Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture

Leopold Center Annual Report

The Leopold Center produces non-technical, illustrated reports with yearly summaries of all major programs sponsored by the Center. Request the current year's annual report from the Leopold Center by calling (515) 294-3711, or signing up for to receive our materials on a regular basis.

All Annual Reports in this archive are in PDF format. Larger documents may have been split into several files for easier downloading, although photo quality will vary. The amount of time to download these files will depend on your connection to the Web. To download and install Acrobat Reader, visit Adobe's Web site.

2011-2012 Annual Report: A New Day

Annual Report Cover

After two years without a permanent director, when the Leopold Center staff sometimes felt betwixt and between several temporal planes, the second official search process yielded a new leader in Mark Rasmussen. Such times bring to mind words from Aldo Leopold’s essay, “Wisconsin – Marshland Elegy.”

On motionless wing they emerge from the lifting mists, sweep a final arc of sky, and settle in clangorous descending spirals to their feeding grounds. A new day has begun on the crane marsh.

In the links below are

  1. General activities of the Center, staff, advisory board and finances
  2. What's happening in each of the Center's program initiatives of ecology, marketing and food systems, policy and cross-cutting, and
  3. Descriptions of the Center's long-running competitive grants (new and renewed) during the year.

NEWS RELEASE: It’s ‘A New Day' in Leopold Center 2012 Annual Report

For easier downloading, the report is split into three sections. Download time will vary depending on your Internet connection.

Full Report (PDF)

Part 1 (PDF)
Part 2 (PDF)
Part 3 (PDF)

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