I will cover three topics in this Manager Corner:  COVID-19 & seed testing, testing cover crop seed and industrial hemp. It seems like ages since COVID-19 started stirring things up [...]

The holiday season coincides with a busy time for staff, temp and student workers at the ISU Seed Lab as it also coincides with a busy time for many of [...]

As we move into our fall and winter testing season I would like to touch on a couple of items: Submitting Seeds for Cover Crops Please note the information about [...]

Dealing last summer with rye seeds that had issues with fungal infection by Fusarium spp. and low germination was a bit of a warning about potential corn and soybean seed quality this [...]

Seed producers and farmers in southern Iowa struggling through dry conditions this summer probably never dreamed they would be dealing with weeks of rain this fall.  If you live in [...]

May is normally a transition month at the Iowa State Seed Laboratory —when the volume of samples for corn and soybean testing tapers off, and the focus shifts more to [...]

It’s funny how misconceptions can have so much impact on our decision-making process.  For instance, when driving across the country, when you think about flat, tedious landscapes, what comes to [...]

A great deal has occurred since writing my last Manager’s Corner column in February. My staff and I have completed the two weeks of ISU Seed Analyst Short Course training, [...]

Challenges Involved in Identifying Palmer Amaranth My August Manager’s Corner article was written during the early stages of news breaking on the discovery of Palmer Amaranth seed in Pollinator and other CRP [...]