Planting Spring-Blooming Bulbs
Tips on buying and planting bulbs for a bright spring.
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Fall Forestry Field Days
Educational opportunities for forest landowners, industry and enthusiasts abound at fall forestry field days.
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Practical Farmers of Iowa Savings Incentive Program
Savings incentive program applications now accepted at Practical Farmers of Iowa.
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Online Food Safety Training Available for Home-based Food Businesses in Iowa
Home-based food operators producing and selling their home-prepared foods are known as the cottage food industry. Iowa State University Extension and Outreach offers online training designed specifically for cottage food producers.
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Sharing Spaces with Iowa’s Most Common Carnivore
Simple measures are effective in preventing conflicts with coyotes that can further reduce the chances for problem encounters with domestic animals.
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The Current Cucurbit
The main focus of our three-state (Iowa, Kentucky, and New York), three-year (2020-2022) project is on finding better ways to manage diseases, insect pests, and weeds in organic systems, and getting that information to growers. Our funding comes from USDA’s Organic Research and Extension Initiative (OREI).
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Welcome to SmarterAppleSpraying!
The Intelligent Sprayer is the creation of a team of USDA-ARS engineers at Wooster, Ohio, led by Dr. Heping Zhu. It has been tested on nursery trees, peaches, grapes, and other large-canopy crops, and is now available commercially for retrofitting standard airblast sprayers. Our study is the first to evaluate the Intelligent Sprayer for control of the full range of pests and diseases on apples during the whole growing season.
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Fly Control
With summer in full gear it is a good time to evaluate how your fly control program is working. When horn fly numbers are greater than 200 flies per animal we see significant production losses associated with blood loss and decreased feed consumption. Numbers of face flies and stable flies are harder to assess because they only spend a small amount of time feeding on cattle but are still significant pests.
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Beat the Summer Heat; Protecting your Vegetable Crops in Excessive Heat
Multiple days of excessive heat can be hard on vegetable crops, especially ones known to be cool-season. Brassicas, lettuce, carrots and spinach are particularly vulnerable to bitterness, wilting, bolting, deformities and coloring that affect the quality of the produce.
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Iowa Nature Series Provides Fresh Look at Iowa's Outdoors
Explore Iowa's natural world through a series of new publications by Iowa State University Extension and Outreach.
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