Des Moines Register
05-06-07
Grassroots
Dedication ceremony set for swine center
The Lauren Christian Swine Research Center at Iowa State University's Bilsland
Memorial Farm near Madrid will be dedicated at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Christian, who died in 1998, was a Charles F. Curtiss Distinguished Professor of
Agriculture in animal science and an ISU animal science faculty member for 33
years. He was an internationally recognized expert in swine genetics, a wellknown teacher and the first director of the Iowa Pork Industry Center at ISU.
An open house and tour of the new Baird Swine Breeding and Gestation Facility
will follow the dedication.
State youth program extends deadline
The registration deadline for the Iowa Agricultural Youth Institute has been
extended to Friday.
Space is still available in the program, which is for high school sophomores,
juniors and seniors. The conference will be held June 11-14 on the Iowa State
University campus.
For an application or more information, call (515) 281-6444 or go to
www.iada.state.ia.us.
ISU agriculture students win national contests
Iowa State University agricultural students won three national contests last
month.
A team of ISU agronomy students won the Ag Knowledge Quiz Bowl and the Ag
Computers Contest and placed second in the Crops Contest at the North
American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture competition in Hutchinson, Kan.
Raechel Baumgartner won first place in the Ag Computers Contest, finished first
in the Ag Computers knowledge exam and was second in Crops Contest lab.
Michael Schrum, a senior from Grand Junction, was first in applications of the Ag
Computers Contest.
Also, ISU students finished first in the 2007 American Society of Agronomy
National Collegiate Soil Judging Contest at Utah State University.
Nick Ihde, a junior in agricultural business from Prairie du Chien, Wis., was the
first-place individual overall. Jana Matthiesen, a senior in agricultural studies from
Bryant, finished sixth.
Soybean scholarships given to eight students
The Iowa Soybean Association has awarded $2,000 scholarships to eight Iowa
high school seniors.
They are William Davenport of Thayer, Mary Foell of Schaller, Jacob Hunter of
De Witt, Elizabeth Juchems of Plainfield, Megan Kregel of Guttenberg, Cameron
Luedtke of Marion, Brad McDonald of Hopkinton and Blake Woebbeking of
Gladbrook.