Soil Health and Sustainability
Speaker:
Ray Archuleta
01 Apr 2014
7:00 PM
Sun Room, Memorial Union
Ray Archuleta is a soil agronomist at USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service. His work promotes conservation practices like no-till farming and the use of cover crops to improve soil health. Archuleta has more than twenty-five years of experience with the Natural Resources Conservation Service, working in New Mexico, Missouri, Oregon, and now at the NRCS East National Technology Center in Greensboro, North Carolina. He has held positions as a soil conservationist, nutrient and irrigation specialist, water quality project manager and area agronomist. He also spent two years in Guatemala as a livestock specialist in the Peace Corps. Shivvers Memorial Lecture.
[i]Students from Ames High School will host a pop-up art show prior to the lecture at 6:30 pm.[/i]
The display features 11 poster-sized photo collages depicting what they have learned about Iowa's role in cultivating local sustainable food systems. The posters were created as part of the Lexicon of Sustainability project and were presented last fall in Washington DC.
[url=http://www.leopold.iastate.edu/news/leopold-letter/2013/winter/lexicon]Students share sustainability lessons on the road, [i]Leopold Letter[/i] Winter 2013[/url]