Staff at the Iowa State University Northeast Research and Demonstration Farm are trying to rouse up more attention and input from regional producers.
ISU Extension staff and Northeast Iowa Agricultural Experimental Association officers reminded members at a recent annual meeting about the importance of their input for upcoming seasonal activities at the research farm, which is also home to the Borlaug Learning Center outside of Nashua in Chickasaw County, Iowa.
“We are the best-kept secret in northeast Iowa,” Tim Burrack, president of the NIAEA, said to about 50 members filling a classroom on the farm. “We need to remind people this research farm is here for them.”
The farm will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2026.
The NIAEA owns the 260-acre research and demonstration farm. Iowa State and the association partnered to open the Borlaug Learning Center in 2009.
The center includes Extension and research farm offices, rural development office space and meeting rooms.
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