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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2012
Project Title Project IDsort icon Completion Year
Educational presentation on reducing fossil fuel needs on Iowa’s small to mid-sized farms XPSP2011-02 2012
Meeting on-farm energy needs through conservation, efficiency and renewable energy XP2009-01 2012
Renewable energy feed-in tariffs: Potential opportunities for Iowa P2010-02 2012
Credit, crop insurance and sustainable agriculture P2009-07 2012
In good company M2011-15 2012
Iowa immigrant and refugee incubator farm program M2011-13 2012
Connecting family, community and health from a food system perspective M2010-30 2012
Regional Flavors M2010-23 2012
South Central Iowa Area Partnership, local foods network M2010-20 2012
Impacts of GAPs and post-harvest handling practices certificate training on producers' on-farm food safety behaviors and perceptions of customer assurance M2010-14 2012
Mapping potential foodsheds in Iowa: A system optimization modeling approach M2010-04 2012
Building a food system framework to advance the health of Iowans - A blueprint for action M2010-02 2012
Developing production, processing and marketing of aronia berries on small family farms in southeast Iowa M2009-05 2012
Systems model and prototype development to capture and use rain water run-off from a high tunnel E2011-14 2012
Quantifying eastern red cedar (Juniperus virginiana) in southern Iowa: A starting point for conversations with landowners about threats to grassland resilience E2011-13 2012
Defining the grazing season of restored natural grasslands E2010-19 2012
Increasing carbon sequestration of working prairie by reducing invasive species in a fire and grazing system E2010-16 2012
Assessment of woody biomass as a niche feedstock for biobased products in Iowa E2009-26 2012
Conversion to perennial vegetation: Quantifying soil water regime, aeration, and implications for enhancing soil resilience to climate change E2009-18 2012
Evaluating denitrifying bioreactors for edge-of-field nitrogen management in Iowa's tile-drained landsacpes E2009-11 2012
Optimizing buffer strips for improved ecosystem services E2009-09 2012
Site specific implementation of practices that alter the spatial/temporal distribution of grazing cattle to improve water quality of pasture streams in the Rathbun Lake watershed E2009-08 2012
Soil moisture dynamics and plant transpiration under contrasting annual-perennial cover types E2008-17 2012