Iowa State's Crops Team Competes at Regional Crops Contest West Texas A&M University Regional Crops Contest Results The Iowa State University’s Crops Team attended and competed at the WTAMU Regional Crops Contest this past weekend. The conference took place in Canyon Texas. Besides the competition, the team was able to tour a cotton gin in the panhandle of Texas and hike part of Palo Duro Canyon which all made for a memorable learning experience. The team travels to Manhattan, Kansas in 2 weeks for another regional contest. Results -1st Overall in the 4-yr Division (Wyatt Bailey ..read more

PAS Conference Soils Results                 Congratulations to the Iowa State University's PAS Soils Team for their accomplishments this past weekend. The 2022 PAS (Professional Agriculture Students) Spring Conference was held February 9th through 11th at the Quality Inn in Ames. The Iowa State University's PAS Team attended and competed. The results for the soils team are detailed below. First Place Team: Jonah Gray, Smit Muttha, and Megan Blauwet Second Place Team: Carly Strausser, Hallie Sandeen, and Lydia Brown  Third Place Team:  A ..read more

Seed Scholarship Recipients Twelve scholarships were given to Eleven Iowa State University (ISU) College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) students at the 2022 Iowa Agribusiness Showcase and Conference on February 9 in Des Moines, Iowa. Ten of the students were either majoring or minoring in Agronomy  Nine Iowa Seed Association (ISA). Scholarships of $1,000 each were awarded ..read more

Melinda Zubrod’s Internship in Denver, Colorado ..read more

Bhattacharyya named AAAS Fellow College of Agriculture and Life Sciences faculty Madan Bhattacharyya and Aaron Gassmann are among six Iowa State University researchers the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) named this week to its class of 2021 Fellows for their “distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications.” They will be recognized at the AAAS’ annual meeting, planned for February 17-20.   Madan Bhattacharyya: Identifying genetic mechanisms to fight soybean diseases ..read more

Grant money awarded to study DAPL impact Agronomy graduate student Luis Bentancor, along with associate professor Dr. Bradley Miller, has been awarded $14,964 in grant money to study soil health indicators in areas impacted by the Dakota Access pipeline installation. The North Central Region of Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (NCR-SARE) awarded the funds as part of their Graduate Student Sustainable Agriculture Grant Awards. Bentancor said they spent about a month to get the proposal for the grant ready and it took about three months to hear they had been awarded the funds ..read more

CALS Council Senior Awardee: Stahl recognized for her leadership Haley Stahl, senior in agronomy, is the fall 2021 recipient of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Student Council Leadership Excellence Award ..read more

Crops Team Success For the first time since 1988, the ISU Crops Team won first place in both Fall collegiate competitions. The team was made up of Wyatt Bailey, Caitlyn Bruntz, Alex Coughlin, and Tom Thompson. The team attended competitions in Kansas City and right at home in Ames. Between these two competitions, the team ended up with over 30 awards. The team's hard work and determination definitely shine through their success. We are excited to see how future competitions go for this amazing team. We are extremely proud of the ISU Crops Team and all of the success they have found ..read more

Recipients of the C. R. Weber Award for Excellence in Plant Breeding Recipients of the C. R ..read more

Transfer Learning Community Field Trip The Transfer Agronomy Learning Community took a “field trip” around the agronomy building at t ..read more