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Ag and Environment

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ISU students fund green roof for Memorial Union

Iowa State University will install a green roof on a portion of the Memorial Union building on Friday, using $34,000 in student activity fee funding provided by the university’s student government. The project, in which …

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Growing a small farm

High cholesterol led the Book family to beef.

Ethan and Rebecca Book, both 32, turned that health problem into a business that has caught the attention of a small farm specialist, not to mention 800 …

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Research, ag and environment events scheduled

Upcoming events:
April 17 – Research symposium – Iowa State University students will present more than 100 research projects during the sixth annual Symposium on Undergraduate Research and Creative Expression. The symposium will be from …

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Pioneer set to open new facility

Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc., a DuPont business, will have a grand opening celebration of its new $40 million Beaver Creek research facility in Johnston on Monday.

The facility, at 8501 N.W. 62nd Ave., is expected …

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Monsanto posts $1.2 billion quarterly profit

Monsanto Co. posted a higher-than-expected quarterly profit this morning and said early planting in the United States and a 15 percent jump in sales would boost its full-year outlook, Reuters reported. The company said it …

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Young farmers cashing in on former conservation land

North Dakota farmer Justin Zahradka will plant wheat this spring on 40 acres that had been off-limits for two decades, protected by a government conservation program that is shrinking as high crop prices make farmland …

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Registration deadline approaching for wind conference

Saturday is the deadline for the early registration discount for the Iowa Wind Energy Association’s annual Wind Conference, April 9 to April 11 at the Iowa Events Center in Des Moines. Registration forms are at …

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Solar panels can compete with TVs on cost

Solar panel prices, which have fallen 80 percent in the past three years, can fall further because the technology is simpler than many consumer electronics that are being made cheaper now, according to an EI …

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Agency expects nuclear energy use to double

Global use of nuclear energy could increase by as much as 100 percent in the next two decades on the back of growth in Asia, even though groundbreakings for new reactors fell last year after …