Completed Competitive Grant

Iowa Lakes Controlled Grazing, Inc. (ILCG) project

Project ID: 1995-13

Abstract

Through the efforts of the Iowa Lakes Controlled Grazing, Inc. (ILCG) project, producers in four northwest Iowa counties learned more about how management intensive grazing and other alternative practices could be used to increase their profits and preserve environmental quality.

Lead investigator: Dennis L. DeWitt, ISU Extension, et al

Year of grant completion: 2000

This competitive grant project was part of the Leopold Center's Initiative.

Topics: Animal management and forage, Economic and environmental impacts, Farmer profitability, enterprise budgets

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