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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2000
Project Titlesort icon Project ID Completion Year
Youth and conservation methods 1999-58 2000
2007
Project Titlesort icon Project ID Completion Year
Women, land and legacy: Agricultural policy for changing landownership 2006-P10 2007
Using contracts to expand produce market opportunities 2005-M18 2007
The role of collaborative community supported agriculture: Lessons from Iowa 2005-M01 2007
Taste of Place: Place-based foods in Iowa 2005-M02 2007
Taste of Place Project, Phase II: Outreach 2006-M13 2007
2006
Project Titlesort icon Project ID Completion Year
Winter grazing of stockpiled grass-legume forages to reduce costs of developing beef heifers 2004-E35 2006
Web-based interactive decision model for determining economic feasibility of growing grapes and establishing a small winery for wine and grape juice 2004-M16 2006
The role of herbaceous woodland perennial diversity for improving nutrient uptake capacity of riparian areas 2004-E04 2006
Sustaining agricultural producers through direct marketing of processed foods 2002-16 2006
Sustainable and Entrepreneurial Agriculture Program at Marshalltown Community College 2004-MSP07 2006
2004
Project Titlesort icon Project ID Completion Year
Winter grazing of corn residues: Effects on soil properties and subsequent crop yields from a corn-soybean crop rotation 2000-35 2004
Understanding the potential of phosphorus transport to water resources via leaching 2002-40 2004
The value of filter strips for grassland bird communities 2002-04 2004
The effects of thrips on strawberry production in Iowa 2002-47 2004
1999
Project Titlesort icon Project ID Completion Year
Wildlife use of terraces in Iowa rowcrop fields 1998-35 1999
1995
Project Titlesort icon Project ID Completion Year
Wildlife use of and productivity in diverted cropland 1992-24 1995
Use of planting date to avoid injury from soybean insect pests 1991-09 1995
2008
Project Titlesort icon Project ID Completion Year
Whiterock Conservancy baseline data project ESP2006-04 2008
Taking the next step P2003-15 2008
1993
Project Titlesort icon Project ID Completion Year
Weed population dynamics in ridge-tilled soybeans with and without herbicides 1989-19 1993
Utilizing potential weed pressures to improve efficiency of weed management programs 1990-20 1993
Utilizing an entomopathogenic fungus, Beauveria bassiana, for season-long suppression of larval populations of the European corn borer 1988-12 1993
Sustainable weed control system using natural product allelochemicals to replace conventional herbicides in maize 1989-27 1993
2009
Project Titlesort icon Project ID Completion Year
Variations in water and nutrient cycling and soil properties during agricultural landscape restoration 2004-E14 2009
The role of herbaceous woodland perennial diversity for improving nutrient uptake of riparian areas E2006-03 2009
2001
Project Titlesort icon Project ID Completion Year
Use of intra-field alfalfa trap cropping for management of the potato leafhopper 1998-43 2001
Transferring biological control technology to Iowa strawberry growers 1996-77 2001
Toxicity of pesticides adsorbed to suspended sediment to larval fish in the Cedar River 1998-80 2001
Together in Tough Times 2001-TT 2001
The effects of transgenic soybeans and associated herbicide treatment upon soil-surface mesofauna 1999-29 2001
2011
Project Titlesort icon Project ID Completion Year
Update of the Iowa Produce Market Potential Calculator website M2009-01 2011
Transitioning the Pork Niche Market Working Group to self-sufficiency M2010-16 2011
Toward a new Homestead Act: Designing a farmstead transfer and leasing program for high-value farming and farmstead preservation XP2010-02 2011
The Landowners' Decision: Grazing and fire as management tools on Iowa grasslands and oak savannas E2007-05 2011
The impact of biodiversity services in row crop production in annual verses perennial landscapes E2006-13 2011
The actual cost of food systems on roadway infrastructure M2009-15 2011
2010
Project Titlesort icon Project ID Completion Year
Tunnels to tables: High tunnel production and distribution model for produce M2007-05 2010
Sustainable economic development through organic and grazing dairy farm establishment and transition D2007-01 2010
1994
Project Titlesort icon Project ID Completion Year
Transformation and fate of nitrate and atrazine in freshwater wetlands 1990-63 1994
The Model Farms Demonstration Project 1990-71 1994
Sustainable tree-shrub-grass buffer strips along waterways 1990-07 1994
Sustainable agriculture: Vision for the future 1992-31 1994
1992
Project Titlesort icon Project ID Completion Year
Tillage and crop rotation system demonstration for energy and environmental efficiency 1988-10 1992
1996
Project Titlesort icon Project ID Completion Year
The effect of organic versus chemical fertilizers on insect pathogens 1992-18 1996
Sustaining Iowa soybean production through education about soybean cyst nematode 1993-12 1996
1997
Project Titlesort icon Project ID Completion Year
The cereal leaf beetle in Iowa oats: Research and education program for biological control and sustainable management practices 1993-16 1997
Swine system options for Iowa: A catalyst for change 1997-CONF 1997
2012
Project Titlesort icon Project ID Completion Year
Systems model and prototype development to capture and use rain water run-off from a high tunnel E2011-14 2012
2005
Project Titlesort icon Project ID Completion Year
Sustainable grape production for the reestablishment of Iowa's grape industry 2002-46 2005