Paving the way with soy
A biopolymer using high-oleic soybean oil could soon be replacing petroleum-based products in asphalt. Iowa State University research engineers have good news for soybean growers: a soy oil polymer for asphalt paving.
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Can Iowans speed up water conservation efforts?
ISU ABE Professor Matt Helmers weighs in on a pressing question: can Iowa speed up its water conservation efforts? And at what point is it too late to make a change?
Cold weather is a benefit to corn still in the fields
An Iowa State University grain quality specialist, Charles Hurburgh says some growers are choosing to leave corn in the fields because the kernels’ moisture content is too high for safe storage.
Choose a side, Tana! – from The Hype
Path to better, cheaper asphalt roads involves soybean oil
If one heat lamp is good, is two better?
During the 2019 Pig Welfare Symposium, Suzanne Leonard presented the “Effects of one or two heat lamps on sow behavior and piglet performance in farrowing stalls.”
Innovation Corps at Iowa State: Helping researchers turn ideas into companies
Iowa State Daily: Hiring Hero Jim Fay answers a classic interview question
ISU ABE students place in Borlaug Poster Competition
Iowa State University’s historic ties to the Transportation Research Board
Iowa State takes learning beyond traditional classroom with new minor
Iowa State University (ISU) broke ground on a new state-of-the-art facility this month, a facility that will help propel the University into answering a major need.
Iowa State researcher weighs in on new solar-powered dehydrator to help small farmers reduce food waste
“If it takes energy and takes resources that folks don’t have to use or to burn, they’re not going to use it,” says Gretchen Mosher, a professor of agricultural and biosystems engineering at Iowa State University. “And it will just become one of those projects that the Western people come in and develop and then it sits there after they leave.”
ISU CCEE associate professor works with Science Journal for Kids to educate young STEM enthusiasts about bed bug infestations
Creepy crawly bed bugs are the stuff of homeowner nightmares. ISU CCEE’s Chris Rehmann has been working with a team of researchers to explore the best practices to help both landlords and tenants deal with this pest. In a recent edition of Science Journal for Kids, Rehmann’s work was featured.
