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Center for Industrial Research and Service (CIRAS)

Business and Industry Highlights

CIRAS -- The Center for Industrial Research and Service (CIRAS) provides education, research, and technical assistance to Iowa industry through partnerships with Iowa's universities, community colleges and government agencies. Assistance is supported in part by the DoC/NIST Manufacturing Extension Partnership, the DoD/DLA Procurement Technical Assistance Program and the DoC/EDA University Center Program.

 AgMRC -- The Agricultural Marketing Resource Center provides independent producers and processors with critical information needed to build successful value-added agriculture enterprises.

The Value Added Agriculture Program provides unbiased, science-based information to help establish or expand agricultural-related businesses in Iowa. Whether it's a new start-up, or an established business wanting to expand, the VAAP works directly with the owners of the business.

Business and Industry News

5/6/2008 - Iowa State University Hosts 2008 Biobased Industry Outlook Conference
Sept. 7-9 event will showcase crops, cropping systems and equipment at the new ISU Century Farm.
4/30/2008 - ISU Extension Audio: Interviews for the Week of April 28
Listen to interviews about getting into wet fields at the start of the 2008 growing season, La Niña and potential yields for corn and soybeans, mitigating air emissions and more.
4/23/2008 - ISU Extension Audio: Interviews for the Week of April 21
Listen to interviews about weather conditions during planting, land values, the health of manufacturing, Iowa States’ sesquicentennial and more.