11/5/2009 - SowBridge Educational Series Continues to Offer Distance Learning Flexibility and Convenience
Registration for the successful SowBridge distance education program is now open.

10/20/2009 - Feeding Forages to Livestock Is Focus of November Conference
Forage producers will hear about alternative uses, as well as issues related to storing and feeding forages at the Nov. 23-24 conference in Des Moines featuring speakers from ISU Extension and the U.S. Dairy Forage Research Center..

10/20/2009 - New ISU Extension Marketing Resource Helps Livestock Producers Face Volatile Prices
This new resource emphasizes the importance of establishing a profitable gross margin rather than focusing only on maximized revenues.

10/20/2009 - Conference Highlights New Technology’s Role in Beef Seedstock Production
Bull breeders can learn how to apply new technology to long-standing practices by attending the Dec. 10 Iowa Beef Center conference.

10/16/2009 - Iowa State Swine Nutrition Program Welcomes New Graduate Students
With five new graduate students and a lab manager, Iowa State University’s (ISU) applied swine nutrition program is focused squarely on the future.

10/14/2009 - Iowa Pork Industry Center to Offer PQA Plus™ Advisor Training Program
Application deadline for this PQA Plus™ Advisor Training session is Nov. 5.

10/9/2009 - Grazing Management for Water Quality Is Focus of Oct. 16 Webcast
Convenience of webcast brings grazing management training -- specifically maximizing production and adequately managing environmental risks to the pasture -- to producers, crop advisers and professional animal scientists.

10/9/2009 - Livestock Producers Facing Explosion Hazards with Manure Pumping
Flash fires and explosions have been reported from methane and hydrogen sulfide buildup in liquid manure pits that are part of confinement feeding buildings.