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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2008
Project Title Project IDsort icon Completion Year
Local food, local policy: A case study on engaging policy makers in the development of their foodshed PSP2007-03 2008
Fostering an effective green payment program P2003-21 2008
Cooperation: A survival strategy for small and medium-sized farms P2003-16 2008
Taking the next step P2003-15 2008
Growing Farm to ISU: The first five months MSP2007-01 2008
Strengthening the local and regional food system in the Iowa Valley M2007-17 2008
Cash flow and product profitability analysis and improvement for small meat processors M2007-16 2008
Potential to operate greenhouses and aquaculture in conjunction with Iowa's ethanol plants M2007-08 2008
Development of a niche agriculture small business money map and process to disseminate information M2007-06 2008
New food entrepreneurs: Value added enterprises for farm profitability, facilitating understanding between producers, processors and policymakers M2006-23 2008
Determining the methods for measuring the economic and fiscal impacts associated with organic crop conversion in Iowa M2006-12 2008
Investigation of the economic feasibility of pasture-based dairy operations in northwest Iowa M2006-09 2008
Assessing needs and fostering agricultural entrepreneurship among immigrants in several Iowa communities M2006-07 2008
Bridging the gap: What does it take to bring small- and medium-sized producers and retail and foodservice distributors together? M2006-05 2008
Organic, natural and grass-fed beef: Profitability and constraints to production in the Midwestern United States M2005-30 2008
Growing Your Small Market Farm Business Planning Program M2005-19 2008
Business organization and coordination in niche hog marketing M2004-22 2008
Pilot project to identify and measure the relevant costs of production for sustainable agriculture products M2004-05 2008
Reduced stormwater runoff via increased use of rain gardens ESP2007-02 2008
Whiterock Conservancy baseline data project ESP2006-04 2008
Bird nesting on rotationally grazed warm- and cool-season grass paddocks in southern Iowa E2006-05 2008
Integrating hunting and grazing: Loess Hills and south central Iowa on-farm management experiences E2004-43 2008
Developing ecologically sound and profitable alternative fertilizer and manure phosphorus management strategies E2004-29 2008
Integration of natural seed treatments in organic and open-pollinated corn systems E2004-28 2008
Developing potatoes with horizontal resistance to the Colorado potato beetle E2004-26 2008
Pawpaw trial maintenance E2004-23 2008