Ames, Iowa
May 10, 2007
Crop conditions in Iowa can change
rapidly during the growing season. That’s why
Iowa State University and
Iowa Farmer Today
have teamed up to launch CropWatch Blog.
The new website features 13 agronomy specialists from Iowa State
and industry partners of ISU’s Corn and Soybean Initiative. They
will post reports of crop conditions, weed problems, and disease
and pest threats as they arise in fields across Iowa.
CropWatch Blog, which went live on May 10, is accessible from
the home page of Iowa
Farmer Today, or directly at
http://www.iowafarmertoday.com/blog. The blog will be
continuously updated throughout the growing season, as the crop
experts become aware of changing conditions important to Iowa
farmers. Visitors to the site can pose questions to bloggers or
report conditions in their areas.
The 13 members of the CropWatch Blog team are:
- Palle Pedersen, ISU Extension soybean specialist and assistant
professor of agronomy, Ames;
- Roger Elmore, ISU Extension corn specialist and professor of
agronomy, Ames;
- Mike Owen, ISU Extension weed specialist and professor of
agronomy, Ames;
- Clarke McGrath, ISU Corn and Soybean Initiative partnership
manager, Harlan;
- Jim Fawcett, ISU Extension crops field specialist, Iowa City;
- John Holmes, ISU Extension crops field specialist, Clarion;
- Virgil Schmitt, ISU Extension crops field specialist,
Muscatine;
- Mark Licht, ISU Extension crops field specialist, Carroll;
- Amy Asmus, owner/certified crop adviser, Asmus Farm Supply,
Rake;
- Ryan Lemke, precision ag manager, Heartland Co-op, West Des
Moines; and
- Chad Hartzler, seed sales and marketing manager, Tony Licht,
regional seed specialist, and
- Larry Christensen, regional seed specialist, West Central
Coop, Ralston.
A summary of reports on the blog will be published in the weekly
print edition of Iowa Farmer Today.
The ISU Corn and Soybean Initiative, supported by the College
of Agriculture and ISU Extension, focuses on partnerships to
better serve the needs of Iowa’s number-one-in-the-nation crop
growers with science-based production information.
Iowa Farmer Today is distributed to 70,000 farm owners and
operators in and around Iowa each week. The staff of 34 includes
an award-winning editorial department with extensive knowledge
of farming and more than 135 years of journalism experience. IFT
also publishes Midwest Marketer, a weekly, tab sized beef
publication. Electronic services include Iowa Farmer Today
Online, the company's home page, and MarketWatch Online, a
twice-daily subscription e-mail newsletter focused on crop and
livestock markets. IFT Publications, Inc.'s home office is in
Cedar Rapids, with satellite offices in Ankeny, Glenwood,
Bloomfield and Maxwell. Iowa Farmer Today is a property of Lee
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