Good Advice

Listed below are the Iowa Certified Crop Adviser board members. Please feel free to contact any of them with questions or comments.

• Bill Ehm, IDNR, Des Moines, 515.281.8656, [email protected]
• Amy Asmus, Asmus Farm Supply, 641.566.3658, Rake, [email protected]
• Bruce Baier, Co-Chair, Ag Partners LLC, Albert City, 712.843.5263, [email protected]
• Jason Dodd, Pioneer Hi-Bred, Johnston, 515.254.2725, [email protected]
• Jim Frederick, Garst Seed Company, Orient, 641.337.5064, [email protected]
• Jim Gillespie, IDALS-Soil Conservation Division, Des Moines, 515-281-7043, [email protected]
• Randall Law, AgSource Belmond Labs, Belmond, 641.444.3384, [email protected]
• Joan O’Brien (State Agent), Des Moines, 800.383.1682, [email protected]
• Rich Pope, ISU, Ames, 515.294.5899, [email protected]
• Pat Reeg, Chair, Iowa Soybean Association, Johnston, 515.276.1693, [email protected]
• R. Aaron Saeugling, Iowa State University, Creston, 641.782.8426, [email protected]
• Duane Sand, Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation, Des Moines, 515.288.1846, [email protected]
• Barb Stewart, NRCS, Des Moines, 515.323.2260, [email protected]
• Roger Taylor, Trelay Seed Company, Lancaster, 608.778.5106, [email protected]
• Roger Tietjens, United Suppliers, Mason City, 605.759.4810, [email protected] (more…)

I am excited to serve as your Chair of the Iowa CCA Board.  For those who don’t know me here is a quick background.  I grew up on a family farm near Bellevue, Iowa in Jackson County.  Graduated from Iowa State University in May of 1995 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Agricultural Business and completed a Masters of Science in Agronomy in May 2008.  I have worked for Servi-Tech, Neowa FS, Inc., and AgVantage FS, Inc.  I am currently the Technology Manager for the Iowa Soybean Association On-Farm Network®.  I have been a Certified Crop Advisor since December of 2001 and served on the Iowa CCA Board since June of 2006.

I became a CCA because I wanted the growers I work with to know they can trust my advice.  I serve on the Iowa CCA Board to increase the value of the CCA program.  As we enter the spring 2009 growing season with new challenges and opportunities I encourage all Iowa CCAs to play an active role in the program.  How can you contribute? (more…)

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently finalized revisions to the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permitting requirements for concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs).

EPA will now require a Nutrient Management Plan (NMP) for manure to be submitted as part of a CAFO’s Clean Water Act permit application. Previous rules required a CAFO operator to use a NMP for controlling manure, but the revised regulation builds on that by requiring the NMP to be submitted with the permit application. The plan will be reviewed by the permitting authority and conditions based on it will be incorporated as enforceable terms of the permit. After reviewing the NMP, the permitting authorities are required to provide the public with an opportunity to review the NMP before it is finalized. (more…)