PORK QUALITY ASSURANCE PLUS® and TRANSPORT QUALITY ASSURANCE® Training Sessions Scheduled
(Posted on 2/9/2012)
(Cherokee, Iowa). The Iowa Pork Industry Center and Iowa State University Extension are teaming up to provide necessary training for pork producers. Pork Quality Assurance (PQA) Plus® training will be held in Cherokee on Tuesday, Feb. 28 at the Cherokee County Extension Office, 209 Centennial Drive, Suite A, Cherokee from 10 a.m. to noon. Transporter Quality Assurance ® (TQA) training sessions will also be held Tuesday, Feb. 28 at the Cherokee County Extension Office at 1 p.m. Fee is $25 each for these sessions.

2012 Iowa Pork Regional Conferences slated for March 7 in Sheldon
(Posted on 2/9/2012)
(Sheldon, Iowa) — The Iowa Pork Producers Association has teamed up with the Iowa Pork Industry Center and Iowa State University Extension and Outreach swine specialists to host regional conferences March 6-9. Date and location for the northwest Iowa conference is on Wednesday, March 7 at Northwest Community College, Building A, room 119 from 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

2012 Field & Feedlot Newsletters
(Posted on 1/27/2012)
A newsletter of timely topics for farmers, ag producers and others in Northwest Iowa - written by Agriculture Program Specialists serving Northwest Iowa.

2011 Extension Crop Update Newsletters
(Posted on 12/8/2011)
A crop newsletter of timely topics for farmers, ag producers and others in Northwest Iowa - written by Joel DeJong, Field Agronomist.

2011 Field & Feedlot Newsletters
(Posted on 11/28/2011)
A newsletter of timely topics for farmers, ag producers and others in Northwest Iowa - written by Agriculture Program Specialists serving Northwest Iowa.

ATTENTION Manure Applicators - Reshow Policy
(Posted on 11/23/2011)
Lyon County Extension will reshow both the Commercial and Confinement Manure Applicator Programs on the second Thursday of each month, beginning March 8, 2012, for those that were unable to attend a workshop. If you need to schedule a reshow at any other time, you will now be charged a $10 fee per person.

PORK QUALITY ASSURANCE PLUS® and TRANSPORT QUALITY ASSURANCE®
(Posted on 11/23/2011)
PQA Plus® was developed by the Pork Industry Animal Care Coalition to be a continuous improvement program. TQA was introduced in 2002 by the Pork Checkoff as a quality assurance program designed specifically for transporters, producers and handlers of pigs.

2010 Northwest Iowa On-Farm Research Results
(Posted on 2/17/2011)
Farmers from northwest and west central Iowa participated in comparing field-length, replicated, field-scale trials. Some projects that are compared include: corn and soybean fungicide use, corn and soybean populations, tillage comparisons and others.