AMES, Iowa -- Audio of the following Iowa State University Extension interviews is available for download (week of Feb. 4). For more information, contact Doug Cooper, ISU Extension audio producer, levachek@iastate.edu.

• ISU Extension economist and director of the Beginning Farmer Center Mike Duffy discusses the recently held student organized Beginning Farmers Conference.
• The Iowa Farm and Rural Life Poll was started by ISU Extension rural sociologist Paul Lasley. Now after 25 years Lasley will turn the reigns over to a new rural sociologist, J. Arbuckle.
• ISU Extension economist and director of the Community Vitality Center Mark Edelman talks about the upcoming 5th Philanthropy Academy. 
• ISU Extension soybean agronomist Palle Pedersen says farmers have some choices to make as they plan for the next growing season. He offers ups some things to consider.
• For the gardener: Learn about bird feeding, house plants, acronyms in horticulture and mealy bugs.
• Get the SafeFarm report from Chuck Schwab on electrical safety.
• Listen to A Conservation Minute with John Lundvall — Conservation Tillage.
• Listen to A Minute in Urban Agriculture with Linda Naeve — Spiders.
• It’s Time To…with Rich Pope—Timely Tips.

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