Andy VanLoocke

Associate Professor of Agronomy, Iowa State University

Recent Publications

• Advances in Miscanthus x giganteus Planting Techniques May Increase Carbon Uptake in the Establishment Year
• A Simple, Affordable, Do-It-Yourself Method for Measuring Soil Maximum Water Holding Capacity
• Field-Scale Analysis of Miscanthus Production Indicates Climate Change May Increase the Opportunity for Water Quality Improvement in a Key Iowa Watershed
• Agroecosystem Model Simulations Reveal Spatial Variability in Relative Productivity in Biomass Sorghum and Maize for Energy in Iowa, USA
• Photosynthetic Decline in Aging Perennial Grass is Not Fully Explained by Leaf Nitrogen
• Rapid Changes in Agricultural Land Use and Hydrology in the Driftless Region
• Planting Miscanthus Instead of Row Crops May Increase the Productivity and Economic Performance of Farmed Potholes
• Soil Net Nitrogen Mineralization and Leaching under Miscanthus x giganteus and Zea mays
• The Economic and Environmental Costs and Benefits of the Renewable Fuel Standard
• Water Quality Effects of Economically Viable Land Use Change in the Mississippi River Basin under the Renewable Fuel Standard
• The Impact of Stand Age and Fertilization on the Soil Microbiome of Miscanthus x giganteus
• Multi-year and Multi-site Establishment of the Perennial Biomass Crop Miscanthus × giganteus Using a Staggered Start Design to Elucidate N Response

Recent Datasets

• A Simple, Affordable, Do-It-Yourself Method for Measuring Soil Maximum Water Holding Capacity
• Agro-IBIS/THMB Modeled Yield, Nitrogen Loss, and Profitability Maps for the Raccoon River Basin, Iowa, USA
• Agroecosystem Model Simulations Reveal Spatial Variability in Relative Productivity in Biomass Sorghum and Maize in Iowa, USA
• Simulated Land Allocation, Nitrogen Use, and Nitrogen Loss in the Mississippi Atchafalaya River Basin for Various RFS2 (Renewable Fuel Standard) Policy Scenarios
• AgroIBIS VSF Farmed Pothole Ponding Model Runs
• The Economic and Environmental Costs and Benefits of the Renewable Fuel Standard
• Soil Bacterial Microbial Community Associated with Miscanthus giganteus Sequencing Data