The Worker Protection Standard (WPS) is a federal regulation designed to protect agricultural workers and pesticide handlers from pesticide poisoning and injury. The WPS applies whenever a pesticide used in the production of agricultural plants has an "Agricultural Use Requirements" section on the product label. This publication outlines the responsibilities of agricultural employers to ensure that employees are protected from pesticide exposure and provides resources for additional information.

This field records guide is designed to record crop management activities and field operations. It can be used for entering restricted-use pesticide information for required pesticide records as well as field maps, weather records, and EPA registration numbers.

Printed copies available to Extension and Outreach staff only.

Iowa has been working for decades to protect and improve water quality through best scientific management, land use, and edge-of-field practices to reduce nutrient loss from farmland.

The Iowa Nutrient Reduction Strategy is a science and technology-based framework to assess and reduce nutrients to Iowa waters and the Gulf of Mexico.

A helpful handout for discussing variables that may influence farmer decisions regarding on-farm management practices, such as the decision to plant or not plant cover crops. This handout is based on research by the social science team of the USDA Sustainable Corn Project, led by Iowa State University.

More details specific to this research and handout can be found online at: https://www.researchgate.net, in a paper authored by Lois Wright Morton, Jon Hobbs, J.G. Arbuckle Jr., and Adam Loy

Strip-tillage is when a crop is planted into narrow, tilled strips and the non-tilled area between the strips might contain residue from the previous season's main crop or a living or dead cover crop.

Combining strip-tillage and cover crops offers various benefits including minimal soil erosion, maintains soil moisture and weed suppression. This publication provides basic information on using a strip-tillage system with rolled cover crops as a conservation best management practice in vegetable production systems such broccoli, peppers, pumpkins, squash and tomatoes.

Find out what factors affect pesticide drift distances during ground spray application conditions. Tips are provided for reducing drift.

(Previously known as PAT 0045A)

Find management practices that keep pesticides and nutrients in the field and out of Iowa's rivers and streams. Describes how pesticides move through the soil. Includes a checklist of management practices to protect water resources.

Previously known as PAT 0055

Survey results for the 2014 Iowa Farm and Rural Life Poll concern farmers’ perceptions on pesticide resistance. Questions focused on farmer experience with resistant weeds and rootworms, concern about resistance, use of various resistance management practices, and the perceived effectiveness of those practices.

Site-specific management and planning for nutrient inputs is needed for optimizing economic return and minimizing effects on environmental quality. This publication includes information about factors that influence soil fertility, fertilization management, and associated relations with environmental quality.

Learn about the five cockroach species in Iowa and the management and chemical treatment possibilities.

The most common cause of well water test failures is bacterial problems caused by well deterioration. This publication addresses how to handle contaminated well issues by looking at coliform and nitrate problems.