September 24, 2018
Iowa State’s student-run Ag 450 farm is celebrating its 75 years.
The farm started 75 years ago when William Murray, professor of economics, was convinced that students at Iowa State needed experience managing a farm to prepare them for farming and other agriculture-related careers.
What started out as an 187-acre operation with pigs, cows, chickens and mules to pull machinery, is now a 900-acre farm that manages about 4,000 hogs per year, said Robert Frutchey, who is the instructor in charge of the course.