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SAVE THE DATE – 2025 Iowa Seed Association Annual Golf Tournament & Education

Wednesday, June 18, 2025 LOCATION Veenker Memorial Golf Course | Ames, Iowa
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SAVE THE DATE – 2025 Iowa Seed Association Annual Golf Tournament & Education

Corn Cover Crop Initiative 2023 Results and Collaboration

Iowa Seed Corn Cover Crop Initiative Releases 2023 Results, Provides Update On Collaboration with Heartland Co-op’s Conservation Drainage Program Contact: ...
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Corn Cover Crop Initiative 2023 Results and Collaboration

Pesticide Applicator Self-Service Site Now Available From IDALS

Pesticide applicators and licensed businesses have a new way to apply for their certification, pay fees, and check on their...
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Pesticide Applicator Self-Service Site Now Available From IDALS

Help Applicators Keep Field Workers Safe

Pesticide applicators can now know in near real-time where seed field workers are active. Those registered with the FieldWatch system...
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Help Applicators Keep Field Workers Safe

Iowa Seed Corn Cover Crop Initiative

Check out project details at sustainableseedcorn.org>>

The Iowa Seed Corn Cover Crops Initiative works to provide seed corn growers with cost-share to help incorporate cover crops into their operation. Click here to see Iowa’s ground results.

Do you grow seed corn in Iowa? If so, you may be eligible for cost-share assistance from the Iowa Seed Corn Cover Crops Initiative, which is exclusive to seed corn growers in Iowa.

Cost Share Information Online

The Iowa Seed Corn Cover Crops Initiative is a project developed by the Iowa Seed Association in conjunction with the Agribusiness Association of Iowa, Iowa Farm Bureau Federation, and Iowa Corn. A grant from the Iowa Department of Agriculture under their Clean Water Initiative program provides funding for the project, which began in 2016.

The Iowa Seed Corn Cover Crops Initiative focuses on ways to help increase the adoption of cover crops specifically within the seed corn production system in Iowa. The focus on seed corn is driven by the unique opportunity that seed corn provides due to the earlier harvest, thereby providing better timing opportunities for establishing cover crops in the late summer and fall after harvest. This focus is also heavily driven by the seed corn industry in Iowa, and their efforts to help promote and support the use of cover crops as part of Iowa’s Nutrient Strategy.