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News from Iowa State University Extension

After the Flood: Options for Organic Producers
(Posted on 7/3/2008)
ISU organic agriculture expert discusses rotation options, cropping alternatives, pest pressure and long-term consequences resulting from recent extensive flooding.

Extension Learning Community Grows Healthy Food -- and Businesses
(Posted on 7/2/2008)

Growing Food and Profit in Dallas County

Growing their own businesses while supporting other producers is the approach some Dallas County producers are using to improve local food options.

ISU Extension Audio: Crop and Weather Update
(Posted on 7/1/2008)
Extension specialists discuss the latest USDA crop planting report.

ISU Extension Audio: Interviews for the Week of June 30
(Posted on 6/30/2008)
Listen to interviews about crops and weather, mosquitoes, tomatoes and salmonella, community leadership and more.

ISU Extension Audio: Water Quality Issues; Dealing with Dead Livestock; Wet Weather and Crop Scouting
(Posted on 6/27/2008)
Listen to audio interviews with ISU Extension specialists on flood-related issues: water quality, dealing with dead livestock, and wet weather and crop scouting.

ISU Research Farm will host biomass plot tours
(Posted on 6/26/2008)
Tours at the Ag Engineering and Agronomy Research Farm on Monday, Aug. 26, and Friday, Aug. 29, will precede and follow the Farm Progress Show being held nearby.

ISU Extension Audio: Extension Specialists Discuss Delayed Growing Season
(Posted on 6/26/2008)
Iowa State University Extension climatologist Elwynn Taylor, program specialist Rich Pope and entomologist Ken Holscher discuss the aftermath of the floods and excessive rainfall that has delayed the growing season for Iowa farmers.

Don’t Use Flood-soaked Grain for Feed or Food
(Posted on 6/23/2008)
With only a few exceptions, flood-soaked grain is not useable for feed or food.Flooding affects both the stored grain and the storage structures, ISU Extension experts say.

ISU Extension Audio: Interviews for the Week of June 23
(Posted on 6/20/2008)
Listen to interviews about the economic impacts of flooding in Iowa, plant diseases, crop insurance, corn replanting decisions, protecting your garden investment and more.

Iowa Offers Weed Seed Free Forage and Mulch Certification
(Posted on 6/19/2008)
Iowa Crop Improvement Association offers a site to connect suppliers and buyers of certified weed-free forages and hay.

Crop Insurance May Help Flooded and Wet Corn and Soybean Acres
(Posted on 6/18/2008)
ISU Extension farm management specialist says nearly 90 percent of corn and soybean acres in Iowa are covered by multiple peril crop insurance.

Emergency Crop Meeting Offered in Taylor County
(Posted on 6/17/2008)
The meeting will be held June 18 in Lenox.

ISU Extension Specialists Review Current Crop Conditions
(Posted on 6/17/2008)
Listen to Talk@12 program aired on WOI Radio at noon on June 17 for an update on current crop conditions in Iowa as affected by extreme weather.

ISU Extension Audio: Impacts of 2008 Floods
(Posted on 6/17/2008)
Iowa State University Extension specialists discuss impacts of the 2008 floods: economic impacts, corn production, crop disease, crop insurance and lawn, landscape and garden concerns. Listen to the audio interviews.

June 14, 2008 Iowa State University Extension Flooding Media Advisory
(Posted on 6/14/2008)
ISU Extension specialists have released more materials for media covering Iowa flooding.

Additional Eastern Iowa Emergency Crop Meeting Scheduled
(Posted on 6/14/2008)
The meeting be held on June 20 in Durant.

Emergency Crop Meeting Planned for South Central Iowa
(Posted on 6/13/2008)
The Crop Replant, Delayed and Prevented Planting Provisions meeting will be held in Greenfield on June 16.

Eastern Iowa Emergency Crop Programs Offered
(Posted on 6/12/2008)
The meetings will be held June 18 inat the Linn and Washington ISU Extension County offices.

Media Advisory: Flood-Related Resources
(Posted on 6/12/2008)
If you need help weathering the recent storms, Iowa State University Extension offering a variery of resources.

ISU Extension Offers Emergency Crop Meeting
(Posted on 6/11/2008)
Iowa State University Extension is sponsoring this event at 1:30 p.m. Friday at the Northeast Iowa Research Farm near Nashua to provide information that will help farmers understand their options when making difficult economic and agronomic decisions over the next few weeks.

Can I Grow Grapes?
(Posted on 6/6/2008)
ISU Extension Fruit Specialist Paul Domoto explains it is critical that your site and soil conditions are suitable for grapes and that you select grape cultivars adapted to your conditions because vineyards are expensive to establish.