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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1993
Project Title Project IDsort icon Completion Year
Optimizing microbial associations to enhance nitrogen and potassium soil nutrient availability 1989-18 1993
Incorporating environmental costs into economic injury levels 1989-17 1993
Seed coating with environmentally acceptable polymers as an alternative to fungicide treatment of corn and soybeans 1989-01 1993
Biological control of the strawberry leaf roller, Ancylis comptana, in Iowa 1988-13 1993
Utilizing an entomopathogenic fungus, Beauveria bassiana, for season-long suppression of larval populations of the European corn borer 1988-12 1993
Poplar tree buffer strips grown in riparian corridors for non-point source pollution control and biomass production 1988-11_1990-75 1993
1999
Project Title Project IDsort icon Completion Year
Characterization of the Rose Rosette Disease causal agent: potential for biological control and multiflora rose 1989-16 1999
1992
Project Title Project IDsort icon Completion Year
On-farm demonstration program to reduce energy consumption and environmental impacts from row crop production 1988-25 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
Evaluation for an integrated pest management program for northern corn rootworm extended diapause 1988-18 1992
Nitrogen management alternatives for ridge tillage corn 1988-17 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
Tillage and crop rotation system demonstration for energy and environmental efficiency 1988-10 1992
A wood-fired furnace and timber management research and demonstration system 1988-08 1992
Effect of split N-fertilizer applications on drainage water quality and NO3-N leaching 1988-07 1992
Strip intercropping systems 1988-05_1988-06 1992
DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge demonstration and education project 1988-04 1992
Demonstration of the unique slow-release characteristic of anhydrous ammonia fertilizer 1988-03 1992
Nitrate and herbicide leaching as affected by conservation tillage 1988-02 1992
Selection of herbaceous energy crops for sustainable agriculture 1988-01 1992
1994
Project Title Project IDsort icon Completion Year
A comparison of agricultural systems at the Allee Research Center 1988-09 and 1991-36 1994