Current Competitive Grant

Increasing Iowa farmers' resiliency through the Practical Farmers of Iowa (PFI) cooperators' program

Project ID: XP2011-01

This 3-year grant for $150,000 was awarded in 2011.

Location: Statewide

This project is focused on supporting the PFI Cooperators’ Program, through which Iowa farmers in conjunction with PFI staff and academic researchers investigate farmers’ most pressing on-farm research and demonstration questions. Farmers set their research and demonstration priorities, and PFI staff help them follow up on investigating those priorities through a variety of research, demonstration, and record-keeping projects.

Teresa Opheim

Teresa Opheim joined Practical Farmers of Iowa as its Executive Director in 2006. She serves as the primary liaison with the PFI Board of Directors and works hard to keep PFI's programming useful its members. She also oversees the organization's fiscal health and growth and manages the PFI staff.

This competitive grant project is part of the Leopold Center's Cross-Cutting Initiative.

The Leopold Center was established by the 1987 Iowa Groundwater Protection Act as a research and education center at Iowa State University to develop sustainable agricultural practices that are both profitable and conserve natural resources. Iowa State does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, age, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, sex, marital status, disability, or status as a U.S. Vietnam Era Veteran. Any persons having inquiries concerning this may contact the Director of Affirmative Action, 3210 Beardshear Hall, (515) 294-7612.

This page was found at http://www.leopold.iastate.edu/grants/xp2011-01 on 01/20/2013