Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture

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
  • To see grant reports from projects just in the Marketing and Food Systems Initiative, go here
  • 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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1999
Project Title Project IDsort icon Completion Year
Field to Family Community Food Project 1998-75 1999
Compensation of farm employees 1998-64 1999
Non-farmer's Guide to Agriculture (Polk County) 1998-57 1999
Botanicals as part of an integral value-added pork production system 1998-52 1999
Wildlife use of terraces in Iowa rowcrop fields 1998-35 1999
Identification and characterization of the Rose Rosette disease causal agent 1998-33 1999
Evaluation of the nitrogen and energy utilization of legume forages by growing cattle and sheet 1998-09 1999
Determining the benefits of environmental improvements in pork production and their sustainability: a community-based study of Iowa's pork industry 1997-52 1999
Pheromone mating disruption: novel, non-toxic control of the European corn borer 1997-19 1999
Incorporating native plant communities on farms for forage and wildlife 1996-74 1999
Evaluation of the impact of tillage/cropping systems on soil microflora and week seedbank predation 1996-34 1999
Biocontrol of Sclerotinia stem rot in soybeans with Sporidesmium sclerotivorum 1996-31 1999
Development of guidelines for application of swine manure to optimize nitrogen management for corn 1996-10 1999
Spring-seeded smother plans for weed control in corn and soybeans 1996-03 1999
Integrated pest management for wireworms 1996-02 1999
Constructed wetlands to reduce agricultural chemical transport to water resources 1995-48 1999
Characterization of the Rose Rosette Disease causal agent: potential for biological control and multiflora rose 1989-16 1999