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Biomass
(Posted on 11/1/2006)
Look at the many ways biomass serves Iowans!

News from Iowa State University Extension

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.

RAGBRAI Riders Will See ‘Visions’: Iowa’s Living Roadways Communities
(Posted on 7/2/2008)

This year’s RAGBRAI route passes through 15 communities that are making Iowa’s roads and towns more visually appealing and environmentally diverse. These communities are part of Iowa’s Living Roadways Community Visioning Program.

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.

ReCAP Economists Prepare Report on Economic Impact of 2008 Floods in Iowa
(Posted on 6/20/2008)
We won't know for some time the actual economic impact of Iowa's flood-damage losses, according to a new report by economists from Iowa State University's Regional Capacity Analysis Program (ReCAP).

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.

Cracking Down on Illegal Immigration Not So Simple
(Posted on 6/18/2008)
Iowa State University specialist discusses social and economic impacts of illegal immigration.

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.

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.

ISU Extension Audio: Interviews for the Week of June 2
(Posted on 6/5/2008)
Listen to interviews about weather and replanting, land values, Town/Craft, Developing Dynamic Leaders and more.

Events

Communities

07/10/2008 Grounds Committee Meeting
07/11/2008 Figure 8 Races
07/21/2008 Cass County Extension Council Meeting
07/22/2008 Empowerment Board Meeting
07/25/2008 Figure 8 Races

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