The week before Thanksgiving 30 individuals from the Agribusiness and Beef Science Clubs took a trip to St Louis, Lousiville, and Nashville. Following are some pictures from the trip.
Monday, November 30, 2015
Sunday, August 23, 2015
NICC to Build New Beef Education Facility
The number of beef science students at Northeast Iowa Community College has seen a dramatic increase in last 5 years with close to 30 students enrolled in the fall beef science class. In response to this demand NICC will be building a new Beef Education Facility. The facility is being built to the same high standards of the Dairy Facility keeping to the theme of a "Center of Excellence for Value Added Agriculture." With this new facility NICC will continue to be a leader in developing our next generation of agriculture leaders.
Wednesday, August 12, 2015
NICC Agriscience Program is adding Drones to their Curriculum
In order to keep up to date with latest technologies in agriculture we will be adding five Drones to our curriculum. Four of the drones will be small hobby drones that will be used to train students how to operate and fly a drone. The fifth drone will include GPS and a High Tech Camera and will be used for aerial observations and videos. NICC has applied for a section 333 exemption to allow them to fly the drone outside.
The drones will be available in mid September for practicing indoors. When the Section 333 exemption is approved we will be using the drone in an outdoor environment.
Friday, July 24, 2015
Winneshiek County Soil and Water Conservation District held a field
day at Northeast Iowa Community College. This past year the college has
made a decision to go to no-till and cover crops to help maintain long
term soil health and productivity.
Several demonstrations were part of the day including a Hagie cover crop seeder and the SWCD rain table.
Several demonstrations were part of the day including a Hagie cover crop seeder and the SWCD rain table.
Monday, June 22, 2015
Friday, May 22, 2015
Agriculture: Job growth to boom over next five years
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Nearly 58,000 jobs will
open annually across the United States in occupations involving food,
agriculture, renewable natural resources and environment over the next
five years, according to an employment outlook led by Purdue University.
The report, released Monday (May 11), was produced by Purdue University's College of Agriculture with grant support from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture.
The jobs reflect a need for a highly skilled and
trained workforce to support the food, agriculture and national
resources industries amid projections of a world population that is
expected to grow from 7 billion people today to 9 billion by 2050, noted
Sonny Ramaswamy, NIFA director.
That will create many opportunities for college graduates
in those fields, said Allan D. Goecker (pronounced GER’-ker), assistant
dean emeritus of Purdue's College of Agriculture and lead author of the
report "Employment
Opportunities for College Graduates in Food, Agriculture, Renewable
Natural Resources, and the Environment, United States, 2015–2020."
"These graduates are essential to address U.S.
and global priorities of food security, sustainable energy and
environmental quality," Goecker said.
The report projects that 46 percent of the
estimated 57,900 new job opportunities each year will be in management
and business. Twenty-seven percent will be in science, technology,
engineering and mathematics, the so-called STEM areas. Jobs in food and
biomaterials production will comprise 15 percent, and 12 percent of the
openings will be in education, communication and governmental services.
Details of the report are available on a website created by Purdue at https://www.purdue.edu/usda/employment. Some highlights:
* While most employers prefer to hire graduates
of food, agriculture, renewable natural resources and environment
programs, graduates from these programs only fill about 60 percent of
the expected annual openings. Even as enrollments in these programs
increase and the job market becomes somewhat more competitive, good
employment opportunities for the next five years are expected.
* Growth in job opportunities will be uneven.
Employers in some areas will struggle to find enough graduates to fill
jobs. In a few areas, employers will find an oversupply of job seekers.
* There should be a strong employment market for
e-commerce managers and marketing agents, ecosystem managers,
agriscience educators, crop advisers and pest control specialists.
* Job opportunities in STEM areas are expected to
grow, with the strongest markets for plant scientists, food scientists,
sustainable biomaterials specialists, water resources scientists and
engineers, precision agriculture specialists and veterinarians.
* Women make up more than half of the food,
agriculture, renewable natural resources and environment higher
education graduates in the U.S.
The report is the eighth in a series of five-year projections initiated by USDA in 1980.
Marcos Fernandez,
associate dean of Purdue Agriculture and director of its academic
programs, said this newest edition might be the most comprehensive of
all. He convened his counterparts from across the country during a joint
session of both land-grant and other colleges of agriculture directors
of academic programs during a meeting of the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities in Washington, D.C., to analyze and discuss the data.
"Academic and non-academic leaders from
throughout the country - over 70 in all - reviewed a draft of the report
and extensively discussed the findings, trends and recommendations with
one another and the report's authors," he said.
Writer: Keith Robinson, 765-494-2722, robins89@purdue.edu
Sources: Allan D. Goecker, 765-463-1269, goecker@purdue.edu
Marcos Fernandez, 765-494-8472, mfernandez@purdue.eduAg Communications: (765) 494-2722;
Keith Robinson, robins89@purdue.edu
Agriculture News Page
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Soil Sampling the High Tech Way
As part of the development of a Comprehensive Nutrient Management Plan for the NICC farm land we brought in Soil Investigating Services http://www.soilinvestigativeservices.com/ to update some of our soil sample zones. They use a machine from Ag Robotics http://www.agrobotics.com/ to automatically take up to 40 cores per sample.
It's also planting day. As part of an NRCS demonstration project the NICC farm is moving to complete No-till
It's also planting day. As part of an NRCS demonstration project the NICC farm is moving to complete No-till
Thursday, May 7, 2015
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
Monday, April 13, 2015
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
NICC Students Do Well at National
Congratulations to NICC students who attended the National Post-secondary Agriculture Students Conference in Boise Idaho the week of spring break. At the conference students had the opportunity to demonstrate their skills bringing home numerous awards.
Agricultural Machinery Service Technician Contest
2nd Place Team: Mitchell Czapiewski, Caleb Frank
5th Place Team: Luke Johnson, Jedidiah Byers
2nd Place Individual: Caleb Frank
College Bowl
3rd Place Team: Summer Johnson, Clare Cook, Justin Schaffe, Cody Opperman, Caleb Frank
Dairy Specialist Contest
3rd Place Team: Summer Johnson, Clare Cook, Justin Schaffer
5th Place Team: Chase Saxton, Brittany Nelson, Cody Freland
9th Place Team: Austin Vander Haak, Bryon Franks, Adriana Aldinger
2nd Place Individual: Summer Johnson
Overall Livestock Contest
5th Place Team: Cody Opperman, Joe Goedken
5th Place Individual: Cody Opperman
Thursday, February 12, 2015
The following teams qualified at the State Post-secondary Agriculture Students to advance to Nationals
College Bowl
Kayleigh Hauber Alex Jech Kaytlan Langreck Baxter Pufahl Colin Scholz
Dairy Specialist
Clare Cook Summer Johnson Justin Schaffer
Shelby Bodley Sam Schwartz Austin Vander Haak
Cody Freland Chase Saxton
Livestock Specialist - Overall
Kayleigh Hauber Kaytlan Langreck Cody Opperman
College Bowl
Kayleigh Hauber Alex Jech Kaytlan Langreck Baxter Pufahl Colin Scholz
Dairy Specialist
Clare Cook Summer Johnson Justin Schaffer
Shelby Bodley Sam Schwartz Austin Vander Haak
Cody Freland Chase Saxton
Livestock Specialist - Overall
Kayleigh Hauber Kaytlan Langreck Cody Opperman
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