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 looks at ways to transfer scientific knowledge gained from the STRIPs (Science-based Trials of Rowcrops Integrated with Prairies) project at the Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge. The investigators will interview project stakeholders and identify potential ways 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 Drake Larsen, 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