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Carli weighs the options about alternative crops with Warren Pierson, field manager at Iowa State University’s Field Extension Education Lab. Warren shares his experience with growing crops we don’t normally consider.

National FFA Organization 

National 4H Organization 

Crops Feed The World

Iowa State University Extension Store: Pasture Management Guide for Livestock Producers

Recognizing Challenges to Iowa’s Annual Cropping Systems 

From Warren Pierson:

Practical Farmers of Iowa

Integrated Crop Management ISU

Integrated Pest Management ISU

Iowa State University Research Farm Reports

Iowa State University Extension Store: Crops

Carli also speaks with Assistant Teaching Professor Kate Gilbert who has years of industry experience with processing and packaging. Kate also shares ideas about consumer involvement and the direction we are headed with more transparency.

National FFA Organization 

National 4H Organization 

Crops Feed The World

From Kate Gilbert:

50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Quietly Paid Scientists To Point Blame At Fat 

America’s Eating Habits: Food Away From Home 

50 Shades of Brown 

The Counter - it used to be the New Food Economy.  The journalists there do a fantastic job covering aspects of the food system that we wonder about but don't often hear.  

Reducing Wasted Food At Home - there are many good references about food waste. The EPA website is a good starting place & includes what consumers can do at home to reduce food waste.

Healthy Soils Are The Basis for Healthy Food Production

The Great Nutrient Collapse -This is a fascinating article about how increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are changing the composition of plants and foods (and not for the better).

On this episode of the I See Dead Plants Podcast, host Ed Zaworski continues the conversation with entomologist Ashley Dean about her article on soybean aphid, published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Society of Chemical Industry, called “Developing a decision‐making framework for insect pest management: a case study using Aphis glycines (Hemiptera: Aphididae)”.

Additional Resources:

Soybean Aphid Field Guide from the North Central Soybean Research Program.

Soybean Aphid Resources from the Soybean Research and Information Network.

Soybean Aphid Informational YouTube Video (26 minutes) from Iowa State University.

Biology of the Soybean Aphid, Aphis glycines (Hemiptera: Aphididae) in the United States by Tilmon et al. 2011.

Management Recommendations for Soybean Aphid (Hemiptera: Aphididae) in the United States by Hodgson et al. 2012.

North Central Soybean Research Program web site.

Evaluation of Soybean Aphid Management Tacitcs from Iowa State University.

Soybean Entomology Research Laboratory at Iowa State University.

How to cite this podcast:

Zaworski, E. (Host) and Dean, A. (Interviewee). Army of Fatherless Clones: Soybean Aphid Decision Making - Part 2. S1:E2 (Podcast). July 28, 2021. In I See Dead Plants. Crop Protection Network. https://www.ipm.iastate.edu/podcasts/i-see-dead-plants/discovering-right-decision-soybean-aphid-ipm-part-2-ashley-dean

It is important to share different career ideas with students to keep them thinking about the long term. In this episode Carli talks about the different options within the Ag industry. 

Ag Career of the Day 

Iowa State University Extension and Outreach Integrated Pest Management 

Iowa State University Extension and Outreach 4H 

Crops Feed the World Lessons