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ISU team wins soil judging contest

A team of Iowa State (ISU) University students won the 2011 American Society of Agribusiness Region 5 Collegiate Soil Judging Contest in Pierre, South Dakota in September. Eight Midwest universities and 61 students competed in the contest.

The team will travel to the national competition for the sixth consecutive year this spring. An Iowa State team has won the regional contest three of the last four years.

The 2011 team also was first place in the group section of the contest. Four members of the team scored in the top ten in the individual contest: Ben Butcher of Palmer, IA, Tyler Reimers from Denison, Scott Shannon of Irwin, and Matt Riessen of Schleswig.  

The contest consisted of teams preparing detailed descriptions of soil horizons or layers, classifying soils according to U.S. soil taxonomy, determining geological characteristics of the site, making topographic and hydrologic measurements and interpreting soil properties for agriculture and urban land use.

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