Cynthia Bartel is the ag policy specialist on our project, and yes, she knows policy, but that’s not all she knows about.
Hint… It’s also about the cows and a lot more. Dr. Bartel qualifies as an all-around Ag-Renaissance woman. Learn more about Dr. Bartel in Wisconsin dairy farm embraces robots, health monitoring and intercropping (https://www.farmprogress.com/dairy-cattle/wisconsin-dairy-farm-embraces-robots-health-monitoring-boluses-and-intercropping)
Yes, we are a research project, but we never forget that we are in the business of educating the next generation. In the summer, we mentor prospective STEM Education school teachers [See more at: https://www.regenpgc.org/theme-3-education/2023-ret-reu-programs-copy/]. But, all year round, our team mentors a talented group of graduate students in our Graduate Education Community.
Today, we celebrate Memiş Bilgici from our Breeding & Genetics Objective[See more at: https://www.regenpgc.org/objective-2-plant-breeding-and-genetics/], who presented this poster and was awarded a travel grant to Hawai’i: (Bilgici Memiş, Yu-Ru Chen, & Thomas Lübberstedt. (2025, May 19–23). Do we need dedicated maize varieties for perennial groundcover systems? [Poster]. 2025 National Association of Plant Breeders Annual Meeting, Kona, Hawa’i, United States).
Learn more by reading Memiş’ Poster Abstract at https://napbannualmeeting.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/NAPB_2025_Booklet_Digital_VF2.pdf, Poster #50.
Dr. Amani Elobeid, a RegenPGC Socioeconomic Policy Impacts Objective member, is a teaching professor of economics, Deiter Endowed Chair for Sustaining Excellence in Agricultural Business, and a faculty member in the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD). And now she is one of 12 women whose leadership has made a difference at Iowa State University. And now she will be honored on the 2025 Women Impacting ISU calendar.
Each year, a committee of students, faculty, and staff – including past calendar honorees – evaluates the nomination packets and selects the final honorees. The committee chooses the 12 honorees based on their impact on service, teaching, research, administration, scholarship, and campus activities, depending on each nominee’s role on campus.
The Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics sponsors the calendar with funding provided by the Office of the Senior Vice President and Provost.
Is it progress if it is not recorded? Our latest quarterly report skips right over that philosophical question. Find out what our researchers were up to between February 1 and April 30, 2024, as we pursue our long-term goal of developing and increasing the reliability of PGC systems. We have many accomplishments, but not everything we do is SCIENCE. We like to share what we learn in ways the interested public can follow. For example, here is an outreach accomplishment from this past quarter, among many other things highlighted in our report. Stay tuned to our blog and our social media account on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/regenpgc) for our latest news.
Iowa Learning Farms On-Line Virtual Field Day – A New Direction in Cover Crops: Developing Perennial Ground Cover for Corn Systems in the Midwest – March 21, 2024
The virtual field day had 171 participants. The program—delivered by Dan Andersen and Raj Raman—covered an overview of the proposed PGC system, management options and perspectives, and the potential benefits it can bring to a farming operation.
RegenPGC Yr 3 Q3 Quarterly Update: https://www.regenpgc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/2024-07-02-RegenPGC-Quarterly-Report-YR-3-Q3.pdf
We are pleased to be working with 4H to share our project with youth on June 23rd at the Iowa State University Northern Research Farm.
Our team will share information and coordinate hands-on activities and experiments for kids to learn more about PGC and its benefits. Activities include rain simulators, insect collection and identification, soil microbiology, exploration of cover crops, and more.
Date: June 23 / Time: 8:30 AM-12:30 PM
Lunch included
MORE INFORMATION: hayslett@iastate.edu
