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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2007
Project Title Project IDsort icon Completion Year
Women, land and legacy: Agricultural policy for changing landownership 2006-P10 2007
Farm Bill listening sessions 2006-P01 2007
Taste of Place Project, Phase II: Outreach 2006-M13 2007
Case studies and benchmark transaction costs for select food products 2006-M02 2007
A survey of broilers from organic, free-range and conventional systems for cooked meat yields, composition, relative value 2006-M01 2007
Devising a framework for implementing cattle-grazing, fire on grassland in southern Iowa 2006-E18 2007
Assessing the market potential for goat meat among recent immigrants to Siouxland 2005-M33 2007
Market Maker for Iowa 2005-M29 2007
Using contracts to expand produce market opportunities 2005-M18 2007
Economic viability of local food marketing for Iowa restaurants, growers/producers 2005-M17 2007
Development of a rural wine culture in Iowa 2005-M14 2007
Small/midsize Iowa farmer marketing, entrepreneurship, business planning training 2005-M06 2007
Sustainable agriculture, marketing, entrepreneurship, and business planning skills 2005-M03 2007
Taste of Place: Place-based foods in Iowa 2005-M02 2007
The role of collaborative community supported agriculture: Lessons from Iowa 2005-M01 2007
Naming and graphing entrepreneurial and community based agriculture linkages 2004-M04 2007
Assessment of triticale varieties for swine feeding performance, late planting 2004-E27 2007
Retrospective assessment of landscape, land use change in the Clear Creek Watershed 2004-E08 2007
Life in Iowa Homecoming Institute 2003-M02 2007
Economically sustainable riparian buffer to promote bank stability and reduce gully erosion and phosphorus runoff in the Loess Hills 2002-E30 2007