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Listening, Learning and Working for a Strong IowaIn ISU Extension and Outreach, we always want to learn more about the challenges Iowans are facing and determine how we can help address those challenges. We are listening, learning, and working together with the people of our state to build a strong Iowa.
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Friday, December 7, 2018 - 14:482019 Dairy Days to Feature Profitable Dairy Practices
Jennifer Bentley, Larry Tranel
Iowa dairy producers have the opportunity to learn about emerging dairy industry issues during 2019 Dairy Days, workshops hosted by Iowa State University Extension and Outreach dairy specialists.
Friday, December 7, 2018 - 14:18Popular Cornbelt Cow-Calf Conference Continues Tradition Jan. 26
Patrick Wall
The popular Cornbelt Cow-Calf Conference has a reputation of providing timely, accurate and important information to the state’s beef cattle industry. Patrick Wall, Iowa State University Extension and Outreach beef specialist, said the 2019 conference Jan. 26 will continue that successful tradition.
Friday, December 7, 2018 - 13:22Water Rocks! Launches New Pollinator Classroom Presentation
Ann Staudt
A new Water Rocks! presentation for upper-elementary and middle school classrooms, Power of Pollinators, is ready to make its debut.
Friday, December 7, 2018 - 11:51Marketing Beef Is Focus of Feedlot Forum
Beth Doran
Beef producers are in a new era of marketing with more changes rapidly coming. This new era will be the focus of Feedlot Forum 2019, set for Jan. 15.
Friday, December 7, 2018 - 11:31Iowa State to Lead Research to Increase Pig Survivability
Jason Ross, Ed Adcock
A research project led by the Iowa Pork Industry Center at Iowa State University seeks to increase pork producers’ profits by improving the survivability of their animals.
Friday, December 7, 2018 - 11:22Research on Monarchs’ Egg-laying Preferences Can Guide Recovery Efforts
John Patience, Ann Robinson, Dana Schweitzer
Loss of habitat containing milkweed plants is considered a leading cause of the precipitous decline in monarch butterfly populations over the past 20 years. Iowa, in the center of the monarch’s summer breeding range, has a goal to establish hundreds of millions of new milkweed stems across 480,000 to 830,000 acres, by 2038.
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