Iowa Senate Approves $21M Computer System Upgrade
After Gov. Kim Reynolds was blocked for trying to use CARES Act funds for the new ERP system, senate lawmakers voted in favor of the overhaul through the project’s original vendor, Workday. by Erin Jordan, The Gazette / February 10, 2021 Shutterstock/Michael Vi
(TNS) The Iowa Senate on Tuesday approved a bill to spend $21 million from the general fund on a new computer system.
Gov. Kim Reynolds in July tried to use coronavirus relief money for the Workday system, but the U.S. Treasury Department and the state auditor told her it wasn t allowed because the system wasn t necessitated by COVID-19 and was in the works before the pandemic.
Jan 14, 2021
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Corn field in Black Hawk County, Iowa.
Iowa State University agronomy professor Matthew Liebman has been experimenting with crop rotation as a means of reducing waterway-polluting fertilizer usage, according to a recent article in National Geographic.
Liebman used a three- and four-crop rotation – consisting mostly of corn, soy, oats, and alfalfa – across 22 acres. The study concluded that crop rotation not only reduced nitrogen levels – a byproduct of fertilizers that pollute waterways – but also produced higher corn yields. These pollutants contribute to contamination in the Mississippi River which has lead to a virtual organic “dead zone” where the river empties into the Gulf of Mexico.