Completed Competitive Grant

Education based incentive program to enhance long-term adoption of sustainable nutrient/pest management - A demonstration with farmers in northeast Iowa

Project ID: 1997-21

Abstract

The Nutrient and Pest Management Incentive (NPMl) Education program used education to encourage producers to adopt environmentally sound management practices. Participants received small incentive payments to participate in a three-year series of workshops that showed them how to devise nutrient management plans for their own farms.

Lead investigator: Gerald A. Miller, ISU College of Agriculture

Year of grant completion: 2000

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

Topics: Corn-soybean cropping systems, Human systems, demographics and beginning farmer programs

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