New project results available on Leopold Center website

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AMES, Iowa -- Summaries of three recently completed competitive grant projects are now available on the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture’s website.
 
Kim Greder, ISU Extension, led a Marketing Initiative project to help families in Cass County, Iowa connect with their local food system. Through interviews, workshops, field trips and cooking sessions, the investigators identified and began to address the barriers to purchasing local food, which ranged from affordability and accessibility to simply knowing what to do with an eggplant. Learn more at: www.leopold.iastate.edu/grants/m2010-30.
 
In another Marketing Initiative project, local food coordinators with Pathfinders RC&D worked with producers in southeast Iowa to gauge their interest in combining marketing efforts and incorporating into a single group. They identified establishing trust and having a dedicated administrator as major requirements for successful cooperation. Learn more at: www.leopold.iastate.edu/grants/m2011-15
 
Finally, the results from an Ecology Initiative project show that reconstructed prairies have promise as a future biofuel crop, comparing favorably to corn in terms of biomass, nitrate loss and greenhouse gas emissions. The project, led by Robert Horton, ISU Agronomy, and Tom Sauer, USDA-ARS National Laboratory for Agriculture and the Environment, expands ongoing work at the Comparison of Biofuel Systems (COBS) site in Boone County, Iowa. Learn more at: www.leopold.iastate.edu/grants/e2009-18
 
Find these and other completed grant summaries on the web at: www.leopold.iastate.edu/grants/completed
 
The Leopold Center has funded more than 480 competitive grant projects since 1988 under four initiatives: Marketing and Food Systems, Ecology, Policy and Cross-Cutting.
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