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 Titlesort icon Project ID Completion Year
Reduced stormwater runoff via increased use of rain gardens ESP2007-02 2008
Potential to operate greenhouses and aquaculture in conjunction with Iowa's ethanol plants M2007-08 2008
Pilot project to identify and measure the relevant costs of production for sustainable agriculture products M2004-05 2008
Pawpaw trial maintenance E2004-23 2008
Organic, natural and grass-fed beef: Profitability and constraints to production in the Midwestern United States M2005-30 2008
New food entrepreneurs: Value added enterprises for farm profitability, facilitating understanding between producers, processors and policymakers M2006-23 2008
1995
Project Titlesort icon Project ID Completion Year
Ramifications of excessive use of soybean resistance to the soybean cyst nematode, Heterodera glycines 1991-31 1995
Potential economic, environmental benefits of narrow strip intercropping 1995-CS 1995
Plant pathogens as biological agents for the control of weeds 1991-32 1995
2009
Project Titlesort icon Project ID Completion Year
Quantifying the role of riparian management to control non-point source pollution of pasture and cropland streams E2004-24 2009
Planning a facility for value-added farm business incubation and educational use M2006-25 2009
Plan demonstration farm to include farm business incubator and educational use M2006-24 2009
Organic agriculture program viability study M2007-03 2009
Northeast Iowa local food survey summary report RWG2007-01 2009
Native cover crops and timing of planting: Effects on 15N uptake, weed invasion and prairie establishment E2006-11 2009
2012
Project Titlesort icon Project ID Completion Year
Quantifying eastern red cedar (Juniperus virginiana) in southern Iowa: A starting point for conversations with landowners about threats to grassland resilience E2011-13 2012
Optimizing buffer strips for improved ecosystem services E2009-09 2012
1996
Project Titlesort icon Project ID Completion Year
Production of a videotape series to promote forage-based livestock production in the Upper Midwest 1995-04 1996
Native willow stream-bank plantings: a local resource to control erosion and provide an acceptable alternative riparian planting technique 1992-09 1996
2011
Project Titlesort icon Project ID Completion Year
Producer machinery and labor sharing arrangements workshops M2008-02 2011
Pottawattamie County Farm to Fork (Phase III) M2009-02 2011
Optimizing legume establishment in winter cereal grains E2006-10 2011
1994
Project Titlesort icon Project ID Completion Year
Prediction and field validation of sediment impacts on riffle insect communities 1992-29 1994
Oak regeneration response to thinning from below 1990-02 1994
2010
Project Titlesort icon Project ID Completion Year
Pottawattamie County Farm to Fork M2008-08 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
On-line learning: Using webinars to teach about succession and enterprise development issues XP2009-02 2010
New strategies to enhance sustainability of apple orchards E2006-04 2010
New Farmer Jump Start Project M2008-14 2010
1993
Project Titlesort icon Project ID Completion Year
Poplar tree buffer strips grown in riparian corridors for non-point source pollution control and biomass production 1988-11_1990-75 1993
Pesticides and their major degradation products as potential contaminants of groundwater 1990-39 1993
Optimizing microbial associations to enhance nitrogen and potassium soil nutrient availability 1989-18 1993
Operating procedures for use of the late-spring soil test by fertilizer dealers and consultants in Iowa 1989-28 1993
Multispecies toxicity tests using indigenous stream organisms: predicting pesticide effects in streams 1990-37 1993
2005
Project Titlesort icon Project ID Completion Year
Planning grant for expansion of Food Alliance ecolabel program in Iowa 2004-M14 2005
1997
Project Titlesort icon Project ID Completion Year
Planning for a residential agricultural and environmental education program at the Iowa 4-H Education and Natural Resources Center 1996-30 1997
1999
Project Titlesort icon Project ID Completion Year
Pheromone mating disruption: novel, non-toxic control of the European corn borer 1997-19 1999
Non-farmer's Guide to Agriculture (Polk County) 1998-57 1999
2002
Project Titlesort icon Project ID Completion Year
Our rural supermarket: Locally grown foods project 2002-LF 2002
Organic farming demonstration project - eastern Iowa 1999-21 2002
Nontarget effects of Bt corn on pathogenic and toxigenic fungi 2000-29 2002
2003
Project Titlesort icon Project ID Completion Year
Optimizing swine hoop manure management of soil quality and crop system performance 2000-42 2003
2004
Project Titlesort icon Project ID Completion Year
Optimizing solid manure application by improving distribution 2001-24 2004
1992
Project Titlesort icon Project ID Completion Year
Optimal efficiency in the use of Iowa's energy, soil and feed resources for beef production 1988-14 1992
On-farm demonstration program to reduce energy consumption and environmental impacts from row crop production 1988-25 1992
Nitrogen management alternatives for ridge tillage corn 1988-17 1992
Nitrogen efficiency with no-till and conventional tillage cropping systems for energy conservation and water quality benefits 1988-20 1992
Nitrate and herbicide leaching as affected by conservation tillage 1988-02 1992
2001
Project Titlesort icon Project ID Completion Year
Nitrogen conservation in swine manure composting land 1999-62 2001
2007
Project Titlesort icon Project ID Completion Year
Naming and graphing entrepreneurial and community based agriculture linkages 2004-M04 2007