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).

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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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1992
Project Title	Project ID	Completion Year
Nitrate and herbicide leaching as affected by conservation tillage	1988-02	1992
Effect of split N-fertilizer applications on drainage water quality and NO3-N leaching	1988-07	1992
Demonstration of the unique slow-release characteristic of anhydrous ammonia fertilizer	1988-03	1992
Nitrogen efficiency with no-till and conventional tillage cropping systems for energy conservation and water quality benefits	1988-20	1992
Monitoring and modeling cropping system nitrogen for a sustainable agriculture	1988-19	1992
Tillage and crop rotation system demonstration for energy and environmental efficiency	1988-10	1992
On-farm demonstration program to reduce energy consumption and environmental impacts from row crop production	1988-25	1992
A wood-fired furnace and timber management research and demonstration system	1988-08	1992
Selection of herbaceous energy crops for sustainable agriculture	1988-01	1992
Strip intercropping systems	1988-05_1988-06	1992
Nitrogen management alternatives for ridge tillage corn	1988-17	1992
Evaluation for an integrated pest management program for northern corn rootworm extended diapause	1988-18	1992
Irrigation and disease management of vegetables	1988-16	1992
Optimal efficiency in the use of Iowa's energy, soil and feed resources for beef production	1988-14	1992
DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge demonstration and education project	1988-04	1992

1993
Project Title	Project ID	Completion Year
Efficient herbicide application to reduce environmental losses	1989-22	1993
Pesticides and their major degradation products as potential contaminants of groundwater	1990-39	1993
Establishment of an experimental wetland research complex	1989-40	1993
Multispecies toxicity tests using indigenous stream organisms: predicting pesticide effects in streams	1990-37	1993
Effectiveness of vegetative filter strips	1990-09	1993
Utilizing an entomopathogenic fungus, Beauveria bassiana, for season-long suppression of larval populations of the European corn borer	1988-12	1993
Incorporating environmental costs into economic injury levels	1989-17	1993
Reducing pesticide use through environmental monitoring for pest protection	1989-30	1993
Biological control of the strawberry leaf roller, Ancylis comptana, in Iowa	1988-13	1993
Utilizing potential weed pressures to improve efficiency of weed management programs	1990-20	1993
Weed population dynamics in ridge-tilled soybeans with and without herbicides	1989-19	1993
Sustainable weed control system using natural product allelochemicals to replace conventional herbicides in maize	1989-27	1993
Corn tissue tests for excess phosphorus and potassium	1991-45	1993
Implementing nitrogen management to protect Iowa's groundwater	1990-28	1993
Operating procedures for use of the late-spring soil test by fertilizer dealers and consultants in Iowa	1989-28	1993
Optimizing microbial associations to enhance nitrogen and potassium soil nutrient availability	1989-18	1993
Poplar tree buffer strips grown in riparian corridors for non-point source pollution control and biomass production	1988-11_1990-75	1993
"Full Circle Forestry" in southeast Iowa	1989-34	1993
Bird use of roadsides in an agricultural system	1990-29	1993
Storm Lake watershed demonstration project: planning phase	1990-36	1993
Seed coating with environmentally acceptable polymers as an alternative to fungicide treatment of corn and soybeans	1989-01	1993
Crops of ancient Iowa: Native plant use and farming systems	1990-34	1993
Changes in soil structural characteristics following establishment of prairie grass	1990-46	1993
A developmental approach to the adoption of low-input farming practices	1989-35	1993
A sustainable agriculture course delivered nationally via AG*SAT	1989-41	1993

1994
Project Title	Project ID	Completion Year
The Model Farms Demonstration Project	1990-71	1994
Sustainable agriculture: Vision for the future	1992-31	1994
Sustainable agriculture and wildlife: a multi-organizational field day	1992-23	1994
Des Moines and Henry County field trials of corn rootworm beetle traps	1991-06	1994
Buffer strips for controlling herbicide losses	1991-15	1994
Sustainable tree-shrub-grass buffer strips along waterways	1990-07	1994
Evaluation of tillage and crop rotation effects on groundwater quality	1990-41	1994
Transformation and fate of nitrate and atrazine in freshwater wetlands	1990-63	1994
Adapting predictive models to reduce fungicide sprays on tomatoes in Iowa	1990-16	1994
A biorational approach to soybean cyst nematode management in Iowa	1990-31	1994