Special Collections Department
403 Parks Library
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011-2140

RS 9/2/10
Iowa State University

Iowa Agricultural and Home Economics Experiment Station

Research and Demonstration Farms
Records, 1931-[ongoing]


Descriptive summary

creator:

Iowa State University. Iowa Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station. Research and Demonstration Farms

title:

Records

dates:

1931-[ongoing]

extent:

15.98 linear feet (19 document boxes, 8 oversize boxes, and 2 map case folders)

collection number:

RS 9/2/10

repository:

University Archives, Special Collections Department, Iowa State University.

 

Administrative information

access:

Open for research

publication rights:

Consult Head, Special Collections Department

preferred citation:

Iowa State University, Iowa Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station, Research and Demonstration Farms Records, RS 9/2/10, Special Collections Department, Iowa State University Library.

 

Historical note

Iowa State University's Research and Demonstration Farms are administered by the Iowa Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station of the ISU College of Agriculture. The farms are located across the state in order to engage in specific regional research needs. Most of the research farms are leased by the Experiment Station from local nonprofit associations of farmers and business people. The other farms are owned by the state and ISU affiliate organizations.

The Experiment Station works closely with area farmers to address local research needs. Area producers make up the membership of local advisory committees, which meet with county area extension staff and ISU researchers to suggest problems that need to be studied. The committee members also act as liaisons between the university and other producers.

Research performed at the farms is published by the Experiment Station in annual reports. Farmers are able to view experiments in person during field and demonstration days hosted by the farms.

 

Collection description

This collection (1931-[ongoing]) contains material documenting the activities of Iowa State University’s Research and Demonstration Farms. The records include annual reports, newspaper clippings, informational publications, and photo scrapbooks. The contents of the photo scrapbooks are of specific interest as they document farming practices being researched in the 1930s. The scrapbooks contain photos of gully and erosion control practices, crops, scientific equipment, and machinery operations for harvesting, seeding, terracing, and tillage. Experiments conducted by the Northwest Iowa Research Center at the Moody Experimental Farm near Doon and the Galva-Primghar Experimental Farm near Sutherland are well documented. Additional annual progress reports for the various research centers are also available in the University Archives (archives call no. S61 M331111 - S61 W47112x).

 

Organization

The collection is listed alphabetically.

 

Container list

Box

Folder

Title

Dates

1

1

News clippings

1947-2010

3

18

News clippings

2011-2012

14

4

News releases

1974, undated

6

6

News releases: agricultural engineering

undated

1

2

Annual progress reports: Northeast Research Farm

1991-1993

2

1-3

Annual progress reports: Northern Research Farm

1955-1989

16

1-2

Annual progress reports: Northwest Iowa research farms

1956-1974

16

3-5

Annual progress reports: Northwest Iowa research farms

1961-1981

3

21

Annual report: Western Iowa Experimental Farm

1948

19

1

Field notebook: Galva-Primghar Experimental Farm

1960

19

2

Field notebook: Galva-Primghar Experimental Farm

1961

19

3

Field notebook: daily assignment notebook

1962-1965

19

4

Field notebook: daily assignment notebook

1965-1966

 

 

Field notebook: Galva-Primghar Experimental Farm

1977

3

22

Fiscal report for outlying farms

1954

9

9

Galva-Primghar Farm and Moody Farm: long term averages

1956-1997

13

7

Galva-Primghar Farm and Moody Farm: soil moisture data

1956-1985

10

6

Galva-Primghar Farm and Moody Farm: soil records and maps

1976-1977, undated

9

1

Galva-Primghar Farm: annual reports

1949-1952

9

2

Galva-Primghar Farm: corn hybrids areas

1969-1984

9

3

Galva-Primghar Farm: crop history and planting maps

1952-1976

9

4

Galva-Primghar Farm: delayed planting of soybeans

1973-1982

6

12-13

Galva-Primghar Farm: farm reports

1961

9

7

Galva-Primghar Farm: fertility requirements for oats

1962-1978

6

14

Galva-Primghar Farm: fertility requirements of continuous corn

1972-1987

7

1

Galva-Primghar Farm: field notes

1979

7

2

Galva-Primghar Farm: field notes

1980

7

3

Galva-Primghar Farm: field notes

1981

7

4

Galva-Primghar Farm: field notes

1982

17

8

Galva-Primghar Farm: field notes

1983

17

9

Galva-Primghar Farm: field notes

1984

18

1

Galva-Primghar Farm: field notes

1985

18

2

Galva-Primghar Farm: field notes

1986

7

5

Galva-Primghar Farm: field notes

1990

9

8

Galva-Primghar Farm: heavy fertility

1961-1985

7

6

Galva-Primghar Farm: herbicides

1970-1987

7

7

Galva-Primghar Farm: hybrid population research

1977-1985

8

9-10

Galva-Primghar Farm: legume N vs. commercial N research

1957-1987

7

8

Galva-Primghar Farm: nitrogen use study

1975-1984

9

10

Galva-Primghar Farm: nitrogen-phosphate fertilizer experiment yearly records (1 of 4)

1959-1986

10

1

Galva-Primghar Farm: nitrogen-phosphate fertilizer experiment yearly records (2 of 4)

1959-1986

10

2

Galva-Primghar Farm: nitrogen-phosphate fertilizer experiment yearly records (3 of 4)

1959-1986

10

3

Galva-Primghar Farm: nitrogen-phosphate fertilizer experiment yearly records (4 of 4)

1959-1986

7

9

Galva-Primghar Farm: rainfall records

1957-1965

9

5-6

Galva-Primghar Farm: research notes

1959-1985

6

10

Galva-Primghar Farm: research notes

1988

8

6

Galva-Primghar Farm: research notes

1989

6

11

Galva-Primghar Farm: research notes

1989-1990

8

7

Galva-Primghar Farm: research notes

1990

7

10

Galva-Primghar Farm: rotations (1 of 4)

1960-1988

7

11

Galva-Primghar Farm: rotations (2 of 4)

1960-1988

8

1

Galva-Primghar Farm: rotations (3 of 4)

1960-1988

8

2

Galva-Primghar Farm: rotations (4 of 4)

1960-1988

10

4

Galva-Primghar Farm: row spacing

1965-1983

8

3

Galva-Primghar Farm: soybean time of planting

1968-1970

10

5

Galva-Primghar Farm: tillage demonstration

1975-1987

8

4-5

Galva-Primghar Farm: time of planting research

1961-1976

8

8

Galva-Primghar Farm: zinc and sulfur experiments

1978-1985

23

6

Galva-Primghar Farm: field notes on super phosphate experiment

1957-1984

24

1-2

Galva-Primghar Farm: field notes on crop rotation fertility experiment

1957-1984

24

3

Galva-Primghar Farm: field notes on long-term continuous oats experiment

1963-1977

24

4

Galva-Primghar Farm: field notes on long-term continuous corn experiment

1963-1984

24

5

Galva-Primghar Farm: field notes on zinc-sulfur experiment and weather data

1957-1984

25

1

Galva-Primghar Farm: field notes on legume nitrogen versus commercial experiment

1957-1984

25

2-3

Galva-Primghar Farm: field notes on nitrogen-phosphorus fertilizer experiment

1957-1984

25

4

Galva-Primghar Farm: field notes on insecticide, plant diseases, and herbicide experiments

1963-1983

25

5

Galva-Primghar Farm: field notes on rate of lime studies

1967-1984

26

1

Galva-Primghar Farm: field notes on tillage studies

1961-1984

26

4

Galva-Primghar Farm: field notes

1964-1984

26

5

Galva-Primghar Farm: field notes and weather data

1985

27

1

Galva-Primghar Farm: field notes and weather data

1986

27

2

Galva-Primghar Farm: field notes and weather data

1987

18

6

Howard County Experimental Farm: experiment plot locations

1955-1966

18

7

Howard County Experimental Farm: soil sample tests

1945-1953

Map

Case

Maps, Soil and Topographical: Northwest Research Farm, Galva-Primghar

undated

Map

Case

Maps, Soil: Grundy-Shelby Experimental Farm, Ringgold County

1949, undated

Map

Case

Maps, Soil: Seymour-Shelby Farm, Wayne County

1950

Map

Case

Maps, Topographical: Northwest Research Farm, Moody Farm, Doon, Iowa

1955

Map

Case

Maps, Topographical: Treynor Farm, Pottawattamie County

1965

6

4

Moody Farm: experiment notes

1989-1991

6

3

Moody Farm: experiment notes

1990

10

11

Moody Farm: field notes

1956

11

2

Moody Farm: field notes

1956-1960

11

1

Moody Farm: field notes

1957-1958

11

3

Moody Farm: field notes

1957-1960

11

5

Moody Farm: field notes

1960-1961

12

1

Moody Farm: field notes

1961-1967

11

4

Moody Farm: field notes

1962-1963

11

6

Moody Farm: field notes

1964-1965

11

7

Moody Farm: field notes

1966-1967

11

8

Moody Farm: field notes

1968-1969

12

2

Moody Farm: field notes

1970-1971

12

3

Moody Farm: field notes

1972-1974

12

4

Moody Farm: field notes

1974-1975

12

7

Moody Farm: field notes

1974-1981

12

5

Moody Farm: field notes

1976-1977

12

6

Moody Farm: field notes

1978-1979

13

1

Moody Farm: field notes

1980-1981

13

2

Moody Farm: field notes

1982-1983

13

6

Moody Farm: field notes

1982-1988

13

3

Moody Farm: field notes

1984-1985

13

4

Moody Farm: field notes

1986-1987

13

5

Moody Farm: field notes

1988-1989

14

1-3

Moody Farm: nitrogen-phosphate fertilizer research

1956-1990

10

10

Moody Farm: research notes

1974-1991

6

5

Moody Farm: zinc-sulfur experiment

1989-1990

20

1

Moody Farm: field notes on pre-emergence herbicides for corn and soybeans

1960-1989

20

2

Moody Farm: field notes on chiseling trials for corn and soybeans

1975-1985

20

3

Moody Farm: field notes on nitrogen rates on continuous corn experiments

1974-1989

20

4

Moody Farm: field notes on moisture legume experiment

1957-1986

20

5

Moody Farm: field notes on time and rate of phosphorus experiment

1956-1989

21

1

Moody Farm: field notes on rate of lime experiment

1966-1989

21

2

Moody Farm: field notes on watershed experiment

1957-1989

21

3

Moody Farm: field notes on zinc-sulfur experiment

1966-1989

21

4-5

Moody Farm: field notes on nitrogen-phosphate fertility experiment

1956-1989

22

1-2

Moody Farm: field notes on rate of planting experiment

1956-1989

22

3

Moody Farm: field notes on nitrogen use, population, and planting date studies

1962-1984

22

4

Moody Farm: field notes on row spacing and short term experiments

1961-1983

23

1

Moody Farm: field notes on soybean fungicide trials, reduced herbicide input, and nitrogen placement experiments and weather data

1956-1989

23

2

Moody Farm: field notes on tillage experiment

1956-1989

23

3

Moody Farm: field notes on placement of P2O5 on listed corn and corn versus sorghum experiments

1960-1986

23

4

Moody Farm: field notes on popup versus starter and no starter, switch grass versus brome grass, row spacing of corn and soybeans, and anhydrous versus dry experiments

1967-1978

23

5

Moody Farm: field notes on ladino clover, insecticides on corn, listed soybeans for observation, drilled corn versus power checker, effect of starter on listed corn, Duncan's calendarizations, and flame cultivation experiments

1958-1973

26

3

Moody Farm: field notes

1989

17

7

Northwest Iowa Research Center: soil and grain tests

1982-1985

26

2

Photographs: aerial images of research farms (10 color)

1990-2000

4

10

Photographs: aerial images of research farms (19 color)

1991

Map

Case

Photographs: aerial images of research farms (22 b/w)

undated

18

10

Photographs: agricultural research (23 b/w, 3 color)

1985-1990, undated

18

11

Photographs: agricultural research at Northeast Research Farm, Nashua (38 color)

1998 circa

4

5

Photographs: computer equipment (8 b/w)

undated

4

7

Photographs: farm equipment and land

1975

4

1

Photographs: farm equipment, land, and group activities (13 b/w photos)

undated

4

3

Photographs: farm scenes (34 b/w)

undated

4

4

Photographs: meeting (8 color and 1 b/w)

undated

14

5-6

Plans and summaries of long-term soil fertility experiments, project 1148

1949-1965

15

1-2

Plans and summaries of long-term soil fertility experiments, project 1148

1950-1965

18

8-9

Plans and summaries of long-term soil fertility experiments, project 1148

1963-1965, undated

15

3

Planter calibrations

1979-1993

Map

Case

Poster: Grundy-Shelby Experiment Farm Land Sale

1988

5

5

Powerpoint slides

undated

1

3

Publications and brochures

1975-2011, undated

3

19

Publications: Borlaug Learning Center Northeast Research and Demonstration Farm booklet

2009

15

4-6

Purchase order vouchers

1960

15

8

Report on new crops

1962

15

7

Report: general conditions of soybeans in Iowa

1967

15

9

Report: variety test of sudan grasses and sorghum x sudan grass hybrids

undated

3

20

Reports: Northwest Iowa on-farm research

2007-2009

2

4

Research data: Clarion-Webster Research Center experiments on soil fertility, continuous corn, and continuous oats

1964-1986

2

7

Research data: Galva-Primghar Research Center experiments on long-term continuous corn

1963-1979

2

5-6

Research data: Galva-Primghar Research Center experiments on soil fertility, continuous corn, and continuous oats

1964-1986

3

1

Research data: Shelby-Grundy Research Center experiments on soil fertility and continuous corn

1964-1984

16

6

Research farms: field notes

1988-1991, undated

18

4

Research notes

undated

3

2-7

Research notes: Berkey Farm experiments

1979-1984

3

8

Research notes: Bruner Farm, Ames, experiments on corn fertilization

1980 circa

3

9-15

Research notes: Bruner Farm, Ames, experiments on soil fertility strips

1982-1984

3

16

Research notes: Bruner Farm, Ames, experiments on soybean fertilization

1982

17

6

Research notes: corn yield studies

1950-1963

6

8

Research notes: experiment plans

1956-1987, undated

6

7

Research notes: field notes and data

1990-1991

6

9

Research notes: field observations

1970-1989

10

9

Research notes: insect and weed control

1961-1989

10

7-8

Research notes: insecticide evaluation

1981-1985, undated

3

17

Research notes: Kanawha Farm calcium experiments

1981

16

7

Research notes: rock phosphate vs. super phosphate: records and statistical analysis (1 of 3)

1957-1985

17

1

Research notes: rock phosphate vs. super phosphate: records and statistical analysis (2 of 3)

1957-1985

17

2

Research notes: rock phosphate vs. super phosphate: records and statistical analysis (3 of 3)

1957-1985

17

5

Research notes: soil data

1958-1960, undated

18

3

Research notes: soil tillage and compaction reports

undated

18

5

Research notes: weather and climate data

1974-1978

6

1

Research project: continuous soybeans

1979-1980

6

2

Research project: demonstration garden

1977-1988

1

4

Scrapbook: erosion control and gullies (1 of 3) (24 5x7 b/w photos)

1932-1940

1

5

Scrapbook: erosion control and gullies (2 of 3) (42 5x7 b/w photos)

1932-1940

1

6

Scrapbook: erosion control and gullies (3 of 3) (11 5x7 b/w photos)

1932-1940

1

7

Scrapbook: scientific instruments and machinery operation (1 of 3) (32 3x5 b/w photos)

1931-1940

1

8

Scrapbook: scientific instruments and machinery operation (2 of 3) (31 5x7 b/w photos)

1931-1940

1

9

Scrapbook: scientific instruments and machinery operation (3 of 3) (19 5x7 b/w photos)

1931-1940

4

6

Slides: Mohaska and Powshiek County farm (160 slides)

1974, undated

17

3

Slides: Northwest Iowa Research Center (57 slides)

1983-1984, undated

17

4

Slides: Northwest Iowa Research Center (64 slides)

undated

5

4

Slides: Poweshiek and Crawford County farms (175 slides)

1974-1976, undated

5

1

Slides: Poweshiek and Crawford County Farms (200 slides)

1974-1978

4

9

Slides: Poweshiek County and activities on the farm (200 slides)

1974-1976, undated

5

2

Slides: Poweshiek County farm (240 slides)

1974-1976

4

8

Slides: research farms (140 slides)

1974-1976

5

3

Slides: Taylor and Poweshiek County farms (200 slides)

1974, undated

4

2

Slides: unidentified research farm scenes (100 slides)

undated

5

6-7

Soil Conservation Service Experiment Station, Clarinda, Iowa: terrace-outs, watersheds, rotation plots (55 b/w photographs)

1931-1940, undated