Lies Beneath: The Impact of a Cereal Rye Cover Crop on Corn Seedling Disease Severity,” Matthiesen will provide data and outcomes from a field experiment conducted during 2021-2023 at 16 locations in the U.S. in which the effects of termination timing of a cereal rye cover crop were evaluated.
Continue readingIowa Learning Farms Webinar: Prairie Strip Soil Movement Measurement Explained
The Nov. 1 presentation by Iowa State University’s Jessica Nelson will offer data and insights on slowing soil movement with the implementation of prairie strips.
Continue readingIowa Learning Farms Webinar: Water Stress Impacts on Crops – Excess and Deficit
The Sep. 6 presentation by the University of Minnesota’s Jeff Strock will highlight research into water stress impacts on corn and soybean crops under average, wet and dry conditions.
Continue readingIowa Learning Farms Webinar: Corn Stover Harvest Impacts
The Aug. 30 presentation by USDA ARS team will deliver insights gained from corn stover harvest research including soil health, bioenergy production and water quality impacts.
Continue readingIowa Learning Farms Webinar: Understanding Residual Herbicide and Cover Crop Connections
The August 9 presentation by Purdue University’s Bill Johnson will address the impact of cover crop use on residual herbicide persistence in the soil.
Continue readingWhy Do Iowa Farmers Grow Corn?
Modern corn culture came to Iowa with the settlers that moved across the United States. Farmers, hopscotching westward to Indiana, Illinois and Iowa from the valleys of Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee, brought the agriculture of the Upland South with them- Dent corn and hogs.
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