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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2001
Project Title Project IDsort icon Completion Year
Transferring biological control technology to Iowa strawberry growers 1996-77 2001
Soil quality, yield stability and economic attributes of alternative crop rotations 1998-05 2001
Community and economic regeneration through strengthening the local food economy 1998-13 2001
Ecology and restoration of farmland woods in central Iowa 1998-21 2001
Biological control and sustainable horticulture principles of Iowa's vocational agriculture curriculum 1998-24 2001
Evaluation of three cropping systems grown under the influence of a shelterbelt 1998-26 2001
Development and implementation of cost-effective fertilization and tillage management alternatives for improving soil quality in corn-soybean rotations 1998-36 2001
Use of intra-field alfalfa trap cropping for management of the potato leafhopper 1998-43 2001
Biologically intensive pest management: Iowa apple growers take the next step toward sustainability 1998-45 2001
Statewide manure management education initiative 1998-51 2001
Small grain and annual forage legume intercrops for Iowa 1998-68 2001
Evaluation of forage plants collected from permanent pastures throughout Iowa 1998-69 2001
Manipulation of predatory insects for enhanced biological control of insect pests 1998-72 2001
Toxicity of pesticides adsorbed to suspended sediment to larval fish in the Cedar River 1998-80 2001
Dairy manure quantification and characterization in grazing systems 1999-16 2001
The effects of transgenic soybeans and associated herbicide treatment upon soil-surface mesofauna 1999-29 2001
Nitrogen conservation in swine manure composting land 1999-62 2001
Socio-technical and environmental dimensions of swine manure management decisions 1999-69 2001
Development of alternative carriers for use of Beauveria Bassiana in Ostrinia nubilalis suppression on corn 1999-75 2001
Botanicals as part of an integrated value-added pork production system 2000-37 2001
A simple method to increase alfalfa yields in the establishment year 2000-47 2001
Genetic diversity and performance of oat variety blends 2000-50 2001
Building Hope in the Heartland: a training program 2001-HH 2001
Together in Tough Times 2001-TT 2001