Following the PGC Story
By Ralph Danquah-Acquah, RegenPGC Graduate Student. Originally published on LinkedIn, Aug. 21, 2026. See this story in a video format I went into the Perennial Ground Cover literature looking for
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A Summer for the Future
It’s amazing what you can accomplish in the summer, and Kaylee Johnson is living proof of that. Kaylee spent the summer with us in Ames researching “How do Sulfur and
Research sure, but farmers never stop innovating!
Yes, we are a university-based research project, but we are more than that! Our Co-Pd Dr. Cynthia Bartel, is working on a farm-based trial of silage corn and alfalfa perennial
A summer’s worth of growth
2026 RegenPGC Undergraduate Research Intern and Wartburg College student Alex Haus got a summer’s worth of learning with RegenPGC, and we like to think that a few lessons will last
“What if the cure for a dying Gulf was a nap?”
Guest Post: Vipul Kumar, RegenPGC Graduate Education Community “What if the cure for a dying Gulf was a nap?” That’s how I opened my FFAR Fellows 3-minute lightning talk, which
Our mission… sharing knowledge across many dimensions
RegenPGC is a research project, for sure, but we are more than that. We want to make sure that our work is accessible beyond academia. Iowa State University, our primary
We report, therefore we exist…
We believe in the adage that unless work is memorialized, it doesn’t really exist (except in the dark recesses of someone’s mind). This is why you can follow the investment
Poa secunda, a Promising Perennial Groundcover?
RegenPGC Graduate Education Community member Vipul Kumar has been showing his poster, “Vernalization response and freezing tolerance of Poa secunda, a promising perennial groundcover” far and wide, from Texas to
Mapping priority areas for runoff and erosion control in Iowa corn landscapes
Ralph Danquah-Acquah, a member of our RegenPGC Graduate Education Community, shares his research in this guest post, which previously appeared on LinkedIn (July 2026). I completed my CRP 5510 GIS
Ralph Danquah-Acquah gets a presentation opportunity
Great to see this opportunity for RegenPGC Graduate Education Community member Ralph Danquah-Acquah to present his poster, Green between the rows: modeling Corn-RhB perennial ground cover systems,” at th at
From Arizona to Iowa: Meet Kaylee
From sunny and DRY Arizona to humid Iowa can be a bit of schock in the summer, but having met 2026 Research Undergraduate Intern and future math teacher Kaylee Johnson,