Iowa State University will hold the 2025 Soil Management and Land Valuation Conference on Wednesday, May 21. The conference will offer education and networking opportunities for farm managers, rural appraisers, real estate brokers, and others interested in the land market in Iowa.
Research Scientist Phil Gassman was announced as the recipient of a $16,847 grant from the US Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture for the project "Integrated Hydro-economic Land Use Modeling for Nutrient Runoff M
CARD Director John Crespi announced Drs. Yue Zhao and Jian Chen as recipients of the 2025 CARD Award for Best Ph.D. Dissertation in Agricultural, Environmental, and Energy Economics and Policy.
A new study reveals that how your brain reacts to food purchasing decisions can be used to determine your political affiliation with almost 80% accuracy.
Widespread planting of corn hybrids designed to combat corn rootworm, the crop’s most damaging pest in the Corn Belt, is reducing both the technology’s effectiveness and some farmers’ profits. The findings come from a new analysis of 12 years of field trials and seed usage data across 10 Midwestern corn-growing states, including Iowa.
Drs. J. Gordon Arbuckle, Amani Elobeid, Hongli Feng, and Jian Chen all received awards at the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Spring Awards Program on March 11.
Reaching Regions, a new academic journal from Iowa State University, the North American Regional Science Council, and West Virginia University, has launched its first issue on the Iowa State University Digital Press.
Hongli Feng is a member of the team that won the 2025 Dean's Citation Award for their exemplary dedication to the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. The team was recognized for their work on the Agrivoltaics project.
Professor David Hennessy will have an article published in the forthcoming issue of Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. Hennessy authored the article "Information as a catalyst for industrialization."
Professor Dermot Hayes published an article in the most recent issue of Nature Communications. Hayes authored the article "The optimum nitrogen fertilizer rate for maize in the US Midwest is increasing" with Emerson D. Nafziger of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Mitchell E. Baum, John E. Sawyer, Michael J. Castellano, Marshall D. McDaniel, Mark A. Licht, Matthew J. Helmers, and Sotirios V. Archontoulis, all of Iowa State University.
Assistant Professor Gil DePaula published an article in the most recent issue of Environment and Development Economics. DePaula authored the article "Comparing market instruments for forest conservation in Brazil using farm-level census data" with Leandro Veloso of Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
A report co-authored by Professor Dermot Hayes and Jerome Dumortier, a CARD Faculty Collaborator and Professor at Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis, was cited in "The 2025 Economic Report of the President." Hayes and Dumortier were a part of the 68 subject matter experts from 13 academic research institutions across the nation that collaborated for more than two years on the Roads to Removal report.
