_{August 4, 2022}

Each year, the ISRC hosts a field tour with the goal of engaging graduate students, faculty and staff in the departments of agronomy, agriculture and biosystems engineering, and plant pathology, entomology, and microbiology from Iowa State. On August 4, the ISRC coordinated a group of 30 to tour Beck's Hybrids near Colfax, IA, Kemin Industries in Des Moines, IA, and Salin247 from Ames, IA.

The group started the day at Beck's with an overview of some of the research they are working on as well as a tour of their field test plots, followed by a demonstration by Salin247, an engineering company working on autonomous farming solutions.

The day ended with a tour of Kemin, which is known for creating and supplying over 500 specialty ingredients for human and animal health and nutrition, food technologies, crop technologies, biofuels and animal vaccine industries in more than 120 countries.