New research results available on Leopold Center website
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May 16, 2011
AMES, Iowa -- Grapes and greenhouses, dairy cows and prairie insects—these topics represent just a few of 11 recently completed projects sponsored by the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture. Summaries of the research results are now available on the Leopold Center’s website here.
The Leopold Center has funded more than 430 research, education, and demonstration projects since the competitive grant program began in 1988. The program covers four initiatives: Marketing and Food Systems, Ecology, Policy and Cross-cutting.
The 2011 research results are listed by project title below. Click on title to see links to summaries of findings.
Marketing Initiative:
- Pottawattamie County Farm to Fork (Phase III)
- Evaluation of greenhouse gas emissions from three dairy production systems in Iowa--conventional, grazing and combination conventional/grazing
- High-tunnel resource manual and producer resource kit providing the tools for profitability
- Experiential educational engagement with working groups and communities of practice
- A feasibility study for the creation of a meat processing training program in Iowa
Ecology Initiative:
- Optimizing legume establishment in winter cereal grains
- The impact of biodiversity services in row crop production in annual versus perennial landscapes
- Reducing pesticide use in Iowa vineyards: Alternatives to herbicides for vineyard weed management
- Feasibility of unheated large gutter-connect greenhouses for winter organic vegetable production in Iowa
- Distillers Dried Grains (DDG) feeding and impacts on meat quality for grazing steers
Policy Initiative:
To learn more about these projects, check out the summaries and one-page briefs on the website. These documents show major findings, impacts and outreach, condensed from the final project reports submitted by principal investigators. To see a complete report, contact the Leopold Center or the project’s principal investigator.
For more info contact:
Craig Chase, Marketing & Food Systems Initiative coordinator, (515) 294-7836, cchase@iastate.edu
Jeri Neal, Leopold Center Ecology Initiative coordinator, (515) 294-5610, wink@iastate.edu
Mary Adams, Policy Initiative coordinator, (515) 294-5832, madams@iastate.edu
Malcolm Robertson, Cross-Cutting Initiative coordinator, (515) 294-1166, malcolmr@iastate.edu
Laura Miller, Leopold Center Communications, (515) 294-5272, lwmiller@iastate.edu
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