Completed Grants

This is where you will find all of our grant reports. The Leopold Center has operated a competitive grants program since 1988, funding more than 420 Iowa-based projects in every county in Iowa.

The most recently completed projects are listed first. Click on the title to see the abstract, key findings and links to printable summaries of findings from each project. For more details about a project than what is included in the project summary documents, contact the lead investigator (email address is in the longer project summary).

To see grant reports from projects just in the Ecology Initiative, go here
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To see grant reports from projects just in the Policy Initiative, go here
To see grant reports from the Cross-Cutting Initiative, go here
Grant reports from earlier projects not part of any initiative are on the list that starts below.

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1994
Project Title	Project ID	Completion Year
Transformation and fate of nitrate and atrazine in freshwater wetlands	1990-63	1994
The Model Farms Demonstration Project	1990-71	1994
Sustainable tree-shrub-grass buffer strips along waterways	1990-07	1994
Sustainable agriculture: Vision for the future	1992-31	1994
Sustainable agriculture and wildlife: a multi-organizational field day	1992-23	1994
Species and variety of conifers for Christmas tree production in Iowa	1990-04	1994
Renovation of established switchgrass with forage legumes	1990-08	1994
Prediction and field validation of sediment impacts on riffle insect communities	1992-29	1994
Oak regeneration response to thinning from below	1990-02	1994
Improved disease resistance in dairy cattle: Correlation of health disorders with measures of immune status; and Genetic improvement of disease resistance by identifying sires whose daughters have fewer disease problems	1990-05 and 1992-04	1994
Fall-planted spring oats: A low-risk cover crop to reduce erosion following soybean	1990-10	1994
Evaluation of tillage and crop rotation effects on groundwater quality	1990-41	1994
Environmental effects of two contrasting farming systems in the Clarion-Nicollet-Webster soil association area	1990-14	1994
Economic analysis of chemical versus biological suppression of the European corn borer in Iowa corn production	1991-38	1994
Des Moines and Henry County field trials of corn rootworm beetle traps	1991-06	1994
Buffer strips for controlling herbicide losses	1991-15	1994
Bird use of restored wetlands on Conservation Reserve Program land	1991-33	1994
Adapting predictive models to reduce fungicide sprays on tomatoes in Iowa	1990-16	1994
A comparison of agricultural systems at the Allee Research Center	1988-09 and 1991-36	1994
A biorational approach to soybean cyst nematode management in Iowa	1990-31	1994