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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2011
Project Title	Project ID	Completion Year
Toward a new Homestead Act: Designing a farmstead transfer and leasing program for high-value farming and farmstead preservation	XP2010-02	2011
Transitioning the Pork Niche Market Working Group to self-sufficiency	M2010-16	2011
Update of the Iowa Produce Market Potential Calculator website	M2009-01	2011

2001
Project Title	Project ID	Completion Year
Toxicity of pesticides adsorbed to suspended sediment to larval fish in the Cedar River	1998-80	2001
Transferring biological control technology to Iowa strawberry growers	1996-77	2001
Use of intra-field alfalfa trap cropping for management of the potato leafhopper	1998-43	2001

1994
Project Title	Project ID	Completion Year
Transformation and fate of nitrate and atrazine in freshwater wetlands	1990-63	1994

2010
Project Title	Project ID	Completion Year
Tunnels to tables: High tunnel production and distribution model for produce	M2007-05	2010

2004
Project Title	Project ID	Completion Year
Understanding the potential of phosphorus transport to water resources via leaching	2002-40	2004
Winter grazing of corn residues: Effects on soil properties and subsequent crop yields from a corn-soybean crop rotation	2000-35	2004

1995
Project Title	Project ID	Completion Year
Use of planting date to avoid injury from soybean insect pests	1991-09	1995
Wildlife use of and productivity in diverted cropland	1992-24	1995

2007
Project Title	Project ID	Completion Year
Using contracts to expand produce market opportunities	2005-M18	2007
Women, land and legacy: Agricultural policy for changing landownership	2006-P10	2007

1993
Project Title	Project ID	Completion Year
Utilizing an entomopathogenic fungus, Beauveria bassiana, for season-long suppression of larval populations of the European corn borer	1988-12	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

2009
Project Title	Project ID	Completion Year
Variations in water and nutrient cycling and soil properties during agricultural landscape restoration	2004-E14	2009

2006
Project Title	Project ID	Completion Year
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
Winter grazing of stockpiled grass-legume forages to reduce costs of developing beef heifers	2004-E35	2006

2008
Project Title	Project ID	Completion Year
Whiterock Conservancy baseline data project	ESP2006-04	2008

1999
Project Title	Project ID	Completion Year
Wildlife use of terraces in Iowa rowcrop fields	1998-35	1999

2000
Project Title	Project ID	Completion Year
Youth and conservation methods	1999-58	2000