Welcome to the Iowa Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station Website!
The Iowa Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station (IAHEES) conducts research programs that support Iowa's agricultural, natural resources and family and consumer programs at Iowa State University, Iowa's land-grant college. The IAHEES was established March 2, 1888, and links with other land-grant university research programs across the nation in a vital research chain. The system began with enactment of the Morrill Act in 1862. Iowa was the first state to accept the provisions of the Morrill Land-Grant Act, receiving 204,000 acres of land scrip. By careful handling of the lease and sale of that land, Iowa eventually received more than $800,000 in endowment, far in excess of early estimates, and more than many other states who handled their grants less prudently.
Passage of the Hatch Act in 1887, charging land-grant colleges to establish a research organization to advance science to solve problems for the food, agricultural and natural resource systems, created an experimental farm. The Iowa Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station cooperates with all other agricultural research stations to ensure attention to critical problems, to share research results and to avoid duplication. It supports the teaching and extension functions of Iowa State University.
Programs and activities of the Iowa Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station are carried out by about 30 departments across the Iowa State University campus. At any given time, around 340 Station projects are active, with an approximate annual budget of $69 million. These are funded by federally administered funds and state appropriations, as well as grant monies and product sales.
Scientists work in campus laboratories, at 12 outlying research farms and in the fields and business places of cooperators throughout the state. Work of the station is organized into two dimensions -- academic departments and research centers. The research centers focus on problems that require an interdisciplinary research effort. Although IAHEES projects relate primarily to the College of Agriculture, research is also supported in the College of Engineering, the College of Family and Consumer Sciences, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the College of Veterinary Medicine. Cooperation between researchers within and between departments and Colleges at all levels of activity is encouraged. This includes the formulation, planning and conducting of the research.
This Iowa Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station Website is designed to assist Iowa State University faculty in developing, coordinating and securing support for research programs. It is intended that the information here will be as current as we can make it. If there is something you feel would be helpful, let us know. Our goal is to make this site work for you.
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