About the Initiative
- Iowa State University's new Corn and Soybean Initiative is an effort to better serve the needs of the state's producers of our nationally leading corn and soybean crops.
- Iowa State's Corn and Soybean Initiative will work to maintain Iowa's top corn and soybean production by providing a central access point for research-based production information and education. The initiative will help integrate Iowa State's applied research and extension programs and expertise in corn and soybean production with the goal of improving the state's growers' productivity and competitiveness.
- Two of the main points of the initiative are extension education and production research.
- ISU wants our extension programs to be as complete, convenient and coordinated as they can to better serve Iowa's growers. That will mean seeking input from growers and related industries to anticipate future research areas that will impact corn and soybean production. Hence the partnership program with agriculture retail. This part of the initiative will work to strengthen partnerships with agribusinesses, retailers, commodity organizations, farm media and others to maximize opportunities to reach growers with research, extension and educational resources.
- The initiative will work closely with ISU faculty and staff in agricultural and biosystems engineering, agronomy, economics, entomology and plant pathology as well as ISU Extension field crop specialists across the state.
- Strengthening the delivery of crop production information to growers, including through existing relationships with agribusinesses, is a key part of the initiative.
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