Payson Kerns and Baili (Kerns) Maurer both grew up around their family’s eastern Iowa business, Edgewood Locker. This local, custom meat locker and processor in Edgewood was founded by their grandparents in 1966.
Growing up in the Washington, D.C. area, Simone Soso’s parents, a medical doctor and a speech pathologist, continually encouraged her interest in science and math.
By: Melea Reicks Licht
Hailey Gandrup leads Dilly, a patient Arabian gelding, around the arena. Jensen, a seven-year-old rider at One Heart Equestrian Therapy, looks down beaming. He’s ready to ride.
Fueled by a group of dedicated and passionate alumni and friends, the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences campaign committee celebrated the remarkable success of Forever True, For Iowa State earlier this year.
Load by load, Pete and Dana Wenstrand bolstered their commitment to the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences by donating grain at their local Essex, Iowa, elevator.
Name: Joi Latson
ISU Degree Information: ’18 Global Resource Systems, Languages and Cultures for Professions with a Concentration in Spanish
Name: Amanda Chung ('12 animal ecology)
Title: Student Services Specialist, Iowa State University Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management (NREM)
By Kate Tindall and Melea Reicks Licht
Ag-vocate (n.) — one who supports or promotes the interests of farmers, agricultural issues and the agriculture industry as a whole.
Jacob Handsaker’s earliest memories include carpet farming on the living room floor of his childhood home near Radcliffe, Iowa.
DeAnne (McCulloh) Bloomberg, director of issue management for the Illinois Farm Bureau, develops and coordinates messaging for the organization, oversees media relations and social media and conducts media training for Farm Bureau leaders and staf
Name: Jacob Button
Hometown: Conrad, Iowa
Job Title: Golf Course Superintendent
Name: Sarah Kendell
Hometown: Bellevue, Iowa
Degree: (’18 forestry)
Title and Company: Forester, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
The first steer of the Beef Up Iowa program arrived at the Iowa State University Meats Laboratory on Wednesday, July 8, 2020. The program, part of Gov.
Harold Crawford, 95, retired Iowa State University agricultural education and studies professor, died May 27, 2020.
Katherine Johnson
Hometown: Mendota Heights, Minnesota
Job title and company: Research Technologist at Mayo Clinic
Zoetis, one of the nation’s top animal health companies, announced in April it had acquired the Ames-based startup Performance Livestock Analytics.
Iowa Ag Roots Spur Innovation
In a typical year, Kittleson Brothers sells around five tons of potatoes per week to grocery stores in northern Iowa and southern Minnesota.
Jeff Rowe (’95 agricultural business), president global seeds for Syngenta, earned the 2018 Agricultural Business Club’s Outstanding Alumni Award.
Greta (McGregor) Pennell takes the science of play seriously. But, not too seriously to dress up as an elf in the name of science.
