Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture

Current Competitive Grant

Investigating opportunities for enhancing farmer adoption of strategically targeted prairie strips in Iowa

Project ID: P2012-08

This 1-year grant for $15,000 was awarded in 2012.

Location: Statewide

This planning grant aims to transition scientific knowledge gained from the STRIPs experiment (Science-based Trials of Rowcrops Integrated with Prairies) at the Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge into practical use. The investigators will interview project stakeholders and identify potential for establishing a network of demonstration sites, with the goal of identifying practical steps needed to gain widespread support for incorporating targeted prairie strips into the Iowa landscape.

J. Gordon Arbuckle

J. Gordon Arbuckle J. Gordon Arbuckle is an assistant professor in ISU’s Department of Sociology. His research and extension activities focus on improving the social and environmental performance of agriculture. Areas of interest include farm succession, non-operator landownership, watershed management, and agri-environmental policy and practice. He is co-director of the Iowa Farm and Rural Life Poll. [Contact lead investigator]

Co-Investigator(s):

John Tyndall and Tricia Knoot, ISU Natural Resource Ecology and Management


This competitive grant project is part of the Leopold Center's Policy Initiative.

Topics: Conservation practices, Policy, Watershed and ecoregion