Proceedings of the Leopold Center's Tenth Anniversary Conference, 1997

Sustainable Agriculture: Taking Stock, Moving Forward

Tenth Anniversary Conference
July 30-31, 1997
Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
 

Published by the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture. All items below were scanned from the original printed document and made available as PDFs.

Table of contents

• Images of the conference
• Featured speakers' presentations
  • Conservation as a Commodity - Paul Johnson
  • A Dolphin's Point of View: Gaining Support for a Sustainable Agriculture - Pat Boddy
  • The Leopold Tradition: Education by Experience - Wellington B. (Buddy) Huffaker
  • The Future of Iowa’s Water Quality Programs - George Hallberg
  • Planting the Future: Aldo Leopold and Henry A. Wallace on Agriculture’s Next Century
    • Comments by Curt Meine
    • Comments by John Hyde
    • Comments by David Williams
• Summaries of concurrent sessions  (a note about these documents)
  • Riparian management systems - Tom Isenhart, Joe Colletti, Jon Judson, and Jim and Jody Kerns
  • Biological controls/insect pest management - Tony Cortilet, Thomas Baker, Larry Pedigo and Mark Roose
  • Manure management for Iowa farmers - Jeff Lorimor, John Creswell and Jim Owen
  • Sustainable agriculture: Globalization, social change and social capital - Steve Padgitt, Paul Lasley, Jim Almquist, Russ Teig, Pei Qi Chen
  • Grazing systems and pasture management - Jim Russell, Brian Peterson, Craig White, Mark Guge and Ann Cowen
  • Weed research in Iowa - Bob Hartzler, Doug Buhler and Eric Franzenburg
  • Cropping systems - Rick Cruse, Douglas Karlen, Paul Mugge, Jeff Olson, Louis Best and M Ghaffarzedeh
  • Nitrogen management practices for a new generation - Alfred Blackmer, David Briggs, Bob Allen and Ricky Stephenson
  • The future of organic and community supported agriculture in Iowa - Pam Neenan, Shelly Gradwell, Angela Tedesco, Jan Libbey
  • Swine system options - Paul Brown, Homer Showman, Don Struthers and Mark Honeyman
  • Food system vision - Neil Hamilton
  • Water quality research in Iowa - James Baker
  • Impact of N-management systems on groundwater quality - R.S. Kanwar, D.L. Karlen, C.a. Cambardella, T.S. Colvin and C. Pederson
  • Rura/urban issues - Denyse Sturges, Wayne Petersen, George Schaefer and Tom Dunbar
  • ICM and appropriate technology - Mike Duffy, Gary Edwards, Chris Clark and Kurt Johnson
  • Iowa Groundwater Protection Act - David Osterberg and Sue Mullins
• Acknowledgments

Editor's note: Some of the concurrent sessions were panel presentations, others were rountable discussions, and still others were more formal paper presentations. Some speakers elected to provide copies of their papers for this volume, while other sessions relied on note-takers and transcriptionists to summarize their efforts.

Given the differing formats of the concurrent sessions and re cording equipment difficulties, readers will notice varying levels of completeness in the following summaries. Some conepts and meanings may have been lost as a result. Minor editorial revisions have been made in order to smooth the transition from the spoken word to the printed text format.

For these reasons, we ask that no portion of the concurrent sessions summaries be quoted or attributed without the speaker's express permission.