Research Farm Field Day

The annual fall field day at the Iowa State University Northeast Research and Demonstration Farm will run from 1-4:30 p.m. Wednesday, August 24.

Lisa Schulte Moore, Iowa State University professor of natural resource ecology and management, will begin the program by providing her insights on carbon markets in a presentation called “Carbon Science for Carbon Markets: Emerging Opportunities in Iowa.”

Erin Hodgson, professor in entomology and extension entomologist at Iowa State, and Ashley Dean, education extension specialist in entomology with Iowa State University Extension and Outreach, will discuss corn rootworm and resistance management.

Bill Long, field agronomist with Pioneer, will discuss the new technology of stacked traits with RNAi (SmartStax PRO from Bayer and Vorceed Enlist corn from Corteva) for corn rootworm control. Dan Anderson, ag engineering specialist, will give an update on water quality research being conducted, including cover crops and manure trials. Steve Harris, department chair, plant pathology and microbiology and entomology, will discuss the latest on sudden death syndrome in soybeans, treatments, and current soybean disease trends to be aware of for the 2022 growing season.

The field day is free and open to the public. For more information about the event, call Terry Basol at 641-426-6801; or Josh Michel at 563-581-7828.