作物利用研究中心成立于1984年，致力于通过开发先进技术和高价值产品来提高玉米，大豆和其他作物的利用率，并创建新的农业企业。该中心是爱荷华州立大学农业与生命科学学院的多学科研究、开发和技术转让计划。
CCUR探索农业材料的新食品，饲料和非食品工业用途，并专注于旨在扩大中西部作物利用率的面向问题的研究。CCUR通过使用最先进的设施和设备以及员工专业知识，为行业客户提供具有成本效益的研究解决方案。客户可以在不中断自己的全面生产系统的情况下测试新产品和流程，使公司能够开展新业务或扩展现有业务。
该中心的任务是确定，协调，促进。促进以任务为导向的跨学科研究（基础和应用），开发，技术转让和商业化活动，这些活动将增加和提高中西部作物的利用率，并在爱荷华州创建新的农业利用企业。目标则是开发新的健康食品和饲料产品，以及环境友好型加工技术，以提高农产品和产品的有效利用。用农业资源衍生产品取代石油衍生产品。向私营部门转让新的农业利用技术，并鼓励其成功商业化，以刺激经济发展。提供国内和跨国企业以及企业家所需的快速反应研究和服务，以及孵化设施，以开发新业务并发展现有业务。
CCUR专注于食品，饲料，生物燃料和生物基产品技术，以扩大对农业材料的需求。来自爱荷华州立大学五所不同学院的15个系的附属教师通过从农业资源中开拓各种新产品和开发新工艺赢得了国际声誉。
The Crop Utilization Research Center was established in 1984 to improve the utilization of corn, soybeans and other crops by developing advanced technologies and high-value products, and to create new agricultural enterprises. The center is a multidisciplinary research, development, and technology transfer program in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Iowa State University.
CCUR explores new food, feed, and non-food industrial uses of agricultural materials and focuses on problem-oriented research aimed at expanding crop utilization in the Midwest. CCUR provides cost-effective research solutions to industry clients through the use of state-of-the-art facilities and equipment, as well as staff expertise. Customers can test new products and processes without interrupting their own full-scale production systems, enabling companies to launch new business or expand existing ones.
The task of the center is to identify, coordinate, promote. Promote mission-oriented, interdisciplinary research (basic and applied), development, technology transfer, and commercialization activities that will increase and improve the utilization of Midwest crops and create new agricultural utilization enterprises in Iowa. The goal is to develop new healthy food and feed products, as well as environmentally friendly processing technologies, to improve the efficient use of agricultural products and products. Replace petroleum derivatives with agricultural resource derivatives. Transfer new agricultural use technologies to the private sector and encourage their successful commercialization to stimulate economic development. Provide rapid response research and services required by domestic and multinational businesses and entrepreneurs, as well as incubation facilities to develop new businesses and grow existing ones.
CCUR focuses on food, feed, biofuels and bio-based product technologies to expand the demand for agricultural materials. Affiliated faculty from 15 departments in five different colleges at Iowa State University have earned an international reputation for pioneering a variety of new products and developing new processes from agricultural resources.