A study of one Iowa watershed by USDA and Iowa State University economists points up the need for examining alternative methods for watershed management in controlling soil erosion and damage-producing runoff.

They're moving closer to big cities. Metropolitan complexes contain about one-third of Iowa's population and together account for all of of Iowa's 1950 to 1960 population growth.

Brief reports on research at your experiment station at Iowa State University: This month: Control of corn borers, nutrition research with baby pigs and fed cattle, improving waterfowl habitat, comparison of beef from different breeds.

Farming in the United States reached a turning point about 50 years ago. Up to that time, increasing amounts of labor and land had been used to produce most of the incease in farm output.