Photo credit: Iowa State University Extension and Outreach

With most of western Iowa experiencing some form of drought, specialists with Iowa State University Extension and Outreach are partnering with the Iowa Department of Agriculture and USDA to offer a series of drought webinars.

Organizers say the webinars

will focus on development of drought in western Iowa, the expectation for

continued hot and dry weather, and impacts on row crops and forages. They say attendees

will be able to better manage livestock and drought-stressed forages, prepare

for use of alternative forages, understand important crop insurance and

marketing decisions, and plan for harvest of a drought-stressed crop.

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