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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2002
Project Titlesort icon Project ID Completion Year
Our rural supermarket: Locally grown foods project 2002-LF 2002
2010
Project Titlesort icon Project ID Completion Year
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
Pottawattamie County Farm to Fork M2008-08 2010
Shaping a functional and sustainable biofuels industry through bridging industrial needs with farmer production capabilities P2009-06 2010
2008
Project Titlesort icon Project ID Completion Year
Pawpaw trial maintenance E2004-23 2008
Pilot project to identify and measure the relevant costs of production for sustainable agriculture products M2004-05 2008
Potential to operate greenhouses and aquaculture in conjunction with Iowa's ethanol plants M2007-08 2008
Reduced stormwater runoff via increased use of rain gardens ESP2007-02 2008
1993
Project Titlesort icon Project ID Completion Year
Pesticides and their major degradation products as potential contaminants of groundwater 1990-39 1993
Poplar tree buffer strips grown in riparian corridors for non-point source pollution control and biomass production 1988-11_1990-75 1993
Reducing pesticide use through environmental monitoring for pest protection 1989-30 1993
Seed coating with environmentally acceptable polymers as an alternative to fungicide treatment of corn and soybeans 1989-01 1993
1999
Project Titlesort icon Project ID Completion Year
Pheromone mating disruption: novel, non-toxic control of the European corn borer 1997-19 1999
2009
Project Titlesort icon Project ID Completion Year
Plan demonstration farm to include farm business incubator and educational use M2006-24 2009
Planning a facility for value-added farm business incubation and educational use M2006-25 2009
Quantifying the role of riparian management to control non-point source pollution of pasture and cropland streams E2004-24 2009
Researching and evaluating an effective web-based local food sales template M2007-31 2009
Safe food handling practices on the farm: Meeting the needs of foodservice operations M2007-36 2009
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
2005
Project Titlesort icon Project ID Completion Year
Planning grant for expansion of Food Alliance ecolabel program in Iowa 2004-M14 2005
1995
Project Titlesort icon Project ID Completion Year
Plant pathogens as biological agents for the control of weeds 1991-32 1995
Potential economic, environmental benefits of narrow strip intercropping 1995-CS 1995
Ramifications of excessive use of soybean resistance to the soybean cyst nematode, Heterodera glycines 1991-31 1995
2011
Project Titlesort icon Project ID Completion Year
Pottawattamie County Farm to Fork (Phase III) M2009-02 2011
Producer machinery and labor sharing arrangements workshops M2008-02 2011
Reducing pesticide use in Iowa vineyards: Alternatives to herbicides for vineyard weed management E2008-18 2011
Research and assistance in support of the Foodsheds in the Upper Midwest Initiative to measure the economic impacts of increased local food production and consumption M2009-07 2011
Routing foods into southeast Iowa M2009-10 2011
1994
Project Titlesort icon Project ID Completion Year
Prediction and field validation of sediment impacts on riffle insect communities 1992-29 1994
Renovation of established switchgrass with forage legumes 1990-08 1994
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
Southeast Iowa on-farm demonstration of sustainable tillage systems and weed profile developments on those systems 1992-11 1996
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
Regional Flavors M2010-23 2012
Renewable energy feed-in tariffs: Potential opportunities for Iowa P2010-02 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
South Central Iowa Area Partnership, local foods network M2010-20 2012
2003
Project Titlesort icon Project ID Completion Year
Reducing anhydrous ammonia application by optimizing distribution 2000-34 2003
Soil amendment effects of crop-weed interactions 2000-11 2003
Soil carbon quality and interactions in Iowa wetlands 2001-47 2003
2007
Project Titlesort icon Project ID Completion Year
Retrospective assessment of landscape, land use change in the Clear Creek Watershed 2004-E08 2007
Small/midsize Iowa farmer marketing, entrepreneurship, business planning training 2005-M06 2007
2000
Project Titlesort icon Project ID Completion Year
Rural regeneration through direct marketing of Audubon County meats 1998-12 2000
1992
Project Titlesort icon Project ID Completion Year
Selection of herbaceous energy crops for sustainable agriculture 1988-01 1992
2001
Project Titlesort icon Project ID Completion Year
Small grain and annual forage legume intercrops for Iowa 1998-68 2001
Socio-technical and environmental dimensions of swine manure management decisions 1999-69 2001
Soil quality, yield stability and economic attributes of alternative crop rotations 1998-05 2001
2004
Project Titlesort icon Project ID Completion Year
Some alternatives for multiple use land management in southern Iowa 2003-P1 2004
2006
Project Titlesort icon Project ID Completion Year
Southwest Iowa Entrepreneurial Center: An achievable product-to-market business model for niche ag producers 2005-M13 2006