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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2010
Project Title Project IDsort icon Completion Year
On-line learning: Using webinars to teach about succession and enterprise development issues XP2009-02 2010
Shaping a functional and sustainable biofuels industry through bridging industrial needs with farmer production capabilities P2009-06 2010
Beginning and mid-size Farm Bill analysis: Policy option development and education initiative P2006-09 2010
Establishing an Iowa Microenterprise Foundation M2008-28 2010
Latino farmers and local multicultural food and marketing systems M2008-27 2010
Strategies to effectively promote and market on-farm retail enterprises M2008-16 2010
Adding a new generation to Iowa's sustainable farms M2008-15 2010
New Farmer Jump Start Project M2008-14 2010
Pottawattamie County Farm to Fork M2008-08 2010
Is the meat goat enterprise profitable and sustainable? M2007-28 2010
Building a direct-to-consumer distribution system in Iowa M2007-19 2010
Tunnels to tables: High tunnel production and distribution model for produce M2007-05 2010
Strategies to stabilize locally grown produce for year-round sales: A feasibility study M2006-21 2010
Iowa recreational property ownership: Identification, contact and social dynamics of multiple-use perennial landcover E2007-19 2010
Participatory ecology for 'Agriculture of the Middle': Developing tools and partnerships to bridge gaps among science, people and policy in landscape change E2006-20 2010
Development and implementation of low-input delivery systems for ethanol co-products in forage-based beef systems E2006-12 2010
New strategies to enhance sustainability of apple orchards E2006-04 2010
Integrated soil and weed management production systems for perennial food crops E2006-02 2010
Sustainable economic development through organic and grazing dairy farm establishment and transition D2007-01 2010