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Dietary strategies to reduce air emissions from laying hen operations	Analysis of the influence of soil temperature and soil surface conditions on soil moisture estimation using the Theta Probe

Vegetative filter strip assessment in the state of Iowa	Developing a quality control program for an NIRS-based service and research laboratory

Soil landscape modeling in the Northwest Iowa Plains region of O'Brien County, Iowa	Hydrological modification of subsurface drainage systems

Comparison of soy-flour hydrolysates for wood adhesive systems	Developing virtual watersheds for evaluating the dynamics of land use change

Investigation of roll angle feed-forward control and look-ahead functions to improve automatic guidance on sloped terrain	Species and functional diversity effects on productivity and nutrient uptake: Implications for designing sustainable agricultural systems in the Midwest

Using ozone to control fungi in high moisture corn	The effects of a safety climate on safety decision-making

Concentration and extraction of phosphorus from swine manure slurries as struvite	Application of the rollermill and hammermill for biomass fractionation

Improvement of mechanical properties and water stability of vegetable protein based plastics	Analysis of a DDGS Air-Drying System with heat recovery

Swine wastewater treatment by the static granular bed reactor	Nutrient recycling in biofuel production systems: Biomass ash pelleting, ethanol co-product allocation, and a beef-ethanol production system analysis

Monitoring vegetative treatment system performance for open beef feedlot runoff control	Force and moment analysis of stacked counter rotating eccentric mass tree shaker energy-wheel system

Development and modeling of a slope insensitive combine cleaning shoe	Development and evaluation of a single pass, dual stream corn stover harvester

Modeling the performance of runoff control systems on open beef feedlots in Iowa	Development of a high-throughput fermentation assay using colorimetric measurement of gas production

Enhancing biodiesel production from soybean oil using ultrasonics	Investigation of management strategies for the production of sweet sorghum as a bioenergy crop and preservation of crop residue by the ensiling process

High throughput fermentation monitoring via bubble detection	Monitoring Bear Creek nitrate-N flux and quantifying the impacts of concentrated flow on grass filters and riparian forest buffers

Evaluation of ultrasonic pretreatment on anaerobic digestion of biomass for methane production	Assessing new methods of integrated pest management for apple orchards in the midwest and phenology of sooty blotch and flyspeck fungi on apples in Iowa

Particle size characterization of ultrasonic treatment of dry milling coproducts for enhanced biofuel production	Aqueous ammonia soaking (AAS) as a biomass pretreatment method: Pilot-scale study with switchgrass, bench-scale use with poplar, and methane potential from anaerobic digestion of pretreated switchgrass

Maize to milk: An analysis of the traceability systems of bulk commodities	Extension of electrical engineering to bioengineering topics: Magnetic fermentation and microfluidic nematode assays

Non-chemical on-farm hermetic maize storage in East Africa	Effect of low initial envelope material moisture content on swine tissue degradation in layered livestock mortality composting systems

Techno-economic analysis of single-pass maize biomass harvest systems	Evaluating the cost and performance of vegetative treatment systems on open beef feedlots in the midwestern United States

Measurement of soil-tire interface stresses	Ammonia emissions, feeding and defecation dynamics of W36 pullets and laying hens as affected by stocking density and manure accumulation time

Hydrogen sulfide spatial distribution and exposure in deep-pit swine housing	Corn cob dry matter loss in storage as affected by temperature and moisture content

Occurrence of tylosin-resistant enterococci in swine manure and tile drainage systems under no-till management	Properties and bulk drying of biomass

An automated nozzle controller for self-propelled sprayers	Characterization of the impact of process variables on the densification of corn stover

Evaluation and application of a dynamic emissions chamber for quantifying gaseous emissions from laying hen manure	Assimilating in situ soil moisture measurements into the DSSAT-CSM using a Kalman filter

Identifiability analysis of a tractor and single axle towed implement model	Storability of modified wet distillers grains with solubles

Analyses of bioenergy systems: Detecting hard-coding errors in spreadsheets, and comparing biofuel cropping systems	Single-pass corn stover harvest system productivity and cost analysis

Development of an automated mechanical intra-row weeder for vegetable crops	Method to partition between freely suspended Escherichia coli and Escherichia coli attached to clay particles

Using topographic and soils data to understand and predict field scale soil moisture patterns	Grain wagon fill detection using ultrasonic sensors

Mitigation of ammonia gas from animal house using microalgae	Applicability of MIKE SHE to simulate hydrology in heavily tile drained agricultural land and effects of drainage characteristics on hydrology

Occurrence and movement of total and tylosin-resistant enterococci, erm genes and tylosin in tile-drained agricultural fields receiving swine manure application	Use of precision agriculture technologies in studying the relationships among soil pH, calcium carbonate equivalent, soybean cyst nematode population density, and soybean yield

13C metabolic flux analysis of soybean central carbon metabolism: Response to temperature and genotype effects	Application of SWAT model in predicting water quantity and quality for U.S. and Thailand watersheds

Modeling phosphorus transport using the WEPP model	Land management database development: Methods for delineating management units and estimating crop and residue cover

Vegetative filter strip buffer effects on runoff, sediment, and nutrient losses from a grazing and windrow composting site	Remote characterization of locomotion, grazing and drinking behavior in beef cattle using GPS and ruminant temperature dynamics

A systematic evaluation of laying hen housing for improved hen welfare	Predicting loads on ground engaging tillage tools using computational fluid dynamics

Cellulosic ethanol production via aqueous ammonia soaking pretreatment and simultaneous saccharification and fermentation	Purification and characterization of recombinant collagens/gelatins from transgenic corn seeds

Identification, evaluation and quantification of VOCs as biosecure markers of swine carcass degradation	Development of digital elevation models (DEMs) for agricultural applications

Mitigating odors from animal facilities using biofilters	Sorption, degradation, and transport of sulfamethazine in soils and manure-amended soils

Research in biomass production and utilization: Systems simulation and analysis	Development and initial validation of a dairy biological risk management assessment tool

Fluorescence in situ hybridization-based detection of Salmonella spp. and Listeria monocytogenes in complex food matrices	Energy and nutrient cycling in pig production systems

Optimal field coverage path planning on 2D and 3D surfaces	Modeling, identification and analysis of tractor and single axle towed implement system

Development of a system for characterizing biomass quality of lignocellulosic feedstocks for biochemical conversion	Monitoring and modeling of subsurface drainage and nitrate leaching under various land covers

Micro-aeration for hydrogen sulfide removal from biogas	Soil erosion prediction for shaping conservation policy and practice

Operational techniques for implementing traceability in bulk product supply chains	Computational intelligence and transient thermal analysis methods for exploratory analysis of source air quality

Measurement and analysis of the relationship between employee perceptions and safety and quality decision-making in the country grain elevator	Estimation of change in soil water nitrate-nitrogen concentration using impedance spectra

Design and performance of denitrification bioreactors for agricultural drainage	Impact of liquid swine manure on nutrient loss and bacteria transport to subsurface drainage water under corn-soybean rotations

Investigation of torrefaction process parameters and characterization of torrefied biomass	Reducing losses to maize stored on farms in East Africa using hermetic storage

Evaluating solids, phosphorus, and nitrogen cycling and transport in vegetative treatment systems used for runoff control on beef feedlots	Environmental and energy assessment of an aviary laying-hen housing system in the Midwestern United States

Pretreatment and fractionation of lignocellulosic biomass for production of biofuel and value-added products