Department of Agricultural Education & Studies

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Thomas A. Polito, Assistant Professor & Director Student Services, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Curtiss Room 23 Iowa State University Ames, Iowa 50011 Office: (515) 294-2766 FAX: (515) 294-2844 tpolito@iastate.edu

 

Ph.D. (1987) Assistant Professor of Ag Education & Studies and of Agronomy

Administrative Responsibilities:

Coordinate the College academic advising efforts and new student orientation programs; provide college level leadership in undergraduate student recruitment and retention activities, serve as academic advisor to 40-70 undeclared students; overall responsibility for all undergraduate student records, schedules and degree program monitoring for the College, and coordinate reporting college level student outcomes assessment program.

Teaching Responsibilities:

Research Responsibilities:

Fertilizer management in no-till corn and soybean production systems.

Selected Publications

Polito, T.A. and Samuel Buah. Fertilizer management for soybean in no tillage production systems. In Annual Progress Reports-1995. Northwest Iowa Research Farm.

Polito, T.A. Grain yield response of different corn hybrids to starter fertilizer in no-tillage environments. In Annual Progress Reports-1993. Northwest Iowa Research Farm

Polito, T.A. Fertilizer P management in no-till soybean production systems. In Annual Progress Reports-1992. Northwest Iowa Research Farm.

Polito, T.A. and R.D. Voss. 1991. Corn yield response to varied producer controlled factors and weather in high yield environments. J. Prod. Agric. 4:51-57.

Polito, T.A. and J.W. Schafer. 1990. Preparing students to deal with ambiguity -- A problem approach. p. 6. In Agronomy Abstracts. ASA, Madison, WI.