by Communications Team | Aug 24, 2026 | Diverse Corn Belt Project
Shown here is the conceptual framework for processing cadastral, orthophoto, and remotely sensed imagery for Eden Township in Winnebago County, Iowa. The process takes eight cadastral photos from 1939 through 1976 from multiple historical sources, 1 photo from a 1980s...
by Communications Team | Apr 28, 2026 | Diverse Corn Belt Project
A new policy brief on agricultural diversification is now available from the Diverse Corn Belt Project (DCB) and the Council for Agricultural Sciences and Technology (CAST). The policy brief outlines four priority areas that emerged through DCB’s research: Federal...
by Communications Team | Feb 12, 2026 | Diverse Corn Belt Project
This story is the first in a series of diversification case studies showcasing how people in Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana are diversifying their farms, markets, and landscapes. Diverse crop rotations, livestock and careful financial management have allowed Tim Sieren...
by Communications Team | Feb 4, 2026 | Diverse Corn Belt Project
For Diverse Corn Belt participants and partners, the process of futuring has provided a fascinating and instructive picture of what’s possible in the rural landscape. Futuring aims to discover many possible outcomes for a particular business or market based on the...
by Communications Team | Nov 26, 2025 | Diverse Corn Belt Project
A picture can paint a thousand words. And in the emerging science of text-to-image generative artificial intelligence, the Diverse Corn Belt Project’s (DCB) Reimagining Agricultural Diversity (RAD) Teams are using this technology to turn rural landscape words and...
by Communications Team | Oct 28, 2025 | Diverse Corn Belt Project
If you ask 100 farmers why they raise corn and soybeans, you will receive 100 different answers. “There isn’t a single motivation that’s driving everybody,” DCB Team member Michael Tiboris says. “It’s really easy to look at the landscape, the homogeneity in the...
