A Century of Farming

Would you like to have your farm stay in the family for 100 years

Which Farm Lease For You?

Four main types of farm leases are used widely in Iowa. Here\u27s an outline of those types to help you choose the lease best fitted to your own situation

A guide for solving farm rental problems in Iowa

This bulletin provides suggestions for use by Iowa farm tenants and landlords when working out solutions to their farm rental problems. Some of these problems are: finding the right tenant and the right farm; choosing the most appropriate type of lease; sharing farm income and expense; selecting the most useful lease provisions; determining what the rent shall be; getting needed improvements; and drawing the lease so that it will accommodate new farming practices and so that it will comply with Iowa law. There are four main types of farm leases used in Iowa. They are (1) cash, (2) crop-share; (3) livestock-share and (4) labor-share. All four lease types are used in every county in the state. However, some areas show a strong preference for one type of lease over the others

Situation Report on Vocational-Technical Education

Rapid changes in technology have meant growing needs and opportunities for persons with technical training. Here\u27s a report on what different states are doing and the facilities available for vocational-technical education

Does Livestock-Share = Partnership

Iowa law doesn\u27t offer a definite answer. But there have been several court cases which furnish some clues to help determine whether a livestock-share lease adds up to a partnership or remains a simple tenancy

Getting Along Together on a Rented Farm

A good landlord and tenant are like a good pulling team. Each does his part. They pull together at the same time and in the same direction

Trends in the hog and pork trade in the United States

Recent attempts to control the production of hogs in the United States bring up many questions as to the nature of the hog enterprise and variations in the hogs marketed in different regions. This bulletin presents information on: (a) The differences in the weights of hogs marketed in different parts of the United States; (b) Certain trends which have developed in the location of the com, hog and packing enterprises; (c) Data regarding the shipment of slaughter hogs from central markets; and (d) the variation in pork requirements in different areas. A considerable portion of this information is rather common knowledge among packers and others in the hog trade but is not so commonly understood by producers of hogs

New Lease Rider

Putting a rider on that lease can help save your land from costly, wasteful erosion. It\u27s a simple one-page agreement designed to help Iowa tenants and landlords get together on a practical plan for keeping topsoil on the farm- where it belongs. It may also be used for other improvements

Quantitative modeling of \textit{in situ} x-ray reflectivity during organic molecule thin film growth

Synchrotron-based x-ray reflectivity is increasingly employed as an \textit{in situ} probe of surface morphology during thin film growth, but complete interpretation of the results requires modeling the growth process. Many models have been developed and employed for this purpose, yet no detailed, comparative studies of their scope and accuracy exists in the literature. Using experimental data obtained from hyperthermal deposition of pentane and diindenoperylene (DIP) on SiO$_2$, we compare and contrast three such models, both with each other and with detailed characterization of the surface morphology using ex-situ atomic force microscopy (AFM). These two systems each exhibit particular phenomena of broader interest: pentacene/SiO$_2$ exhibits a rapid transition from rough to smooth growth. DIP/SiO$_2$, under the conditions employed here, exhibits growth rate acceleration due to a different sticking probability between the substrate and film. In general, \textit{independent of which model is used}, we find good agreement between the surface morphology obtained from fits to the \insitu x-ray data with the actual morphology at early times. This agreement deteriorates at later time, once the root-mean squared (rms) film roughness exceeds about 1 ML. A second observation is that, because layer coverages are under-determined by the evolution of a single point on the reflectivity curve, we find that the best fits to reflectivity data --- corresponding to the lowest values of $\chi_\nu^2$ --- do not necessarily yield the best agreement between simulated and measured surface morphologies. Instead, it appears critical that the model reproduce all local extrema in the data. In addition to showing that layer morphologies can be extracted from a minimal set of data, the methodology established here provides a basis for improving models of multilayer growth by comparison to real systems.Comment: 34 pages (double-spaced, including figures and references), 10 figures, 3 appendice

How To Get Improvements On A Rented Farm

How to make improvements on rented farms is one of the most difficult problems face landlords and tenants. Some are working out their own solutions. But most of them are still looking for satisfactory ways and means for making improvements. About a third of the requests to the college for rental information concernt this problem