I will cover  six topics in this Manager’s Corner: Update on testing during the pandemic, expectations for quality of incoming seed from agronomic species, testing industrial hemp & cover crop [...]

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 [...]