Richard Cruse is a professor in the
Agronomy Department at Iowa
State University. His research program involves field and
laboratory research in: 1) Soil and Crop Management; 2) applied
Soil Physics; and 3) Soil Fertility.Objectives include evaluating
the effect of tillage and cropping systems on: 1) soil physical
properties; 2) soil and water conservation; and 3) crop growth
and yield.
Examples or recent and
current research projects within this program and colleagues
cooperating in these activities include:
- Determining the effect of tillage
systems on optimum planting date for corn and soybeans and
evaluating these effects on corn and soybean yield –
Mario
Perez-Bidegain
- Estimations of water runoff and soil
erosion losses for each day and for each township in Iowa
– Several cooperators across campus, University of Iowa,
The National Soil Tilth Laboratory, and The National Soil
Erosion Laboratory.
- Estimating crop biomass removal (for
energy production) effects on soil organic matter content
– Krisztina
Eleki
- Determining tractor tire design impacts
on corn yield – Brian
Gelder
- Designing and developing a water runoff
and soil erosion collection system for small plots and natural
rainfall events – Hillary
Owen
His teaching program
focuses on soil management. Classes are taught at the graduate
level on campus and in the Masters of Science in Agronomy distance
education program. Additionally, since 2000 a soil and water
conservation class has been annually taught in Hungary for undergraduate
students.
Webmaster: Krisztina
Eleki (keleki@iastate.edu)
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