ISRC/ISU Host ISA Experience Class
October 17, 2023
On August 2, ISRC staff coordinated a visit by the ISA Experience Class to ISU’s Field Extension Education Laboratory (FEEL) and the Agricultural Engineering and Agronomy (AEA) Research Farm, both located near Boone, IA. FEEL Coordinator Edward “Max” Ernat, gave the group a tour of demonstration plots, and Monica Pennewitt and Chelsea Harbach, plant pathology, entomology and microbiology, gave a variety of tips and tricks to identify and manage soybean problems.
Later, the group stopped at the ISU AEA Research Farm where Carolina Freitas, a graduate student of Sotirios Archontoulis in agronomy, gave an overview of the Continuous Soybean Research project, which is supported by the ISA, Iowa soybean farmers and the ISRC’s industry partners through the ISRC.
