2018 Garden Calendar - Celebrating with Plants

This fully revised booklet helps corn producers and other professionals in the agriculture industry identify and scout for corn diseases and provides general recommendations for management. Also included are illustrated disease cycles for primary diseases, a foliar disease estimation chart, and corn growth and development and staging information.

Looking to purchase multiple copies? Corn Diseases is also sold in boxed quantities of 50 at a reduced price ($3.50/copy).

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A 12-month, 11" x 17" full color wall calendar featuring healthy recipes, including homemade mac and cheese, black bean burgers, banana berry popsicles, blueberry pancakes, sweet pork stir fry, oatmeal cookies, and more!

Each month highlights a new recipe, suggested meal plan, and food prep ideas. Only low-cost, readily available ingredients and basic equipment are needed to prepare recipes.

Additional information about the 2018 Healthy & Homemade calendar is available at: www.extension.iastate.edu/humansciences/nutrition-calendar/

An easy-to-carry guide (5" x 8 1/2") for home gardeners and visitors to public gardens in the Midwest. Color photos and basic information about growing 300 annual and perennial flowers, Buck roses, ornamental grasses, herbs, vines, and even water plants. Symbols help to identify sun/shade requirements and indicate special uses (containers, butterfly gardens, etc).

Containing over 70 recipes from Main Dishes, Appetizers, and Desserts to Soups, Salads, Sides, and even Snacks.  This 82-page cookbook will have you preparing healthy meals and smartly spending your dollars too!

Makes a great gift as well!

This revised, 158-page pocket-sized guide (3-3/4" x 6") combines the Corn Field Guide and Soybean Field Guide in one publication for ease of use by corn and soybean farmers, agronomists, and crop scouts.

Newly updated text and images provide the tools for identifying insects, diseases, and disorders of corn and soybean in the Midwest. The guide also contains information on developmental stages, pesticide decisions, and other production-related topics. This publication is constructed of durable, weather-safe materials to withstand regular use in the field.

It is produced and distributed in partnership between the ISU College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and ISU Extension and Outreach.

Looking to purchase multiple copies? The Corn and soybean Field Guide is sold in boxed quantities of 25 at a reduced price ($10/copy). CSI

Corn Growth and Development is an updated and expanded publication and includes whole plant photography, detailed descriptions of vegetative and reproductive development, and dry matter and nutrient accumulation figures.

Corn Growth and Development replaces the long-standing publication, How A Corn Plant Develops (SR 0048).

Large quantity discounts (100 copies+) are available. To inquire, please contact us by email (extstore@iastate.edu) or calling (515)294-5247.

All images from this publication can be purchased by visiting our Digital Media section.

Requests for permission to repost, reprint or use content of ISU Extension and Outreach publications.

A Farmer’s Guide to Corn Diseases provides an overview of the corn diseases that currently occur in the United states and Canada, with an emphasis on diagnosing diseases in the field. Information for each disease includes symptoms and signs, conditions that favor disease, similar looking diseases and disorders, and a review of basic management options. The book also contains a diagnostic key and disease distribution maps.

Published by APS Press, A Farmer’s Guide to Corn Diseases was developed by Iowa State University in partnership with several other universities. CSI

Hundreds of perennials prefer the bright light and accompanying heat that define sunny sites. This full color publication gives growing characteristics for more than 100 perennials that thrive in the sun in zones 3 to 5. Special features include 140 color photos, plant descriptions, specialty plant lists, and other tips.

This 129-page notebook has dual purpose: to prepare swine producers for the Common Swine Industry Audit (CSIA) and a collection point to organize and store the necessary documentation in one place.

Chapters 1 through 4 provide advance preparation for an audit. The complete CSIA booklet is included. Conveniently assembled into a 3-ring binder, 31 tabbed sections provide instructions and a structure for organizing resources.

A Farmer’s Guide to Soybean Diseases provides an overview of the soybean diseases that currently occur in the United States and Canada, with an emphasis on diagnosing diseases in the field. Information for each disease includes symptoms and signs, conditions that favor disease, similar looking diseases and disorders, and a review of basic management options. The book also contains a diagnostic key and disease distribution maps.

Published by APS Press, A Farmer’s Guide to Soybean Diseases was developed by Iowa State University in partnership with several other universities. CSI

This gardener's guide to annual flowers includes 106 plant descriptions plus 186 color photos. A comparison chart makes it easy to choose plants by height or flower color. Recommendations also are given for specific uses, such as drought tolerance, fragrance, and cut-flower bouquets.

The Weed Identification Field Guide, 2nd Edition, is a revised and expanded pocket-sized guide (3-3/4" x 6") for farmers and agronomists to use for weed identification in Iowa corn and soybean fields. The 2nd edition includes four new weed species, many new images, and updated text.

The 108 page booklet includes tools to aid in accurate weed identification as well as weed lifecycle and herbicide management and stewardship information. It includes over 35 illustrations and more than 250 high-quality photographs of weeds found in Iowa.

Previously known as CSI 0003

Looking to purchase multiple copies? The Weed Identification Field Guide 2nd Edition is sold in boxed quantities of 44 at a reduced price (less than $8/copy!).

Field Crop Insects contains descriptions and color images of more than 55 pest and beneficial insects, as well as information on insect life cycle, damage, scouting and management options. There is also information on basic entomology and integrated pest management tactics.

Field Crop Insects is a cooperative effort between the Iowa Soybean Association and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and Iowa State University Extension and Outreach.