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.

2010-2011 Annual Report: Perseverance

Annual Report Cover

Samuel Adams, sometimes referred to as the “father of the American Revolution,” offered these ageless words of wisdom during a year that posed many challenges for the Leopold Center:

“The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude and perseverance.”

This annual report showcases the Leopold Center’s accomplishments, some quite out of the ordinary and all attributed to perseverance. An illustrated timeline commemorates important events in the Center’s 25-year history.

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: Leopold Center ‘perseverance’ celebrated in FY2011 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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