Completed Competitive Grant

Evaluation of interactions within a shelterbelt agroecosystem

Project ID: 1997-53

Abstract

Yield data for corn (eight years) and soybeans (six years) were collected and analyzed to determine the impacts of a hybrid poplar shelterbelt on crop production on a central Iowa farm.

Lead investigator: Carl W. Mize, ISU Forestry, et al

Year of grant completion: 2000

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

Topics: Agroforestry, Conservation practices

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