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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2006
Project Title	Project ID	Completion Year
Alternative farrowing systems during cold weather	2003-E29	2006
A study of place-based food tourism in northeast Iowa communities	2005-MSP01	2006

2002
Project Title	Project ID	Completion Year
Alternative and horticulture crop education and marketing pilot project	1999-56	2002

2011
Project Title	Project ID	Completion Year
Agronomic, ecological and economic comparisons of conventional and low-external-input cropping systems	E2007-09	2011
Adapting land retirement programs in response to Iowa's changing economy	EP2007-30	2011
A food distribution network for the Northern Iowa Food and Farm Partnership	M2009-19	2011
A feasibility study for the creation of a meat processing training program in Iowa	M2009-28	2011

2004
Project Title	Project ID	Completion Year
Agronomic and environmental soil testing for phosphorus and threshold levels in soils	2001-11	2004

1995
Project Title	Project ID	Completion Year
Agriculture's impact on the living soil	1992-37	1995

1997
Project Title	Project ID	Completion Year
Agriculture and science teaching link	1996-23	1997
Agricultural chemical dealers: Shifting from selling products to services	1997-ECEDT	1997

1996
Project Title	Project ID	Completion Year
Agriculture and science link through the Living Soil	1995-09	1996

2010
Project Title	Project ID	Completion Year
Adding a new generation to Iowa's sustainable farms	M2008-15	2010

1994
Project Title	Project ID	Completion Year
Adapting predictive models to reduce fungicide sprays on tomatoes in Iowa	1990-16	1994
A comparison of agricultural systems at the Allee Research Center	1988-09 and 1991-36	1994
A biorational approach to soybean cyst nematode management in Iowa	1990-31	1994

1992
Project Title	Project ID	Completion Year
A wood-fired furnace and timber management research and demonstration system	1988-08	1992

1993
Project Title	Project ID	Completion Year
A sustainable agriculture course delivered nationally via AG*SAT	1989-41	1993
A developmental approach to the adoption of low-input farming practices	1989-35	1993
"Full Circle Forestry" in southeast Iowa	1989-34	1993

2007
Project Title	Project ID	Completion Year
A survey of broilers from organic, free-range and conventional systems for cooked meat yields, composition, relative value	2006-M01	2007

2009
Project Title	Project ID	Completion Year
A study of the factors that influence consumer attitudes towards beef products using the conjoint market analysis tool	M2005-27	2009

2001
Project Title	Project ID	Completion Year
A simple method to increase alfalfa yields in the establishment year	2000-47	2001